Kailey Allan, Digital Fabrication and Design instructor and faculty researcher, Selkirk Technology Access Centre, shows a few of the student-designed prototypes on display along the main floor of the college campus in downtown Trail.
“What you see is the final product,” Allan explains. “What you don’t see are the several pieces of furniture that had to happen and the learning that had to happen before the beautiful final product … our students first use the laser cutter and use miniatures to test concept ‘how does this assemble and how do you put it together, how does it look aesthetically’ and then we’ll move into the bigger machines where we will use more materials.”
Students often use cardboard and hot glue to make their smaller models, which are called proof of concept.
“This is something that we want students to do in the real world as well — there’s so much value in making things with cardboard. It’s cheap, you can do it from home and you can get a lot of information from building that little piece of furniture by cutting cardboard and hot gluing in together.”
Allan adds, “We want to do our mistake making for as little cost as possible.”
See story and more photos on Page 10 of today’s (April 4) Trail Times newspaper.
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