IZation Labs

Just a brief update to any would be viewers;

I spent a few hours at the Kehoe center in Shelby today meeting the newest College-Now students and speaking to them about technology, all of which went very well, I’m excited to get to know and work with these new ‘eager young minds’.

Following the line of CNC machines, below is a video of a machine called the RepRap, a diy fabricated 3D printer that is capable of, for all intents and purposes, printing copies of itself. Just like how the CNC Router I posted in the last is now being used to machine parts for a similar albeit much larger machine, the RepRap  is a machine that can build itself. Neat, huh?

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-Lace

As is the norm, I’m up late, blending. A College-Now grad (and good friend of mine), Matt Spring, is passed out on the sofa next to me. He and I have been hanging out just about all weekend. I’m too tired to be too talkative tonight, so instead, here are some late night renders that I’ll post while I’m waiting for my newest one to crank out.

The sword pictures will be explained in the next post, when I have the final image rendered. Night, all!

–Lace

Here’s a video made in Blender by Alex Polkinghorn, a College-Now Student at North Central State College. He made the fire by following a tutorial by Nion, in which particle effects do most of the work. Well done!

If anyone knows the link to the tutorial, please leave a comment below the article. Thanks!

–Lace

This is at the top of my list of “programs that no one should go without”. It is far superior to all other free messaging, conference, and teleprescence programs, in every way I can think of. It just is. I can’t really explain it. So instead, I’m asking one (or as many as are willing) of the College-Now students to consider downloading it and setting it up, be it on a laptop, desktop, or preferably a machine with a web cam. Then add me on Skype. My user name is my first and middle name with no spaces.

Then, we’ll do some conferencing, file transfers, and video chatting. Before the day is done, you’ll see why it is just so amazing.

Maybe then we’ll do a follow up on everyone’s impressions. Looking forward to hearing from someone!

If you’d like to see what the College-Now students are up to, feel free to download this four page newsletter detailing their progress up to this point.

The Newsletter focuses mainly on the PBLs that the student are participating in. PBL stands for Problem Based Learning. Rather than just sit the students down in front of a text book and tell them to memorize, Problem Based Learning attempts to bring in engineering problems from an established base of business partners that will share problems and expertise with the students.

Enjoy!