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Tactile Campus Map
For this project, I wanted to try and make a tactile map for a student who is blind, and was struggling to navigate their way around our campus. Through this process, I learned about GIS technology, 3D modeling, and also learned a good amount of what makes for good braille vs bad braille. This same process will also allow anyone to make their own tactile map of any location. I have a full write up of how I did this, with my Power Point used at the 2022 CSUN conference, as well as a video that shows the step by step process.
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Scanning and Printing Fossils
We have a Professor at the CSUSB campus by the name of Stuart Sumida. Not only is he an astoundingly knowledgeable person, but he is also one of the most fun professors I've had the chance to work with. He had the idea of scanning some of the fossils he has and print the resulting models. The fossils are surprisingly resilient, but when people hold them they tend to freak out when they hear they are 200,000,000+ years old. Rather than place that in their hands, they can hold an exact replica and not worry about dropping a one of a kind item.
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Scanning and Printing The Campus Mascot (Wild Song)
The CSUSB campus has a gorgeous statue of our mascot called Wild Song. I wanted to scan and print the statue so I can give out replicas. This was also the project that originally got me into resin printing.
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Networking Switch Covers
Our campus has some networking equipment that is exposed to the elements, and when it starts to rain, those elements are not always fully protected, resulting in failures and short-circuiting. I worked with another tech to come up with a design that can protect these devices, and survive the rain and heat as well.
Buisness Cards
I made buisness cards to share and hand out. I've also shown folks how to make their own cards as well (the only hard part is converting the QR code to a 3D Model, in this write up I show how to do that.)
Theater Prop
I had a prop maker for our campus reach out and ask if we could make a model for a play they were putting on. In this write up I go over the process off how it was made.
Historical Pieces
Literally just a bunch of historical pieces I've printed (Shout out Scan The World and their incredible work!) The heavy lifting of scanning the original works has already been done by Scan The World, so this is just a series of the prints I ended up making. Enjoy!
3D Modeling and Printing Training Materials and Content
I've held a bunch of 3D Printing and Modeling work shops, trainings, and created Maker Space related content. Here I have some of those materials, videos, and content I've made over the years.