Make:Shift:Do OpenDay 2014 - swindonmakers/wiki GitHub Wiki

Saturday November 22nd - Design & Print Drop-In Workshop

Tasks

  • Get approval for holding it at the Museum from Simon
  • [-] Sign-up on Make-Shift-Do website! http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/makeshiftdo/
  • Decide on actual format
  • Decide on amount to charge and for what
  • Create lesson plan/instruction sheet that will be given to each attendee
  • Choose a number of customisable prints the attendees can have made - see list below
  • Print some example customisable pieces for people to "ooh and aah" at
  • Design poster/brochure
  • Print poster/brochure and put up at Museum/around town (locations?)
  • Invite journalists / send press-release? swindonlink, swindonadver, swindontv, radio?
  • Organise computers and 3d printers for actual day
  • Organise people to man the above
  • Sheet for booking times if it gets busy!
  • Create sign-up sheet for folks interested in a longer/more detailed workshop
  • Make sure we have a sign-up sheet for people interested in the Hackspace, with checkboxes for particular topics?
  • Stack of take-away hackspace leaflets
  • Create website page/post (redirected/linked from 3dprintday2014)

Drop-In 3D Design & Print

  • Set of instructions for each person - 10-20mins worth?
    • OpenSCAD, described steps with pictures for each step
  • Computers/Laptops, borrow from museum? About 3?
  • Customisable prints to choose from
  • 3D printers, 3?

Documentation / github

  • Using Scribus for now (as failing to find any nice way to do multimarkdown interactively / that I can work with) - available for Windows, Linux, Mac and a pile of other ODs', exports PDF, EPS, SVG and JPG.
  • Github repo is currently "OpenDay2014", to contain posters, images, instruction sheets, price sheets (?)

Customisable Prints

Please add a selection below, with links to relevant source (e.g. Thingiverse). If you've printed an example to bring to the day, check the box:

Part Link Print Time Filament Used Notes
iPhone Case (for 4, 4S & 5) Link
Halloween Torch/Flashlight projector Link
Rippled Organic Vase Link 20mins for 40mmx40mm 0.7m Very slow to render in OpenSCAD
Stretchlet Bracelet Link 18mins for 150mm circumference, 13mm width 0.5m Tricky to get started, but looks cool.
Luggage Label Link 1hr10m for two 3mm thick 1.9m Indented text is more readable
Minecraft Tools Link
Lego Block with your name on Link 30mins for 2x5 brick 0.5m
Gimbal with a letter inside Link 28mins 0.73m