DesignING
In addition to providing students students with opportunities to learn to authentically design through the creation or recreation of missing board game pieces, another "World Piece Project" goal is also to empower other young designers around the world. We advocate the use of three 3D Designing Approaches/Apps:
Boston Maker Faire Visitors' Designs
Here is a cross section of some of the designs created by visitors to our Boston Maker Faire booth:
1. Tinkercad
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An easy-to-learn, free, and cloud-based program, Tinkercad is an incredibly powerful and intuitive 3D designing tool that allows anyone from ages 5 and up to create sophisticated designs that can be 3D printed.
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2. Qlone
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Qlone is an app that allows you to turn your smart phone or iPad into a 3D scanner. We teach students to model game board pieces in Play-Doh, scan them using Qlone, and import the scans into Tinkercad to edit, scale, personalize, etc. from which we 3D print - allowing even the youngest children the chance to become "professional" board game piece creators
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3. 2D images to 3D models
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It is also possible for young children to create 3D printable models of game board pieced by either drawing with Tinkercad's new "Scribble" tool or by converting image files (jpeg, png, etc.) into svg files, importing them into Tinkercad, and extruding or "pulling them up" in order to be able to 3D print them. The video to the left shows how to do this.
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