 Well, I have the only part that was actually 3D. There we go. And it's the other side. OK. So basically the whole idea of this presentation is that it's not going to be about 3D glasses. And it's not about 3D videos that you go and see the movie dear that are all the rage today. What we're talking about is taking bits and turning them into atoms. So what we are talking about is 3D printers and CNC machines and paper cutters and all these things like circuitry that finally, in this day and age, we're getting out of the virtual situation that we've been in for the last 30 years, where we're making MP3s and making movies, and now we're actually making real stuff. So it's definitely the whole thing is about makers and makers' faces. It's about all these different electronics and hardware and DNA and medieval weapons and things that go boom. And that was from Tom Khalil of the White House. So the first way of getting things out of our computers in the most simple way, in my opinion, is stenciling. This is a shirt that I made my nephew. So it's a way of saving money, being creative. And I got him a nice Triforce shirt. And all it took was a little bit of screen printing ink and making a really simple stencil form. And he loves it while he's playing the original Zelda. Now, it can also be a little more complex. My buddy does floors for various businesses. He'll do your garage if you need his business car. I'll get it for you later. But so he's doing a dance floor at this new club that was opening up in Olathe. So he had a picture of just kind of a design that was on a floor from a really cruddy picture. So I took that cruddy picture and I put it into just any kind of basic gem shop, any kind of Photoshop. And with that ability, you're able to make kind of a really symmetric, yet asymmetric kind of perfect design. I then took a projector, a lot like this one, and put it onto two pieces of foam core and then cut that out with an exacter knife. And he used that as a stencil to paint the dance floor. So it's a great way of getting a design out of his mind, into the computer, and then back out again. So stenciling is some of the easiest ways to get that done. And so in this case, it's DIY to make money instead of saving money. So another way is that this is my Romney L. lantern I made last year. So I'm taking any picture from the web and then using gem shop, the posterized tool, to make it real contrasty and black and white, and then putting that picture on the side of a pumpkin and cutting out the highlights. So this is how I do my jack-o'-lanterns every year. The year before, brown back-o'-lantern. He actually saw this picture, because my friend works at the capital and he actually liked it, which I wasn't really what I invented. Okay, so a little more advanced way of getting fits into Adams. If there was one thing I think that you guys would walk away with right now and think that you could bring back to your library that's inexpensive would be the silhouette cameo. It is a plotter and a cutter. This is what the hype team maker space is using in Detroit. It's one of the first things they bought with their grant money. So you can use this to cut all kinds of various types of materials. You can make cards out of it. And if you can see it on the side, it's so precise that you can actually use those little pieces that it cuts out in your design just as well, so for scrapbooking. Those vinyl stickers that cost a whole bunch. Or if you've ever been to like a county fair and you see all the country kids buying the stickers for their truck and paying like $15 for, they can be making their own. You can cut fabric pieces out. You can do heat transfers. You can even do temporary tattoos with this. One of the great things about it is that after I print out a color picture, the silhouette cameo can then align that image so that it can cut that same image out. Cutter, plotter, again, this is a little more advanced tool. I almost show you just to see the price difference. This is something that's used for cutting wood. So this is $4,000, a little bit more than your 3D printer. But look at the things you can make with something like this, a huge dinosaur, kids toys. This is actually was a 3D design for a printer and this fella instead used it to cut out the wood. So that's actually removable gears inside there. All of these things are worth lots of money. You can sell them as artisans. I have a friend who's a Lawrence police officer. This is not what he does day to day, but he spent something about that much money and he does it to cut reliefs. It makes his own designs. He does it just because he likes to be creative and it gives him just that sense when he's not working at his job that it can really be stressful to be a release. So it is kind of expensive, but these prices are going down. You can find CNC machines. That's computer numerical controlled machines that are routers. You can have them be blades. Pretty much it skies the limit. They can cut steel, wood as in this example. Place where people learn about technology and science outside the confines of work or school. Why are we talking about these in libraries? Papercraft. So another way, papercraft was super popular right around World War II when everything, rubber, all kinds of different things nobody could get their hands on. But paper you could use as much as you wanted. So magazines would print out these things and then people would go ahead and put it together. Well, with the donate of the internet where you can share all this information and really cheat printers, you can print out your own. So it could be simple things like the little kitty cat or the spire flowers and super