Welcome to The Agnes Varis BCAL Makerlab!!!

At Brooklyn College

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Season Greetings from BCAL Maker Lab, wishing everyone Happy Holidays!!!

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The BCAL Maker Lab is the perfect AFTER-SCHOOL environment for Youth to explore their ideas.  BCAL Maker Lab impulses Youth to iterate their designs into tangible prototypes that in turn fuel their curiosity and their desire to learn and apply new processes!  From fabric circuits to name plates to anime characters to fidget spinners, everything is fair game in the BCAL Maker Lab!

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After the students gained an understanding of how to create a simple circuit, their next challenge was to incorporate their circuit into a design. Shelem, Alex, and Miles have done it again with this amazing piece!

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The Maker Lab: For this assignment students were introduced to Physical Computing by using simple circuits and motors! This amazing piece is by Shelem, Miles, and Alex! Team work makes the dream work!

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The BCCP Maker Lab is helping BCAL Middle School participants create a prototype for improved designs... - Brooklyn College Community Partnership

Developmentally, BCAL Middle School participants are on a quest to understand their access to new technologies and to prototype designs that help them develop ideas and problem solving abilities. Here are a few images of work created using Rhino 2D/3D software, to later be output as an Adobe Illustrator (.ai) file and interpreted by our laser cutter.

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The BCAL Maker Lab is a space where the Middle School participants explore, appropriate, and develop designs and skills to expand their “tool box.”  In these images, they have used 3D Modeling software Rhino to create personalized objects that boost not only their interactions with technology but spark their curiosity of learning and creating productive relationships in an healthy hands-on environment.

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Emoticon!

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The Team Midwood Musketeers has done it again with Hao Lin Mei, Brian Rueda, and Yakub Shalmiyer. Today the three of them went on a mission given by the head leader Isabel to teach high-school students to do Maker Lab projects. The students have made their own titles, name plaques, key chains and much more fun prizes coming in the future near BCCP👌

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I just love classical rock so I was ecstatic to make a guitar! It was a challenging endeavor. I had to create one from scratch because the internet was down that day—but that was okay with me. I loved the challenge because I had to recall from memory what a guitar looked like. I think I did a pretty swell job in the end!

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Robert

4-14-15

Today I just finished many designs that I wanted. I don’t exactly know what I’m going to do each design yet. I’m not sure if i want to used them separately or together. In the end i would probably used them for different purposes. It would probably be best for the future if i know what I’m going to do beforehand.

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Xyomara Hughes

April 14, 2015

New Project

Today I made a new project. I was going to make a make-shift television for my small room that I am making with the 3D printer but I decided that maybe I could create a unique shape that I can use to make the room look more quirky and cool. So, I started this design with a cube and created holes inside of it with semi-circles. I also added a torus at the bottom of it to add a little more mystery to it.

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Today i learned How to manipulate the camera on the abode. For the future I’m going to do all the finishing touches on rhino Working on a Octopus project

next :D. -Flore

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Making mistaking is normally apart of the progress. Going through everything you are bound to make multiple mistakes. I’ve many mistakes going through today’s work. Actually most of today consisted of me making mistakes and fixing them. My mistakes range from printing parts out to design errors. Of course these things are frustrating but in the long run its better to keep to it and fix them.

- Robert

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Interns are working on a project to decorate the Maker Lab. Following the theme of Mario, that is painted along the walls of the lab, we decided to make shelves that are painted as Mario and Luigi. So far we have laser cutted the faces  of Mario and Luigi onto 12x12 Birch Wood, and we have painted them in.

-Hao -Edward -Yakub

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Do the mario!