We are honored to work alongside someone who has been featured in the Forbes “Most Powerful Women in the World” issue. Noor is an amazing person and is one rank ahead of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on the “Women Changing the World: STEM” list. We are inspired by her dedication to making her country of Afghanistan a better place for women.
http://www.dickinson.edu/news-and-events/news/2012-13/Changing-the-World/
The Media Center’s newest member, The MakerBot Replicator, is finally available! After several weeks of troubleshooting and trials, it is now fine tuned and ready to print your designs! Here is a look at the phases of the tuning process, through the creation of a unique Media Center keychain designed in Google Sketchup 8.
The MakerBot uses an Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) plastic, which is fed through the top of the extruder. The extruder is heated to ~220C or ~430F, which turns the ABS plastic into a viscous liquid. The extruder then positions itself just above the warm print surface and begins the expel the plastic in the formation designated by the 3D file. Each print begins with a “raft,” which is nothing more than a thick grid of ABS plastic, that allows for the MakerBot to ensure that the rest of the object is built upon a stable foundation. Below is a snapshot of the raft creation process.
Out of the box, the MakerBot and I were simply not on the same page. This is my personal favorite of its early errant creations. We are still unsure as to what caused the many problems with this print, but, by some luck, the mistakes were not repeated.
The staff and I had found that calibrating the system was critical for precise prints, and that the motor mounts needed to be tightened before each print. As we grew more familiar with the hardware and software, our results began to improve.
Once we had perfected the printing of our adorable alien, we then moved to printing the “Media Center” label onto the bottom of our keychain. This proved to be quite challenging, as the small letters were a bit too intricate for our settings. 
Finally, we were able to tweak the MakerBot to build as we requested. By enlarging and elongating the lettering, the label became readable. Here are a few final copies of our (exclusive) Media Center keychain!
If you or your department would have an interest in utilizing the MakerBot’s 3D printing capabilities, it is available in the Media Center located in the Bosler basement. Please contact Brenda Landis or Andy Petrus to schedule a meeting with the MakerBot Replicator!
Congratulations to MC assistants Angelo, Diego and Hoang and the entire Class of 2012!
May 9th at 8pm in Althouse 106 – Come and check out the films created by this years film production class. As you can see its been a lot of hard work.
The GIS students at Dickinson College will once again be presenting the results of their course project assignments at our annual GIS Exposition and Poster Symposium Friday, May 4th, 2012, from 1:30pm—4:30pm in the Kaufman Hall Student Lounge area (located between Kaufman 188 and 190, just outside the Center for Sustainability Education [CSE] office and next to DPS).
We have a couple additions to the inventory here at the Media Center. For starters, we have two new fantastic XY Mic Video Camera that are great for shooting videos and getting great audio too. We also have more LUMIX Digital Still Cameras now, we previously only had one but now our supply is up to five! For more details please check out the equipment section of this blog.
In Althouse 106, on Thursday April 12 at 7:00pm, Dr. Bruce Paddington, Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, is giving a presentation titled “Caribbean Cinema: Issues of Representation, Historical Development and Film Practices.”
Dr. Paddington is the Founder and Festival Director of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, Director of the New World Film Centre, and the founder of the media production company Banyan Productions. He is an award winning filmmaker, having made over 500 films and television programmes, mainly on Caribbean culture. His 2006 documentary, “The Mennonites of Belize,” received the award as the best cultural and educational programme by the Caribbean Broadcasting Union in 2007.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Departments of Africana Studies and Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies.
What new in the MC? Well, we have 2 brand new podcast rooms bringing our total to 4 plus the studio, of course. One podcast room is modeled after the previous ones as we converted a walkin closet. The other one is a pop up room from the company Vocal Booth. It is a bit of a smaller space than the others but by setting it up in the collaboration space, people can record in there while small groups could still work on project. Seemed like a win-win situation to us. Stop by and take a look if you near by!
If you would like to learn how to operate our pro-sumer style Digital Video Camcorder, there will be a Workshop given on Friday the 17th in the Media Center Studio (Bosler 008).
—Update times are set there will be two sessions one from 3:00 to 4:30 and another from 5:00 to 6:30. People who responded to the survey and film students will get first priority but more are welcome for both times.
For the most part, things have been quiet in the Bosler Media Center this past summer. Aside from some renovations with the media center website and some cool new toys coming in (Sony Readers, LED lighting kits, etc.), the Media Center hasn’t had many major projects, however, there has been one very important one: renovations to the micro-room. After 4 years, the time came for a new batch of iMac computers to fill the halls of the Bosler micro-room. Now equipped with the latest Apple iMacs, possessing a quad core 2.5 GHz processor, a 21.5 inch screen, top notch resolution, and 500 GB of memory, and with the latest versions of various Adobe and Apple programs installed on them (Photoshop, InDesign, iMovie, etc.), the micro room has all the tools to let students and faculty create whatever they imagine.
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