marbles or even a toy that moves. So the Papercraft Museum is kind of the free open source community where you can find all these things. One of the best things about it is you can sort by how many pieces of paper it takes. So instead of being, I don't want to try the first time I'm making something where it takes 700 pieces of paper. I just want one that takes five pieces of paper. You can sort by that. Businesses, go figure, copier businesses are thinking, well, we should start our own because then people will print more. So Canon has their creative park and you can find lots of other prints the same way. And so really it's kind of like the commercial versus the kind of community driven sites but you'll find both. And even some of the same designs kind of cross back. So have a cure-up. This, let's make Papercraft models from three dimensional data. So what you can do with Pepe Kira is you can take a 3D design just like we're using to make objects from a 3D printer and then you can take it and it will show you how you would unfold it in pieces of paper. For example, on the left side, that's the 3D model and that's how the pieces would be that you would cut out and instructions for putting it all together. This is Yoda, he was probably like 5,000 pieces. This guy on the right started off as a Papercraft model. He then uses Bondo and all kinds of other lacquers and epoxies to make this into something that he can actually stand on that helmet but it was based out of paper because it's something that you can model easily and that's why they like it a lot because you can really work with it just like cardboard, it's quick and fast. So there's a whole giant community of this type of thing making all these and it really kind of goes towards the Papercraft, props type thing. There's this whole argument if you've done it with threads about whether or not what they're doing is art or not. If you see the kind of things that they do, I mean, I think it's pretty obvious that it is very much so art but since they're taking a design, printing it out, a lot of them are saying well we're not really doing art, we're crafty but this is a really easy way to get into 3D design and what does this cost more than you already have in your library or at your home right now? This is your printer already. It requires finding out what young people are doing after school and supporting it. What are they doing after school? Well, hopefully they're coming to our library. So it's about bringing your community together and finding out what kids are doing and bringing them these tools and making them aware of things like Papercraft or your silhouette cutter that you know that they might really enjoy making stickers out of it. So how can you use video projection? Many of you already have video projectors sitting around in some closet not being used except for when it comes time to have me or somebody else come to your library to do a presentation. So here's something they've done to engage the community. How they did this was kind of complex. They actually made a model and had spiders in it and videotaped it and then take that video and project it on the wall but it doesn't have to be as complex as this. I often think Connie's not here from Richmond Library. They love Halloween down in Richmond and I thought what a great idea. I would think this would really spark their imagination. So you can use video projectors as digital signage and lots of other ways that you can connect with people after hours when your library's closed as just something that brings the attention to your library. This is the astrological clock tower in Prague for their 600th anniversary. So in projection mapping, you're putting a projected image onto an irregular surface. So you're breaking up this image into lots of different parts and putting it on the image and that's how they allow to do the things like they're about to do right now when they separate the sides of the building and show you the gears that are running behind it. This is actually not completely outside of your ability. Video projection tool is free and open source. This is a tool that you can download on your computer and it allows you to put that image and break it up onto different surfaces. So usually like the clock tower in Prague that was done by an organization that works in video projection. But that doesn't mean that when your library has its 20th anniversary that you all can't come up with something spectacular like that to kind of show your history or the building blocks building your library up. Okay, so what else? I love this video on the left and since we're not running slow we can watch the whole thing. So this is a whole video they made with those tiny little Pico projectors that are starting to show up on foams and has little snap clam shells for your foams. So it's just your typical cop chasing. But they're doing it in a different way. Good, all right. So another example would be this digital graffiti here. What they use for this is they put a projector up on the wall outside of a giant building and then people with laser pointers just like this one but usually big long green ones. When they write on the wall the computer draws that stuff onto the side of the building and adds things like that drip that you see there to make it more like actual spray paint. So there's also software available for that for you to project on the side of your building or even on the inside of your building to use for your programming for teens down in the basement or wherever you're putting those teenagers. You know that's what they like to be. So I knew the library world but libraries started because they were things that