"Last fall, Michigan Tech offered a new course: Open Source 3D Printing. Students pay an additional $500 course fee for the components and tools necessary to build their own MOST Delta RepRap 3D printer, which they then use for the course. At the end of the semester, each student keeps the printer they built and modified. The 50 seats for the class filled immediately.
“After students built their 3D printers, we worked through five design-prototype projects of progressive complexity to transform them into open source Jedi.”
“Michigan Tech course to build your own 3D printer”
The reason I didn’t go with the $500/student for this class was because I know a lot of members wouldn’t be able to come up with the full amount. I only charged $50/student for the class to go toward one 3D printer for the space so we didn’t have to ask the money from the board and make up for the Rostock delta project. I think its a great idea though, I’d like to gear the curriculum towards high school students as well as part of STEM education since I would have loved the opportunity to build a 3D printer in high school.
Once this class is successful, do you think a $500/student class where the students walk away with a working printer, work at DMS? I think @frank_lima mentioned wanting to do that at one point.
