Day 1 at the Fab Lab

Katie Buss, 8th Grade: Coastal Academy. Today we learned about transforming a 2D template into a 3D object. We applied this skill to make characters on paper that fold up into 3-dimensional figures. To start out, we first learned about Platonic solids. E...

Day 2 at the FabLab

Today we continued making our flat-pack characters, using the Roland CAMM1 vinyl plotter to make a rough draft of our final work. We used Adobe Illustrator CS2 to continue our vector editing and finalize our [animals, monsters, etc.]. In Adobe Illustrator...

Day 3at the FabLab

Today we finished our flat-pack characters using, you guessed it! Adobe Illustrator, a vector editing program. We translated our characters into the vinyl plotter machine, and it printed part of our characters in vinyl. My owl is complete and I am really ...