they were at the library that you didn't have it perhaps books. So now we have these things that we can't afford like the 3D printer. Not everybody in the community can buy one and they don't even know if it's for them. They don't, until you get a chance to play with it and play with the software you don't know if you're any good at or if it's something that speaks to you. But that's what libraries have always been able to do is bring these resources to people that they didn't always have. So whether it's that paper cutter that we saw or even a CNC machine, it's letting them use it and find out if they like it. And that was from American Libraries. So this is the makey makey right here in this little box. What do they say on it? An invention kit for everyone. So what you get inside here is this little circuit board. This one happens to be broken otherwise I would have shown you might have been in a piano. It's supposed to be getting here today. They decided to give me a replacement. Awesome community with this thing. I got it on their forum. I said, this thing's broken. What else can I try? Is there a reset? And some guy gave me an idea and I was like, I tried it on another computer. I still can't find anything. Is it trash? Eventually the person who does all their, works with a company who distributes this saw that on the forum. She says, I think you actually have a bad circuit board. It doesn't happen very often. Why don't you go ahead and email me here and we'll get you to send out a new one right there. So awesome community. Not only do you have people with them helping each other, but you're even having the people who've developed it and designed it, going back and checking on the forum and seeing how their users are doing. So you get this USB cord that plugs into the board here. And then you get these little alligator clips that you can plug into things like your bananas or your pencil drawing like they did for the Pac-Man. Really the sky's the limit and that's the whole idea of this is it's not just about making a banana piano or piano on the stairs or dance dance revolution. The idea is once you start playing with it, come up with all these other ideas because all you're really doing is making buttons for your keyboard. So it's a way of making the user interface more adaptable to us as humans and not us just tapping away to keyboard. This was developed also by the way, as a lot of these things are from the MIT Media Lab. This is one of the projects they worked on there in their graduate coursework. If you get into a lot of these maker tools, you start seeing how important the MIT Media Lab is to a lot of this development. You can spend a lot of time. By the way, at the very end of this, I'll show you the link to where all of my information that I've collected while working on this and it's just the nicles.org slash makers is the home for all of that. So there's a bunch of links for all these different things that we've been talking about and what products we've talked about, what community forums belong that go with them. Any questions about making-making? I know we're kind of moving quickly. It's cool. Yes, bought it online. When you go to the making-making site, you can buy it directly from there. So it couldn't be easier. This thing is a little pricey. It's about $30. I saw it. Yeah. It's reusable, right? You get, I believe, six alligator clips. Now, I didn't even tell you this. When you get tired of just using it with a controller pad thing on the front, you turn it around and there's all kinds of inputs on this thing. So it doesn't just have to be the six alligator clips. Once you kind of get used to an experience and you kind of play with the novelty stuff, there is a whole board stuff you can do here where you can plug it in. There's a mouse emulator on here so you can control a mouse movement with this thing. That's why I say this guy's really the limit on it once you start playing with it. Unfortunately, mine broke after about five minutes of playing with it. It doesn't make you very happy. Okay. Were you likely to have a Christmas spirit? Yes, I'm going with my Christmas spirit. This is the Dradeo off, actually within you and not at W. You can't buy the Dradeo, well, I guess you can't. The Dradeo is usually sold as a kit. It kind of goes back to the heyday when you read about makerspaces and evolution. You hear a lot about these heat kits that used to be really popular back in the 70s when people would actually build their own transistor radio. Same kind of idea. So what we get is this guy here. And I built this and I haven't done a whole lot of circuitry. In fact, I've never done any real circuitry. I've soldered some lights and stuff on my car or something that broke. But with this, you're actually putting the transistors and resistors on the board. So you're learning to solder at the same time. And then what you get, so anoint, right? So then, just like they did with that Atari thing is you, what I find is you use this big graphite pencil so you can get lots of graphite on the paper and you connect the circuit. So you know what your drawing sounds like. So, I mean, yeah, I mean, it's a really obnoxious little toy. No doubt about it. I mean, but it's, when you're the one holding it, it's a lot of fun. It's just not very fun to listen to. Just go ask my roommate, don't want to kill me. Okay, so here's the deal though. I've learned about soldering while doing this project. I've learned about circuitry. I've learned about just how electricity basically works. So this is real problem solving. This is building. This is the whole idea behind a major movement. So the whole idea, as we'll see later, is it's