3D Printed Science Projects: Ideas for Your Classroom, Science Fair, or Home

Introduction

When we started our 3D-printing and makertech consulting company, we joked that we were going to call it “Now What?” because that was what schools seemed to say after they bought a 3D printer. We hope that this book takes a step toward answering that question.

We saw that students, parents, and teachers would be excited about using a 3D printer, might download a 3D model, print it, and then wonder what to do next. Or, they might get into creating models from scratch, and get discouraged by the limitations of easier 3D-modeling programs or the learning curves of the more capable ones.

In this book, we try to create a middle path: models that you could just print, but that would be reasonably easy to alter if you wanted to do more. ...