Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
3D Printing a Maker Space
Home: Washington, United States
AMakerDad is Terence's youtube channel and website. By day, Terence is an opto-mechanical engineer for a medical device company. By nights and weekends, Terence serves on the board of directors for SnoCo Maker Space (www.snocomakers.org) and comes up with projects that he can build with his two young sons, Zach and Ethan. From 3D printed tooling for pinewood derby cars and pool noodle training lightsabers, to functional hydroponics gardens and laser cut airplane launchers, Terence shares out both his native CAD files as well as tips for recreating these projects at home, or at your favorite local maker space. Recently, SnoCo had a falling out with a long term member, and have to rebuild a lot of their equipment. Join Terence as he rebuilds a makerspace with his trusty 3D Printer!
https://www.amakerdad.com/
Maker
Terence Tam
Terence is an optomechanical engineer by day, and a maker / tinkerer at night. He serves on the SnoCo Makerspace's board of directors, and loves sharing his knowledge of making with everyone, especially with his two young kids.
https://www.amakerdad.com/What Inspired You to Make This?
Recently, SnoCo MakerSpace had a falling out with a long term member, and had to replace a bunch of equipment. And since we are rebuilding, we are taking the opportunity to "build back better". From custom CO2 lasers to woodshop ventillation to distributed IOT sensor network for our maker space, we are building our maker space back to be better than ever before. My children are growing up in a vastly different world than I did. While my creations as a child were limited to the occasional toilet paper tube, tin foil and scotch tape, my children had always had a fabrication robot or two in their lives. In fact, my youngest, at the age of 4, can walk into our garage and identify which parts were 3D printed on the filament printer, which parts were resin prints and which parts were laser cut. Yet, high quality, open source maker projects aim at kids and teaching scientific principles are hard to come by. AMakerDad.com is my personal mission to change that. Some of what I do, such as making a DIY digital pinhole camera for capturing a solar eclipse and 3D printing pinewood derby tools, will be educational. Others, such as my pool noodle training "lightsabers", not so much. But they will all be fun - and I aim to make them accessible to anyone with a hobby level 3D printer, or access to a local maker space.