about not being so much a consumer, but you actually understand what's inside your device. You could buy something like this, I'm sure, from a Toys R Us that was all covered in plastic and you'd never understand what was going on on the inside. But with something like this, you actually do. This also came out of the MIT Media Lab. Just like that. Actually, it's the same guys. As you can probably see, there's a lot of kind of relation to these things. They had to draw to you first. And then makey makey. Which would breaky breaky. So just since we have plenty of time, what are the tools you need to start something like that? Well, this alligator clip thing, super handy when you're doing soldering. This cost me a whole $4 down at the hardware store on Mastery. That hurts the sun. If you couldn't find anything in there, but it's still an awesome place to go. So this is handy. This soldering iron. These can range in price quite a bit. You know, I could go up to like $20, but you get a lot more from it. You get various tips. And a little bit of solder. That's really all it takes. I highly recommend you look at these kind of things. These kits. So how to learn and build a flashy European siren. This kind of stuff was more popular when I was a kid and young, like 36 years old. So when I was a kid, really young, this kind of stuff was still popular. It is, but it's not, ever since the day and age of computers and video games and all these things, people started losing interest on building them. It became a lot easier to go out and buy stuff. And it wasn't so much about, well, I can get my train to Mr. Radio, I make myself and I could never afford that, but now I've got to train Mr. Radio. You'll hear a lot about that too, when you agree a lot about maker spaces or watch the webinars or get just involved with it. Just about how we kind of lost that as a culture in the last, say, 20, 30 years and the day and age of the almighty internet. So that's what the idea is to bring these bits that we've been so focused on back into Adams. Another product from a university, this is conductive ink. It's not quite ready yet. You're not gonna really find it for sale, but it's a silver-based ink so that you can draw circuits. So what those bright things are right there are LEDs. So they connect the battery and just like the graphite works, but this is a little bit more of a stable circuit. So you can consider this a soft circuit, but so this allows you to build circuitry very quickly and very easily. It takes away the scare factor of using a hot soldering iron, or I'm really gonna mess this up, that fear that some of us have. Squishy circuits. I saw this on a tech talk. This is something that you could go to your kitchen tonight to make. It's just like the Play-Doh, basically that my mom used to make instead of going to buy Play-Doh. Except for one conducts electricity and one resists electricity. Another great tool about learning about circuitry. You can build all kinds of circuits with this type of material. So it brings it down today, so we're not worried about hot soldering irons. It allows basically preschoolers to start learning about LEDs and batteries and how all of this works. And the instructions are linked to that to make this go. I haven't made it myself yet. Okay. E-textiles. E-textiles usually focus on one specific thing, and that would be conductive thread. So conductive thread is kind of what starts allowing you to build these, also known as soft circuits. You can put lights, motors on clothing. As you can see, there's lights on the shoes. There's things that's called muscle memory materials now. So we can start making living, organic clothing, beanbags. Obviously one of the things that's really important about e-textiles is that it really goes towards the gender who often doesn't go towards science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. This is a group they're trying to reach. Usually they kind of feel like things aren't made for them. But that's basic. Girls like clothes. I know that. I have scissors. But they also like doing things. You'll often hear them saying that girls really like to decorate things, and that's kind of what leads them into video games and programming a lot. A lot of the coding and programming stuff kind of gets towards that, because that's stuff that they relate to often. And I know this is generalizing quite a bit, and not everybody's like that. But it is a way of getting to some people that might otherwise not have any kind of interest, or think they might not be any good at. Didn't even realize that they would actually excel. And this book here is actually, I got my sister-in-law two Christmases ago. It's got some really great, just starting projects. My sister-in-law had about as much interest in e-textiles as anybody else that's in the library right now that's never heard of it. She didn't care about it. She didn't even know about it. But I knew that she really liked crafting, and she always makes my nephews' costumes every Christmas. And I was like, she's got to see this e-textiles book, because she's the perfect person when she's building these praying mantis costumes for my nephew. They like to add, you know, blinking lights, and, you know, one day, you know, happens to the praying mantis legs move on their own, that kind of thing. Okay, so circuitry more and more. The makey makey. You guys already know what an Arduino is. Even if you don't, that's what a makey makey is. It's based off Arduino. So all it really is, is a circuit board that allows inputs to be then turned into some sort of output. That's all the makey makey is doing. It gets an input from you, tapping the banana, and