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3D Printed Science Projects: Ideas for your classroom, science fair or home (Technology in Action) 1st ed. Edition

by Joan Horvath (Author), Rich Cameron (Author)

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Create 3D printable models that can help students from kindergarten through grad school learn math, physics, botany, chemistry, engineering and more.
This book shows parents and teachers how to use the models inside as starting points for 3D printable explorations. Students can start with these models and vary them for their own explorations. Unlike other sets of models that can just be scaled, these models have the science built-in to allow for more insight into the fundamental concepts.
Each of the eight topics is designed to be customized by you to create a wide range of projects suitable for science fairs, extra credit, or classroom demonstrations. Science fair project suggestions and extensive "where to learn more" resources are included, too. You will add another dimension to your textbook understanding of science.
What You'll Learn

Create (and present the science behind) 3D printed models.
Use a 3D printer to create those models as simply as possible.
Discover new science insights from designing 3D models.

Who This Book Is For
Parents and teachers

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1484213246
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Apress
Publication date

May 3, 2016
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English
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6.1 x 0.51 x 9.25 inches
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223 pages
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As an engineer and management consultant, Joan Horvath has coordinated first-of-a-kind interdisciplinary technical and business projects, helping people with no common vocabulary (startups, universities, small towns, etc). work together. Her experience as a systems engineer has spanned software development, spacecraft flight operations, risk management, and spacecraft/ground system test and contingency planning.As an educator, Joan’s passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.

Rich Cameron is a co-founder of Pasadena-based Nonscriptum LLC. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich (known online as “Whosawhatsis”) is an experienced open source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap 3D-printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism used on many 3D printers, the RepRap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3D printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3D printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone else’s printers better too.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Apress; 1st ed. edition (May 3, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1484213246
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1484213247
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.1 x 0.51 x 9.25 inches

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Rich Cameron (known online as “Whosawhatsis”) is a consultant on 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich is an experienced open-source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism, the Reprap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3d printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3d printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone else's printers better too.
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Ms. Horvath is the co-founder (with Rich Cameron) of Nonscriptum LLC (www.nonscriptum.com), a technology consulting and training company based in Pasadena. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies, and develops hands-on STEM curriculum using those technologies. She has been adjunct faculty at the university level in a variety of institutions both in Southern California and online. Prior to that, she has held a variety of positions, including Vice President of Business Development at Deezmaker 3D printers . Before becoming an entrepreneur she spent sixteen years at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she worked in programs including the technology transfer office, the Magellan spacecraft to Venus and the TOPEX/Poseidon oceanography spacecraft. She holds an undergraduate degree from MIT in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an engineering Master's degree from UCLA.
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Anon E-mouse

Not just the usual 3D paper clip, but a great teaching tool

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2016

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My initial reaction was to give this book a 10 star rating. So why 5 stars. Well that is the limit with Amazon.
But that was my initial reaction. It still deserves 5 Amazon stars for the material it tries to present. It is not just the usual nonsense of the paper clip or the coaster, or some silly rabbit (BTW rabbits are not silly, the 3d version is), but some realy interesting stuff. What it attempts to do is use 3D prints of concepts difficult to appreciate say on a 2D piece of paper in a 3D printed form. But it goes well beyond that. There are some concepts that I would not waist filament to generate 3D material with, for example levers etc... Once you understand the concepts in this book, there are so many other teaching projects that you can create. couple that with an Arduino, and you are on your way.
This is a great teaching tool.
Mr. Mosa Kaleel's review is very encouraging. Unfortunately, at first glance the material looks intimidating and I suspect that a number of teachers will get frustrated and perhaps return the book. I recommend starting with the $1.75 Kindle version.

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Franko

This is a fine introductory handbook for science classes and projects

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2017

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This is a fine introductory handbook for science classes and projects. These authors begin at the beginning and carefully lead the reader to a modest but sufficient level of competence in 3D printing, the most significant new technology of the past decade. I recommend the book to teachers and parents who wish to have hands-on involvement with their kids' entry into technology. Bear in mind, this stuff is fun.

