Maneki Neko prototypes at #DesignDoDiscover @Chadwick_Int! #d3CI #cihosts #MakerEd #elemaker #STEAM

​I’m having an awesome time collaborating with teachers here at Design Do Discover’s Songdo edition at Chadwick International School. The FABulous team of coaches includes: Jaymes Dec (FabLab Coordinator at The Marymount School), Sarah Barnum (Science Teacher/Bourn Fellow at The Castilleja School), Gary Donahue (Department Chair of Technology, Making, and Design at Chadwick International School), and Andrew Carle (Village School Maker and Atelierista at Chadwick International School).
Here are some links about the program:
Design Do Discover Chadwick School: https://sites.google.com/view/ddd-ci
Design Do Discover year-round: https://making.marymountnyc.org/page/events/design-do-discover
GoogleGroup of FabLab and Maker educators: http://bit.ly/fabmakegroup

My partners today were Alice Cha of Seoul International School and Landy Hwang & Ivy Choi of Yew Chung International School in Beijing, China. We decided to create interactive Maneki Neko sculptures — these could be powered using different platforms depending on what hardware or software you have at your disposal:

• Hummingbird programmed in Scratch
• Arduino programmed in Ardublocks or Snap for Arduino or mBlock
• LEGO WeDo programmed in Scratch or Mindstorms
• EV3 programmed in Scratch or Mindstorms
• MakeBlock programmed in Scratch or mBlock
• littleBits

Here are some photos of the process:​

Here are our notes about the project:

Here are photos from the intro session with the whole group (pay attention to my new favorite caffeinated peppermint gum):

Amazing 3D printers made with Legos, EV3, and a 3D printing pen.

How much do I love my PLN? Let me count two ways…

Luigi Cicala (@luigi_teacher) of The Brearley School shared this post on one of my GoogleGroups:

I ran into Baz, an inventor at MakerFaire, and I think he’s created the best use ever for a 3d printing pen: he’s built a Lego EV3 3d printer using the pen as the extruder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYeLmEaWkwM

Then Maureen Reilly (@MaureenRReilly) of The Marymount School shared this!

Yes! Baz (or Marc Andre Bazergui)  is a good friend and also made an Instructable if you want to build this LEGO EV3 3-D Printer: http://www.instructables.com/id/EV3Dprinter/

This project has HUGE potential for Math connections – Baz’s printer currently can “only” be programmed to make polygons – but programming polygons is big stuff especially considering the Z axis!

The pens he uses are only $40 on Amazon. We have a few of them here and they are MUCH easier to use than the 3-D doodler (smaller in size)

http://www.amazon.com/Soyan-Drawing-Printing-Printer-Filament/dp/B00PTW7WEQ/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1456414266&sr=8-4&keywords=3d+pen