Nancy's Digital Frabrication Journey

An entrepreneur, a skater, a swing dancer, a life-long learner and a fun lover.

I am working in STEAM education as a project manager, STEAM curriculum developer and teacher.I joined Fab Aacademy to explore the journey of "make almost anything". I have worked in Education field for about ten years. I have taught students from 3 years old to over 50 years old. STEAM education is something I really enjoy to work on, it requires life-long learning spirit. I have seen a lot of school teachers are lack of enought engineer and technology background, mean while a lot of engineers are interested to become a school STEAM teacher but lack of teaching skills. That's why I joined this class, to learn more about technology, deveopment product design skill and creativity.

Final Project

These are some project milestones. So we can see how this project been designed and developed.

Project idea development

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At begining I want to make a board game machine for fianl project , then I realize I can focus more on a device that can helps formative assement in the classroom, so I changed it to "smart paw" that can be used for board-game but more like a mouse.

Electronics

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I made my electronic board called "Gino" to control this device.

Digital Fabrication

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I designed a shell for my project and printed it out.

Interface

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I used processing to make my interface of final project.

Reflection

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Acknowlege and reflection for this journey.