Glowforge in a classroom

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Thanks for the link for sliceform studio. The patterns look like they would be a good introduction of protein structure. Proteins are oddly shaped, but still form crystals. Showing odd shapes that still make an overall pattern in 3-D is so abstract, many college students don’t get it. It’s easy to imagine simple cubic crystal packing, but imagining a “blob” of protein doing the same thing is hard.

Sliceform and a laser cutter would work great to explore complex crystal structures!

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Thanks for your comment. It can be difficult when you fix one barrier to learning, only to have another barrier crop up!

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I am western Idaho. May be close enough to collaborate on something somewhere along the lines.

And yes… @henryhbk’s idea of an educator section for the forums would be phenomenal.

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I also think that @henryhbk’s idea is great. A tab marked educator. or something.

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Hope folks saw this profile today on make, for a teacher/maker profile:

http://makezine.com/2017/05/01/maker-spotlight-boyd-weiger/

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