by Tasha Kates, Charlottesville Daily Progress
Glen Bull, co-director of the Curry School’s Center for Technology and Teacher Education, said the fabricators can enhance children’s education in math, science, technology and more. “Digital fabrication will change everything in our lives over the next 15 years,” Bull said. To use either the 2-D or 3-D fabricators, a student creates an object on the Fab@School software. Students can see how the 2-D object will print on a flat piece of paper, a view called “the net.” Once the object prints out of a regular printer, a student loads and aligns the sheet on a plastic carrier sheet and sends it into the printer-like fabricator.
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