Make: Calculus book is out!

 Listen to our interview on the MAKE podcast.

https://makezine.com/article/education/a-better-way-to-learn-calculus/

 

You can purchase the book in the Maker Shed or other retailers. Demo of the models here: https://youtu.be/a0v4fUSFl2U

LinkedIn Learning Additive Manufacturing Series

 

Check out our series from LinkedIn Learning, Additive Manufacturing: Tips, Tricks and Techniques.

Learn more about topics from consumer-level tips for your printer up through state-of-the art-tech, with frequent additions of new episodes!

https://www.linkedin.com/learning/additive-manufacturing-tips-tricks-and-techniques/

Classes for gifted kids at IEA Online!

 

Deadline Jan 4! We're teaching gifted kids online again spring term (starts last week of January 2021) through

Institute for Educational Advancement.

Check out our courses, both offered Monday afternoons:

 
Medieval Battle Tech (ages 9-12) Students learn about 14th-century technology, politics and strategy. Then they design (using CAD and a 3D printer) historically-plausible secret weapons. We role-play relitigating the battle of Agincourt and others with the "secret weapons."

 

Hacker Geometry (ages 10-14) Hands on geometry with a bit of astrononomy and physics mixed in, and some 3D printing. 

 

For both courses, IEA will create prints if students don't have their own printer.

Sign up: https://educationaladvancement.org/programs/iea-academy/

Fun video we did for Apress!

Here's a fun little video we did for Apress about our books for beginners. You can find all our books on Amazon here and at Apress.com.

Learn about 3D printing (and calculus) this summer!

Check out our various 3D printing classes and activities for adults this summer in our LinkedIn piece.

In a bit of a departure for us, we'll be teaching calculus based on our Hacker Calculus 3D prints at Institute for Educational Advancement in Pasadena in July. The course is intended for gifted students age 12-14. More info and sign up here.

April/May exhibits and workshops!

We will be exhibiting and/or presenting at a variety of venues over the next few weeks. Hope to see some of you!

Saturday April 27 we will be letting people play with our 3D printed models at innovatED.LA, at the Wildwood School. Free but tickets needed. 

Sunday April 28  we will be exhibiting and speaking at We Make@UCLA. 

And finally, we will be in San Mateo May 17-19 doing a workshop on 3D printed math and science at Makerfaire Bay Area!

 
 

Make Magazine and Hackaday Supercon

For those of you following our project to teach math and science with 3D printing, you'll be glad to know that we are doing a Hackaday Supercon presentation about our Hacker Calculus project.  We are scheduled as the first talk on Sunday morning, Nov. 4 (10 AM). Supercon tickets still available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hackaday-superconference-2018-tickets-47386813234

Also, we have a writeup about our math and science work in general in the new issue (Oct/Nov 2018) of Make magazine. Check it out!(Subscription required, or should be available on newstands soon if not already there.)

Learn about 3D Printing this summer!

Have you been thinking you really should learn about 3D printing this summer? We now have courses on two online platforms, so you'll have a lot of choices about how to learn from us.

We teach the following classes online, hosted by LERN Network (click one of the links below for more information and to register). These courses are four weeks long.

• Introduction to 3D Printing (June and September)
• Prototyping with Maker Electronics (June and August)
• 3D Printed Science and Math: Visualizations and Experiments (July and October)

If you want to do a deep dive in some intermediate-level topics, we've authored the following courses for Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning: Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints and Additive Manufacturing: Troubleshoot 3D Prints

Giving talk in Irvine April 28th - pre-registration required.

 We'll be giving a talk about our math and science modeling efforts in Irvine the evening of Wednesday, April 18, organized by the Orange County chapter of AIAA, the aerospace engineering professional organization. Join us! Nominal fee for food. Pre-registration required.  Click here to register.

Giving UC Berkeley Grad Education colloquium Monday April 2.

We are excited to be giving the April 2nd UC Berkeley Graduate Education Colloqium  about our work modeling math and science. Join us if you're in the area! More info at the link.

Third Annual Scientific Maker Exhibit, Cal Poly Pomona, June 11-15

    We are pleased to announce the third annual Scientific Maker Exhibit at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Pacific Division Annual Meeting. The meeting is at Cal Poly Pomona, in Pomona, California, an eastern suburb of Los Angeles, June 11-15, 2018.

It is now feasible to use “maker” technologies like 3D printing, Arduino electronics, sensors, and the like to make data visualizations, experimental equipment and more. It is also possible to enable citizen scientist collaborators who cannot only take data for professional scientists, but follow open source plans to create their own equipment. Are you one of the pathfinders that has actually tried to do one of these things?