then it then sends it to the computer as a keyboard push, as you're hitting the letter W key. Definitely make sure. Okay, Arduino, this is what they say about it. They don't say a circuit board. They say, Arduino is an open source, electronics, prototyping, platform based on flexible, easy to use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. It's not made for scientists. It's not made for grad students. It's made for artists and hobbyists. That's the kind of things you're starting to see more often is that it's not so much this niche group. That's one of the wonderful things about where we are in technology right now is that things are starting to get easy enough that the creative people can start lending their senses to it. And that's when really the magic starts happening is when you can get that creativity pushed into it. So Raspberry Pi, I've heard about it a few times today. What is it? It's a Linux computer. Is it credit size, credit card size Linux computer? So why is it important? Well, it's important because first it's super cheap for a computer, $50. It hooks up with things you might already have like your TV, a keyboard and mouse that are extra, and a network cable. You then have a computer. Well, it's also important because it's a super tiny computer. What can you start doing with things when they're the size of this, a whole full-blown computer? You know, it can fit into weather balloons. It can fit into robotics. And just like with any of this, you're only hampered by your creativity to use it. So Educate to Innovate has been around for a couple of years and basically it's to try to reach people and bring them into the STEM field, science, technology, engineering and mathematics. It was getting a lot of bad press when they first started. The reason being is when they first started this program they were really trying to do it as a one-size-fits-all top-to-down program. And what you find with these types of things is it doesn't work like that. And now you're starting to see that they're embracing major fairs and maker spaces. They're starting to embrace it from a bottom up, a not one-size-fits-all up, you know, very particular to you type of way of reaching you. So that's why this program's important right now. It's also important to this quote to me because it says it's a combination or a collaboration between companies, foundations, nonprofits, science and engineering societies to native young people. So it's a group effort to do this. It's not just one tech shop that makes money for their membership. And it doesn't necessarily mean that nonprofits or libraries are in and alone, but it's a group effort to get to kids. But it's not just about kids either. I mean, how many adults do we know who have no direction in their life? I was one of them. Okay, 3D printing, that's what we thought we were gonna talk about the whole time. So 3D printing is in the age, it's very similar to where printing desktop publishing was in around 1985. Remember what printers were like in 1985? So it's still super early for 3D printers. However, as you guys, if you went down there, you can see some of the things that we're able to do. 3D printing allows really for the almost the first time additive manufacturing. So almost everything we've ever done as far as the industrial revolution ever goes, we've always been doing subtractive manufacturing. We cut things out and then we're left with an object. Every once in a while we did some additive things like welding rods together and stuff like that. But really, this is the first time we're building it something up. The MakerBot Replicator 2 is what was down the hall. It's $2,200 basically. Talk to Meredith, about three grain would get you set up with all the equipment you need. The Hubify was featured at South by Southwest. It's a little bit cheaper. So there's lots of different types of 3D printers. Some of them are more kits where you build them together. Some of them are more expensive than this. The thing to think about is desktop 3D printers. 3D printers have been around for a long time. It's that nether the desktop model. Same thing when we were talking about the CNC machines. It's now talking about desktop models. So that means that the every average man, the guy that I mentioned who's a Lawrence Police Officer who that's not his field, he's not a carpenter, but he can buy that and have that in his workshop. Okay, so some of the great things about 3D printers that I was kind of talking about it when we were in the room is the scalability and customization of these designs. I can get a design off the internet and I can change its scale so that it fits my needs. I can shape, I can get download like a, they always use this example of like a lamp. Like a lamp shade. And you can take that design and tweak it so it's in your liking. So that's one of the benefits of it is you get to really customize these things when you're starting to do 3D printing. That opening software thing that I showed you was basically can turn directly into a 3D print. So the software is, as long as you have the 3D data, you can create your own 3D printer printout. And I would say there's definitely a learning curve with that type of stuff. It's probably easier for your average person to start by going to a site and downloading a 3D data and then start printing it, picking out their favorite things. And you will find stuff uploaded that has to do with about every kind of subject you can think of. These scanners, so desktop scanners, they're not really quite here yet. In six months, you'll see like at least two brands I know that'll be shipping by then. MakerBot, it was the replicator producer. They're