Learn by doing
What you'll Build
🙌 Hands-on expertise in printing plastics on a real 3D printer*
A methodology for optimizing any 3D printing process
An essential understanding of the "what it's made of ♻️" and the "how to make it 🧰" of 3D printing.
🤗 A meaningful artifact for someone that you care about by taking an idea of your own from concept, to design, to manufacturing and customer delivery.
The Minimum Viable 3D Printing Story
The 3D printing industry is growing more mature all the time.
🏫 Our schools can't keep up with teaching all the printers 🖨️, materials ⚛️, and applications 🏘️🏎️✈️.
No wonder.
📰 What was new last year is old news this year in our rapidly evolving technological world.
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That's why no one cares about degrees anymore 🎓.
Employers want to see what you've done; what you can build; how you can create value for them with these new tools.
After decades of teaching and learning, we've realized that it really takes only minimally viable skills to get initiated and start making an impact.
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However, today's high-tech is tomorrow's low-tech, and to create value for others you first have to be able to create value for yourself.
📚 Lifelong learning is required in the 21st century.
So this course represents a starting point.
An opportunity.
A launchpad 🚀.
By the end of this lite-edition, you'll know if you're ready to your 3D Printing game to the next level.
And for those of you who are, we expect that you'll find some aspect of this course that you can dedicate some future learning to.
That's the best we can hope for.
That's Minimum Viable.
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And if you end up not finding anything in this course that truly interests you, then you've at least created a meaningful experience for someone that you care about, and you've figured out a lot of what not not to do in the next stage of your life's journey.
In either case, happy adventuring towards Unautomatable You!
Cheers,
Greg Loughnane, Unautomatability Educator
Experienced Instructors
Dr. Greg Loughnane has a decade of university teaching experience in Ohio, and Mr. Justin Lai has spent the last seven years as an engineering instructor in Hawaii after graduating from MIT.
The Most Popular 3DP Technique
Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF), also called Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), is the most popular method of 3D printing, the easiest to get up and running, and the perfect way to start learning.
Project Meaningful
Your capstone project in this short course will walk you through conceptualizing, designing, fabricating, and delivering a meaningful product to someone that you care about.