Category: News & Events (Page 8 of 13)

Halloween Costume Creation Workshop in the Makery

October 8, 2015 / BSL

The Media Center Makery wants to help you get ready for Halloween. Come out to our workshop so we can help you create your Halloween Costume and props. We have a sewing machine, material, hot glues guns and other crafting supplies to get your started. If you have specific supplies needed, bring them along and our student assistants will help you with your creation. The Makery is open year round as a space for sewing and crafting (as well as 3d printing and programming) so drop in to continue working on your project during our open hours.

If you are looking for cheap material and other sewing/knitting supplies, check out the Carlisle Salvation Army Material Sale Friday October 9th and Saturday October 10th.

Music Walk First Friday

September 21, 2015 /

The Media Center and Makery will be at the October 2nd Music Walk/Discover Downtown First Friday. Using Media Center equipment to DJ music and showing you how to use circuits to make your own music. Stop by and say hi to MC Assistants Greg, Purti, and Kerin.

Greg is tinkering with Little Bits to create custom instruments to play with when we are at Carlisle’s First Friday Music Walk downtown October 2nd.

How to Scan From the Media Center Printer

September 16, 2015 / toolen

Click the link below for a tutorial on how to scan from our printer!

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Farm Frolics and Student Activities

September 9, 2015 /

We had a fantastic time Farm Frolics at the Dickinson College Farm this weekend. Our MC Assistants, Greg, Edwin and Devlynn taught students how to make tiny, vibrating robots out of toothbrushes, paper flash lights, created a solar powered spin art machine using snap circuits, old CDs and colored sharpies. Thanks for getting us out of the basement and letting us play under the lovely sun on the farm. Our staff and creations are showcased well in this video!

And on Sunday Sai and Bedurdin showed off our VHS foosball table at student activities night.

Willoughby Examples of Student Work

August 15, 2015 /

Physics 110

https://ensemble.dickinson.edu/app/sites/index.aspx?destinationID=a42HKKPxQEeAOUmDbFqZwg&contentID=spjabvtHU0ao0Yy09KdC2Q&pageIndex=4&pageSize=10

Global Economy

https://ensemble.dickinson.edu/Watch/Xm6a4YKw

Threads for Thought

Ad Campaigns

https://ensemble.dickinson.edu/Watch/Bk36StMs

https://ensemble.dickinson.edu/Watch/y7S4Gdc2

Fabulation

https://ensemble.dickinson.edu/Watch/m8MKa32Q

Community Video Project

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxZQpXkk1ViNelp3UHBjVTRaQzQ/view

Podcast Nooks Remodeled!

July 1, 2015 /

: Before

: After

Over the course of alumni weekend, the media center has remodeled the podcast nooks with new desks from Ikea, bringing a new look, along with a brand new recording set-up. Each podcast nook is equipped with new speakers, bass traps, and condenser mics. They also each have new guitar stands for anyone who brings in a guitar to play in the nooks. This new set-up will optimize the recording experience with easy-to-use speakers that allow you to not only control the output volume, but also control the input volume of any mic connected to them. They also have dials that can control the bass and treble in any sound that’s being listened to or recorded. There are also adjustable arms for the mics,which record in stereo. The new bass traps will help absorb excess sound which provides for higher sound quality. The rooms are perfect for working on group or individual projects that require higher sound quality and minimal interference.

: Condenser Mic

: MS16 Monitor Speakers

Dickinson Makes March

March 10, 2015 /

This month we rolled out our Dickinson Makes initiative. To helps us spread the word please use #dsonmakes hashtag on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook when ever you are harnessing the maker spirit. Show us how you Make.

http://www.dickinson.edu/homepage/743/dickinson_makes

Lite-Brite

July 16, 2014 /

The lite-brite is a toy I’m sure we all remember from our youth. The simple toy, composed of a back light, plastic shell, and a multi-holed interface for the insertion of plastic lights (the impetus for the namesake “light”). The bright then ostensibly refers to the light waves given off by the refraction of incandescence through the translucent plastic pieces.

These pieces come in an array of natural colours, primary and secondary in order to let the viewer fixate on any artwork imaginable without being taken out of the experience due to a limited palette. The lite brites themselves act as a mirror into what we truly want to create and thus perceive with something more than our minds eye- it must become real and thus is no longer seen as beautiful, but beautiful-seen.

The lite-brite was invented in 1967 as an obvious homage to skywriting, neon as an artifice of direction and enchantment, and the constant shifting of lighted-highway signs. This amalgamation proved to be both a welcome opportunity for artistic advancement in those not naturally gifted, as well as an outlet for the inner light to be reflected in the warm visage of a child’s face.

Either way, Lite on you crazy diamond.

Tinkercad and Intuitive Design

July 7, 2014 /

With the rise in 3-d printing and the availability of such machines as an affordable outlet for design and creation with real world application has come the need for reasonable printing design emulators. Sites like thingiverse and shapeways, hundreds of printing designs can be easily downloaded, and after running through the correct software, printed speedily and without hassle. Some of these sites are limited to browsing currently existing designs, and Tinkercad hopes to fill the void between creation and dissemination.

Tinkercad is an online 3-d model planner used to create designs compatible with Makerware and other 3-d printing software. Once the design is created it can be easily imported from tinkercad to these programs, and from there saved to an SD card or USB drive and loaded onto a printer. The “workplane” looks like this:

From here comes the option of combining shapes, letters, and numbers to make nearly anything, within the boundaries of finite detail. Some examples include:

Glasses-

Dice-

And other useful and not-so-useful objects-

The Tinkercad software itself is quite intuitive and easy to use. With dozens of tutorials built into the creator itself, grasping the basics and more advanced techniques with the program is both simple and fun. It was straightforward and uncomplicated for me to quickly create complex objects from the limited but encompassing variety of 3d pieces provided.

After the designs are finalized, they can be easily saved and imported into Makerwrare. After some quick formatting changes, they are sually ready to be printed on either our Makerbot I or Makerbot 5th generation machines.

Happy Making!

https://tinkercad.com/