putting a 3D scanner. So what does a 3D scanner allow you to do? It allows you to take an object and then share that object with everybody across the world for all time to see. So it's just, of course, I always think of like the Star Trek replicator type thing. I mean, that's the part of how you get the information in. You don't have to necessarily build it to this complicated software I was talking about. So if you had some sort of figurine or some sort of architectural feature that you wanted to share and preserve, you can use something like a 3D scanner to then share that with everybody else and then they can print out their version. Okay, so now we're talking about 3D modeling. How do you make it? Probably one of the easier ways to do it is Sketchup. That used to be on my Google. It's now on my Trimble. It's really a good tool for beginners and intermediate users to start making this 3D modeling software. It starts giving you the language of what 3D modeling uses to be created. It also works really well with products like Google Earth. I was just reading an article last night about this guy who was using, Google Earth really wants to flesh out all those flat buildings that you see from the flyover view. And so what they're using is this product or products like it to then build what they actually look like in three-dimensional form. So it's definitely, if I were to start with something that's never used any kind of 3D modeling software, I'd probably have to start with this and build a square or a cube. Sorry, I'm thinking too much. Okay, Blender is what I use for the opening sequence. This is open source software and open source seems to always have these great communities behind them. And that's no different with Blender. Tons of forums for it. If you're having trouble for trying to figure out how do I animate this thing that I just made, you're gonna find tons of resources. There's also a bunch of plugins because it's all the code's open source that anybody can make a certain plugin to do whatever they want. So I highly recommend if you've got somebody who seems really smart with design and they've never tried 3D modeling, get them started with Sketchup and then definitely let them see Blender. I had a lot easier time jumping into Blender because I've used software like Maya before and Maya is a professional animation software, basically. Stuff that they use to make Toy Story. But you can actually do that with something like Blender. Okay. So Autodesk, makers of CAD programming, been around all my life, super specialized for the professional. Well, now they're branching out. Most of these are apps either for just the iPad or iPhone. A lot of them have their PC components too. So they've made this whole range of apps that have to do with 3D modeling and 3D printing. The first one is Catch. I told you that my desktop scanners really aren't there right now. But what Catch does is you take several pictures with your iPhone or iPad and then it takes all those pictures and groups them together so that you then have 3D modeling image. It's really awesome to see, to go through and take a picture of like, say a sculpture from every bit of angle that you can. And then what you have on your iPad is this image that you can turn around and look at from every angle. You can even get on the inside of it and look out at the space of it. It is a sculpture. Personally. Sculpt is virtual clay. You start off with basically a ball of clay and then you push and pull on your iPad to make something out of it. That's a free one. That's a free one. One, two, three, D creature is new and it kind of works with Sculpt. It is not free. And that gives you all the added benefits of doing things like adding scales and teeth. So you can make little monsters with it. But it's pretty much just like Sculpt. The same kind of ideas. You're using really human type sculpting tools you're pushing, you're pulling. One, two, three design is a 3D modeling kind of beginner software, kind of like SketchUp. But it's something that you can use on your computer or your iPad. And then one, two, three, D make is the software. Whenever we're talking about 3D printing, we're taking the 3D data and we put it in the printer but there's an intermediate step between that. What we have is what they call slicer software. Slicer software takes this 3D image and it tells the printer how are you gonna build that? It says, is the inside gonna have some sort of honeycomb on the inside for support? Is it going to be completely dense? So that's what one, two, three, D make is. It's basically the slicer software. Autodesk has paired with MakerBot. So they're partners. So I can take this data and I can have it be created on my MakerBot very easily. But also partner with lots of companies who will print more things and then send them to you. And that's when we get to services. Instead of services, we could almost call these marketplace. That probably is a better term. So there's four, I think kind of main ones. Shapeways is actually the one I think I hear about the most. What these services pretty much all allow you to do is they allow you to upload your 3D data. They allow you to look at other people's data. So it's like a gallery. They let you download that data from other people. You can have them create something either from your image or not image, data, or somebody else's. And they'll usually do this in lots of different materials. They'll do it in multicolored sandstone. They'll do it in metal, plastic. Really, there's tons of materials they'll do it in. And they obviously charge you quite a bit usually for creating those things, which is nice when you have your own 3D printer