{"id":420,"date":"2014-10-05T22:21:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T05:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/chrissymakes\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-10-20T11:15:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T18:15:27","slug":"cst-week-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/cst-week-1\/","title":{"rendered":"CST Week 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 29, 2014<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She settled in for another day of watching the guys work, asking the occasional question. The column she&#8217;d ended up filing had been a kind of wait-and-see piece, describing the cool culture these two had going between them, and asking if it could survive scaling up to mass production. Now she experimented with their works-in-progress, sculptures and machines that almost worked, or didn&#8217;t work at all, but that showed the scope of their creativity&#8221; (Doctrow 39).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you people are making has an edge because it&#8217;s you making it, very bespoke and distinctive. I think it will take some time for the world to emerge an effective competitor to these goods, provided that you can build an initial marketplace mass-interest in them&#8230;. The system makes it hard to sell anything above the marginal cost of goods, unless you have a really innovative idea, which can&#8217;t stay innovative for long, so you need continuous invention and reinvention, too (Doctrow 43).<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Without any previous experience in the realm of 3D printing, I watched curiously as my peers tinkered with shapes on their screens. My first impression of Tinkercad was that it looked like a simple program for putting together\u00a0building blocks. On the screen was a three-dimensional graphic plane where shapes were manipulated, transformed, and rotated on all corners. Students began with a flat, orange cylinder and added (or subtracted) shapes to create dimension. They were making coins. The shapes were grouped together and sent to print: they would become the tokens that signified the start of a new skill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/chrissymakes\/files\/2014\/10\/notes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/chrissymakes\/files\/2014\/10\/notes.jpg\" alt=\"notes\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 29, 2014 &ldquo;She settled in for another day of watching the guys work, asking the occasional question. The column she&rsquo;d ended up filing had been a kind of wait-and-see piece, describing the cool culture these two had going between them, and asking if it could survive scaling up to mass production. Now she experimented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/making\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}