Fab Lab

Templates for making boxes and cards.

Making papercraft models from 3D data. Works with Craft-ROBO.

Waybe is pretty cool but a tad bit expensive. This video shows just what it does...

Waybe is a plug-in for Google SketchUp that provides a simple toolbar to aid both automatic and manual unfolding of 3D models created within SketchUp. The ability to test unfolds directly within SketchUp allows for faster design cycles, and an interactive print window can fit all unfolded components onto a minimum number of printed pages. Custom page sizes make it possible to scale folded models to any desired size from desktop printers to large plotters.

spex Tabs is an easy 3D software for drawing 3d shapes, printing out the nets of shapes and making 3d paper models. Suitable for pupils aged 6 - 14 years, its an inspired educational software for children which meets a real need in the classroom, and it is great fun for making 3D paper models at home too! aspex Tabs will display the orthographic projection of the model you design, in both the 1st and 3rd angle projection.

Create Polyhedra and Nets! Platonic, Archimedean, Catalan, Kepler-Poinsot, uniform, and dual polyhedra, their stellations, and polyhedron nets

Cubeecraft (pronounced "kyoob-ee") papercraft toys are FREE to download. Each toy features interlocking tabs for construction - eliminating the need for tape, glue or other messy adhesives. To download click on the model you would like then save the template image. Each toy is designed to be printed on a standard piece of 8 1/2 X 11 A4 letter paper.

Small Stella, Great Stella and Stella4D are computer programs which let you create and view polyhedra on the screen, then print out the nets required to build your own models out of paper. Small Stella has a fixed list of built-in models and can print out nets for over 300 polyhedra.

Wikispace account fro Crozey ES's Scratch program. Crozet will be posting some of their digital fabrication resources on this site.

Wikispace account fro Crozey ES's Girls AfterSchool Initiating New Studies program. Crozet will be posting some of their digital fabrication resources on this site

This page describes physical objects corresponding to geometric constructions (and methods for creating such objects).

David Burghardt writes, "My quest to improve technological literacy in K-16 education has been the unifying theme of my work for more than a decade. This quest shapes the research I perform, the texts I write, the courses I create, the departments I chair, and of course, my teaching. I have had the good fortune to direct several multi-million dollar grants from the National Science Foundation over the past twelve years. Of the 11 books I have written, the two most recent focus on engineering and design. I have created courses on Children's Engineering, ELED 239, and the Impact of Technology on Society, TPP 201. I created and co-direct the Center for Technological Literacy, chair the Engineering Department, and am working with my students to create active teaching/learning classrooms. "

This is an online, shared folder of files for the Craft-ROBO. Users can download the files.

Informed Design follows the traditional design process, but uses guided research and investigation to build student knowledge and skills required for the design. These Knowledge and Skill Builders (KSBs) are the heart of the Informed Design process. They assist students in learning key concepts in mathematics, science and engineering/technology that are related to the design challenge.

The Shapeways site provides access to 3D metal printing.

Hod Lipson is a professor of engineering at Cornell who has established an open source fabrication initiaitve, Fab @ Home.

Workflow model for making a craft-robo shape from a vector art file. Tools needed include Adobe Illustrator and Fireworks.

Vectorart.org offers free vector illustration file downloads. All of their vector art downloads are free to use under Creative Commons 3.0. There is not a whole lot to choose from, but there is some good stuff.

Vectorart.org offers free vector illustration file downloads. All of our vector art downloads are free to use under Creative Commons 3.0