and can make it yourself because these services are pretty expensive. Okay, so resources. Fangerverse is kind of the community for Maker Pop. It's been around for several years, I think, 2008. So it's got a huge amount of 3D data objects that are on there that you can download from or you can add to it. And then just like all these other communities, all this kind of feedback back and forth to share. Facebook and Google+, are actually great places to learn more about 3D printing. There's tons of communities. They're not all library-centric, but some of them are about makerspaces in libraries or 3D printing. Make Magazine is, you know, you can get a lot of credit to Make Magazine about where we're at with the Maker movement right now. It really kind of led the way since their publication started. They give you all kinds of different projects to work on, resources to kind of grow with, kind of behind the Maker fairs that all started across the country. 3deers.org claims to be the source for 3D printer and printing news. So, and there's a ton of other resources too. And of course those will be listed on the website or already there. So, this is something that I feel very strongly about in general, because I've always been a maker in my life. I didn't even realize that's what it was. I had my dad's work bench down in the basement and I would play with his tools and probably almost shoot at my eye over and over again. I would take things apart all the time to see how they worked, and usually didn't even learn about much how they worked. But you know, it was always something that I cared about a lot. And you know, when I think about how there are people out there who are out of work, who are under skill, who haven't even decided they're going to go to college. In this day and age when junior highs and high schools no longer have tech shop anymore, as technology gets a lot easier to use even, we become more distanced from what it's actually doing. As we start having iPads and apps and all these things and technology starts to be about Facebook, then you're no longer learning about all the things that are going underneath. So, it's a call and I'm glad that Obama sees that, you know, if we were a nation of tinkerers, then we would also be, you know, have a commodity worldwide to share. So, it's really about, you know, as patriotism about the United States and about where can, you know, what can we make of our country and our infrastructure? And really I'm thrilled that people are starting to kind of embrace this makers movement. And I'm super thrilled that at Neckles I get to kind of be the makerspace guy. It's pretty awesome. I had no idea that, you know, that was even something, you know, two years ago. So, you know, if you have any questions, definitely at any time, even if it's not right now, drop me a line. I know Elizabeth was just talking, you know, about what would it take for us to get a 3D printer and, you know, couldn't we just share one between the four libraries of, you know, Southern Kansas City? Well, it seems pretty doable. So, you know, definitely you need more feedback. Let me know. And I would love your feedback too, because I'm going to be doing this presentation in some form at the library information technology associations meeting next fall. Well, the good thing is that most of them have awesome communities behind them. And so really you just kind of have to put them out there and let them try. I mean, really the first part of it is getting in there and getting your hands dirty. You know, it's like, you don't have to be amazing at it the first time. You know, if I want to learn about circuitry and I want to buy a kit, you know, if it doesn't work, well, then that's a learning experience too. I found out, well, I'm not very good at circuitry. I need to get better at soldering. Or, you know, I need to be more careful and follow directions better next time. But really almost each of these tools has like just like the paper craft, huge community of things. And there's all kinds of threads that go online and like, hey, like there was the one about the Yoda, that Yoda picture. There was this guy like, I didn't tell you about what they're doing with that. Okay, so, little backstory, real facts. When they get those pictures, or when they get that image, what they're usually doing with that paper, is they're taking 3D data from video games and pulling it out and then building those things out of paper. Because video games are all, all the characters are made of polygons. So they strip that data out of there. Well, what I saw in the Yoda thread was because this was data that came from a video game, the part right here in his armpit didn't quite match up. And so this guy's like, hey, you know, my Yoda, the face looks great. His robe's working really good. That's things like this tall. The time to probably spend on this is like a month, at least. And he's like, but I can't get the arm to fit right. And then there's, you know, a huge long thread. People are like, well, I would suggest, go ahead and put the robe part together, build the arm separately, and then kind of attach it to the side. So I mean, you just kind of have to get in really, this whole thing is about getting people that are interested in the same things together. So it's not about, oh, I'm the librarian, I'm gonna teach you guys about how to use a 3D printer today. It's about, there's a guy in our community who's been doing this stuff for two years already, and I'm gonna bring him in, and he's gonna be your mentor. It's about bringing like-minded people together so that they can share that information. Anybody else have a question? Yes. Are you familiar