Hello All – I’d meant to post sooner – to introduce myself and some of the tools and projects I’ve been working with that might be pertinent for this forum.  I’m very excited to be a part f this group ad looking forward to the discussion!  I’m teaching at Penn State University and in addition to the weekly football infusion I’ve found a lot of perks in being at a big state school.  We have a few digital fab tools in the school of visual art and a whole lot of toys throughout all of the departments in the university.  In the school of visual art we’ve got

1.a smallish 3axis cnc mill,

2. a “Stratus” printer (this machine sort of coil builds up plastic – like hot glue out of a little nozzle)

3. and a Vinyl Cutter

I’ve been collaborating with a colleague in the Architecture program – David Celento – who runs their digital fabrication area.  They’ve got a lot of toys over in Architecture and Dave is doing a great job building up their tool kit.  I’ll talk more in a separate post about the things David and I have been working on together. Briefly, we’re working on a project that’s loosely organized around the idea of ceramic building cladding systems employing digital fabrication, digital scanning, and digital modelling software in their generation.  The tools they’ve got in architecture are:

1. A big CNC mill (about an 8′ by 4′ by 1′ working area)

2. A Z corp printer (an additive plaster process).  I’m really interested in the stuff that John Ballistreri is working on at Bowling Green with this type of machine.

3. A 2 axis laser cutter (I’m not sure what the working size is for this machine)

Another project that I’m working on right now is a class for next fall that I’ll be team teaching with a colleague in sculpture and another colleague in Industrial Engineering.  Bonnie Collura (assistant professor of sculpture) and I having been putting this class together – we’re interested in creating a class that allows for students to move between digital and analog fabrication techniques in ways that serve their project ideas.  Our thesis statement for the class has to do with: helping students become intelligent makers by becoming sensitive to the  “stylistic” and formal predelictions embedded in both software and CNC tools. We’re hoping that this class will function in different ways for different types of students: to give art students a working vocabulary for thinking about available CNC processes, and for engineering students to present them with fabrication and software challenges in the form of artist projects.  The digital fabrication lab in engineering is really amazing – more tools than I can remember right now – but one of the first things we’re going to give the students in this class is an inventory of these tools explained in terms of types of material they can work with, dimensional limitations, and advantages and disadvantages for resolution, fabrication speed, scale, etc.   I’ll share that inventory here when we get it together.

OK, more soon . . .

Del

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