Exhibits in this session consist of a table or half-table, with limited availability of power. This is intended to be a “third way” of presenting, as an alternative to the usual conference options of a paper or a poster. Note that there is no provision for hanging a poster at the Scientific Maker Exhibit – presenters get a table that they staff for a couple of hours. The intent is to present and explain 3D prints, low-cost Arduino-based equipment, etc. and to allow attendees to interact with what is being presented.

This professional scientific conference, but students can compete (primarily undergrad and grad students) for prizes. Submission deadline is April 15, 2018. Presenters have to register for the meeting.

Download flier here: http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2018POMONA/Flyers/2018MakerFlyer-Newest.pdf

Apply here: http://bit.ly/2yFpBH0

Overall conference information: http://associations.sou.edu/aaaspd/2018POMONA/

Questions? Go to http://www.nonscriptum.com/contact/

Our Lynda.com 3D printing class

Our Lynda.com class, "Additive Manufacturing: Optimizing 3D Prints" is now available!  

Check it out at:    https://www.lynda.com/CAD-tutorials/Additive-Manufacturing-Optimizing-3D-Prints/618717-2.html

3D printing and fashion tech live classes in downtown LA

In October, we will be teaching classes at the LA Cleantech Incubator (LACI) in downtown LA. Here are the options and links for registration.











Introduction to 3D printing (90 minute sessions):
Wed Oct 25 6 PM

Intro to wearable tech for fashion applications (90 minute sessions):
Wed Oct 25 noon

Check out our online classes and other offerings at http://www.nonscriptum.com/classes.

Check out the latest on our Hacker Calculus project!

We've added our project video to our "Hacker Calculus" project.

The video! https://youtu.be/Xa6efgkgA54

The overall project: https://hackaday.io/project/20621-hacker-calculus

Check it out, and follow/like us! 

Pasadena 3D Printing meetup group

 We're pleased to announce the creation of a Pasadena 3D printing meetup, to be held more or less monthly at Supplyframe DesignLab in Pasadena. Please join us!
 https://www.meetup.com/Pasadena-3D-printing-meetup/

At SIGGRAPH? Come to our Birds of a Feather Tues Aug 1,10-11 AM

If you are coming to SIGGRAPH in Los Angeles this year, be sure to stop by our Birds of a Feather session:

Best Practices in Making 3D-Printed Math and Science Models

Tuesday, 1 August, 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Los Angeles Convention Center - Room 506

This session is for people who are creating 3D-printed models of math, science, or engineering concepts. Compare tools, techniques, and tips for accurate representations. Bring along a model!
At least "Exhibits Plus" registration is required for Birds of a Feather session. More at  http://s2017.siggraph.org/birds-feather

Aug 3-4 (Thurs-Fri) Maker-educator event in West LA!

Maker-educators: awesome two-day event in West Los Angeles. We'll be speaking and exhibiting!  Registration and more info here.

Friday July 14 San Diego: Maker tech to teach science

Teacher friends in the San Diego area- National University is hosting a workshop about maker tech for science teachers on Friday, July 14.

We have a great lineup!  Rich Cameron and I will be talking about our work creating 3D printed science projects, we'll have two proposed charter schools with a maker focus talking about their plans, case studies from the classroom, an agricultural water-saving Arduino project, and more! Event is free to educators. More: https://julynumakertechworkshop.eventbrite.com

Our new Science Projects book is out!

Our new book, 3D Printed Science Projects Volume 2, is now out! Check out some of the cool models, including sand dunes, gravitational waves, and topics in probability. Check it out on the publisher's page at http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484226940

Hacker Calculus update

We've added some material to our Hacker Calculus project on Hackaday. 

Check out the overall project at the link above, or see the directions to build the acceleration sensor shown here in Log #1. It's a great way to start a conversation with students about acceleration, gravity, constant-velocity motion, and more.

Our Hacker Calculus project aims to create a structured set of modules consisting of hands-on 3D printing and electronics projects, with thorough text documentation and minimal supporting algebra. These modules will teach calculus in this hacker style both for self-learners and others, like the visually impaired, who need hands-on learning.

When Isaac Newton developed calculus in the 1600s, he was trying to tie together math and physics in an intuitive, geometrical way. But over time math and physics teaching became heavily weighted toward algebra, and less toward geometrical problem-solving. However, many practicing mathematicians and physicists will get their intuition geometrically first and do the algebra later. We want to let people get to that point directly without passing through (much) algebra, particularly people who learn best by making something.

Follow our project as we continue to add ideas!