with Cookie Caster? Cookie Caster, no. Heather told me I should mention it. Heather said, if you wanna reach these people, tell them about Cookie Caster. Well, everybody, whenever I talk about 3D printers, somebody's like, well, give me a practical example. I'll let you say what Cookie Caster is. Okay, so Cookie Caster that Heather told me I should say, and he reminded me. So what do I do with 3D printers today? Right now, the resolution stinks on them. They might not be very good for replacement parts right now because if I wanted to make a part for my dishwasher, because maybe it would break, but what they're finding a really popular service is to make these customized cookie cutters. So that's what Cookie Cutter is, is that good? How do you control people from making things, like dead parts and knives? You know, I mean, how do you ever control people from doing that? You know, it's, haven't people always been able to do things that they weren't supposed to do? You know, by giving people knowledge, you're not necessarily saying that I'm responsible for what they do, in my opinion. I mean, and we're not teaching people how to build bombs, you know, it's, we're not putting, and that information is already out there. But what you are doing is people are learning skills and hopefully, this is the case, hopefully when people start learning about things and start becoming productive members of society because hey, I've got a skill now, they're not gonna wanna do things like that. You know, that's the hope in my opinion. It's sort of like an age of invention. Definitely. And this Maker's book, if you guys haven't read it yet, I definitely could go to your book or read it, like Christian Anderson, I think. He talks about his grandpa. His grandpa was an inventor when he was growing up. He invented a sprinkler. But he was never able to be the person who was selling. He was never an entrepreneur. And so what they're saying in this day and age, not only can you be the inventor, but you can be the entrepreneur too. You don't just have to develop a sprinkler system and then sell it off. Another thing they say is, there's no more in the new age, general election and all these other giant corporations because everything is so specialized and customized. That's the future. But you're right, it is. It's an age of inventing again. They're referring it a lot, at least in that book, as the third industrial revolution. You know I have so many questions. First thing is, we can't afford to make a bot in all that in a small library. So what I was looking toward was building our own. And I know that there are instructions. You know you follow instruction, you put things together. It can't be that difficult. There are some really dumb people that I've seen that put these things together and they work. But let's say a library only had maybe $250 to spend. What would you suggest that you start with? I think that material cutter is a good thing to start with because then you're dealing with things like fabric and cardboard and you're starting to get to experience these things. That you're starting to deal with 3D data. You could just as easily use that material cutter with papercraft to cut out all those parts for you so that you're not sitting there with the design. So I mean I think that those are some great entry tools. Another thing I think is finding, maybe all these things can't be in the library. Some of them are loud, some are dirty, some of them are dangerous. But that doesn't mean that you can't provide to them, hey, did you guys know that there's instructions for building your own 3D printer and having a whole section of your library dedicated to that so that people are aware of it. But having never built a 3D printer from instructions, I'm not gonna sit there and say it sounds like the easiest thing in the world to do. But it is possible. But I've seen them where they've even used glue bands as the extruder to cut out the filament. Right. I mean, it's, why not? And what do you really have if it fails miserably? Everybody that was involved learned something that they didn't know before. And the next time they do it, they're not gonna make the same mistakes they made before. And you can also then put all that information up on your website so that the next person or on the forums that go along, so they learn from your mistakes too. I mean, there isn't really, unless you're breaking bones or burning down the library or the community, what's the worst that really happens? That's kind of my opinion. I mean, my house in Orville Park, my dad lives and it's still standing. And I don't know how many things I did that I should have never done. Anybody else? Yeah. The thing that I was reading about the Cricut machine that is cheaper, it doesn't seem like it really gives you the customers they own. You're pretty much downloading these patterns and then just printing them off and buying them. So if it was me, I'd buck up the extra $150, they'd get something that you could actually take your own designs and start creating. That's more of a, in my opinion, kind of cookie cutter kind of example. And I mean, it's definitely for scrapbookers. There's a money-making thing for scrapbookers. And if you're gonna put that much money into a product, your minds will make a product that can be used for violence stickers, temporary tattoos, and all this stuff that's kind of hot right now for the team's faces. So then you're talking about the silhouette cameo? Yeah, that's the cutter I was talking about. And there's a lot of potters out there and cutters. It's not a really new technology. What's new is the price and the size. Okay? Thank you. All right, thanks guys.