3D Printer Club: ToddleBot
theFrankes.com proudly introduces ToddleBot: Your toddler’s first 3D printer!
theFrankes.com proudly introduces ToddleBot: Your toddler’s first 3D printer!
[sc:3dclub-intro] Our 3D Printer Club kids got a shout-out from Josef Prusa, designer of the most popular RepRap—quite possibly the most popular 3D printer period. Watch the video here:
This came out a couple of years ago, but someone reminded me of it just this weekend so I thought I’d share it. It’s a great little introduction to soldering. Click on the image or the following link to visit…
[sc:3dclub-intro] Here’s a video update of our latest progress in helping a group of grade school kids build a 3D printer from scratch. A lot went into this milestone, including research, sourcing parts, accounting, blogging, build scheduling, membership coordination, and…
[sc:3dclub-intro] We missed a meeting due to weather, and so I talked about some ideas to make up the time with one of the build team members. One idea that came out of that discussion was to involve more people…
[sc:3dclub-intro] To help prepare the kids for the next meeting, I sent this email to all of the club members. The robots I’m referring to are a handful of little Maker Faire Robots () that I printed to give away…
[sc:3dclub-intro] Here’s another email from the build team explaining the schedule slip. It’s funny to see kids use words like “aggressive” used to describe the schedule, but there’s a good reason for it: I used that word and explained it…
[sc:3dclub-intro] This is one of several emails that I sent out to team advisers in order to clear up concerns about expectations and direction. Hi [accounting team advisers], As you know, my emails are usually directed toward the kids, but…
[sc:3dclub-intro] So far I’ve been doing all of the purchasing for the club — partly because I don’t want the kids to be overwhelmed, and I don’t want to burden the kids’ parents with the extra expenses that won’t be…
[sc:3dclub-intro] In an effort to trim down the team to only the most interested and motivated students and parents, I sent out this email to only the parents. With the new quarter starting up, this is probably a good time…