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Mosa P. Kaleel

If you own a 3D printer, then you should have this book. I highly recommend it!

Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2016

If you own a 3D printer, then you should have this book. I highly recommend it!

3D Printed Science Projects addresses the “We Bought It, Now What?” problem of 3D printers. Each chapter starts with a science or math concept and then provides a model for you to print. So, in the chapter about Gravity, the science about the orbit of Haley’s Comet around the Sun is discussed. Then they give you the actual software code to make an orbit model. Pretty cool.

The authors use the free software openSCAD. Don’t be afraid. I was, but the online documentation for openSCAD turns out to be good. After spending not much time using the software, my rookie fear is disappearing.

Encouraged, I’ve decided to make the model that explains light waves. The supplied code works fine and I’m happy to say that the 3D printer is happily 3D printing.

One last important meaty note is that once you have a model working in the software, the authors suggest how to easily manipulate the variables for different effects. After you start doing that, the creative juices start flowing.

I respect this book. It does exactly what it says it will, with economy. Expect to be challenged, to have to think, and to be inspired. With a strong will and this excellent guidance, you can and should succeed.

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Excellent Source for Teachers!

Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2016

As a teacher of blind and visually impaired students, I use 3D printing as a way to present important concepts to my students. The models presented in this book are very helpful to me! I particularly enjoy the chapter and related models on ice crystals. My students are able to get a sense of the orientation of water molecules, not to another, in different types of ice crystals. Given that good lesson planning incorporates methods that work for all students, books of this type will illustrate concepts and provide understanding for many others, not just blind students. This book is an excellent source for teachers!

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Good idea, awful exposition.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2016

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This book is built around a collection of OpenSCAD computer programmes which can be used to generate .stl files that can be 3d printed. To take advantage of the book you will need access to a 3d printer and you are probably already competent at programming in OpenSCAD or are planning to make a serious effort to become so. Perhaps I have just helped you avoid a purchasing error. The files (OpenSCAD programmes and some .stl files you might generate) are freely available from the book's publisher whether or not you buy the book.

The 3d objects they model are useful in illustrating certain mathematical and scientific ideas. If you want to learn about something it can be good to be able to get your hands on something concrete and three dimensional rather than say a two dimensional image. That is the nub of the good idea which informed the writing of the book.

The problem is although the authors have assembled a nice collection of models they ran into trouble when they wrote the surrounding text. Firstly, the details of the models are never adequately explained. There is some overview material on general subject matter but this never gets to the point of connecting with the models. Secondly, while there are code listings for the computer programmes these is no real discussion in the text of how the computer programmes work. Lastly, the authors are not sufficiently expert on the underlying subject matter to provide a good explanation of the scientific ideas behind the models. It feels like they found the models, thought they would be useful in a teaching environment and then tried to 'wing it' as far as subject expertise. Here are some examples of superficially plausible but actually silly statements they make:

(Botany, phyllotaxis) "Evolution has favoured plants that have the most efficient distribution of leaves and flower petals. As it turns out, this efficient distribution spaces subsequent leaves or petals by the golden angle ..." - uhh, just look at the distribution of leaves in some real plants.

(Maths, golden ratio) "Phi is an irrational number (like pi), which means you can never write down all its digits because there is no pattern as there is for, say 2/3." - uhh, there is pattern enough that you can have as many digits of phi as you like and no you can never write all the digits of 2/3.

(Chemistry, orbitals in carbon atom) "The simplest one is the spherical s orbital, and the one with three possible orientations is the dumbbell-shaped p orbital." - uhh, there are infinitely many orientations for p orbitals.

The authors just don't have a feel for the subjects they are talking about.

So how many stars to give? The models are good but the text which is what you are actually buying is terrible. One star.

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