Join us in the Digital Scholarship Innovation Studio (DSI) on the Lower Level of the Science & Engineering Library for an exciting afternoon showcase featuring fascinating student projects, engaging student talks, and interactive make-and-takes—all using digital scholarship technology in our space.
Get a glimpse of all that is possible for UCSC students with 3D printing, laser cutting, holographic design, and more in this interactive open house!
Questions? Email us at digitalscholarship@ucsc.edu.
Art, 4th Year
This 3D model of a skatepark was designed in SketchUp and fabricated in the DSI. A skatepark is a stage that enables the practice of unconventional art practices. A public space where people can experiment and learn with each other. We need spaces like this to empower creative thinkers, problem solvers, and activists.
Project Technology: SketchUp, Fusion 360, Bambu Studio, Bambu Carbon X1
Robotics Engineering, 2nd year
I'll be showing off the dreamoc diamond, and going over the use of 3D software.
Project Technology: Blender mostly
Biomolecular Engineering and Bioinformatics, 2024
1. From Videogame Mesh Maps To Filament - Legion's Mask from Dead by Daylight
2. Kitbashing & Infill Refinement - Unfolding dice tower for tabletop games
Project Technology: Mostly Blender & Bambu Studio
Art and Design, Games and Playable Media (AGPM), Senior
My project centers on printing 3D-printed replicas of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures. Utilizing mostly 3D scans of museum exhibits, these replicas meticulously depict various skeletons, attempting to capture details while sidestepping the fragility and costliness of genuine fossils. Printing to scale is a particular focus of the project and allows for more accurate depiction. The goal is to make fossils more accessible, and to spread interesting information about these prehistoric creatures.
Project Technology: 3D printers, Morphosource, Thingyverse, Sketchfab
4th Year Applied Physics/Sustainability minor
I am going to 3d print some spiny stuff that looks cool, lots of gears and stuff you know the gist.
Project Technology: 3d printers
Computer Engineer, Junior(3rd year)
My project is focused on the ability to 3D print objects that can be used as decorum in a space. These objects can range from simple solid objects such as plants to objects that use illusion. 3D printing allows for people to implement different looks and designs for things that are seen on a daily basis. A specific example is the Aloe vera plant with the pens, as it looks like a normal house plant, but has a functional use.
Project Technology: 3D Printing
Business Management Economics, class of 24 (senior)
I've always wanted to build a guitar and learn the skills behind setting up and maintaining a one. The 3D printed guitar used 3d printing to print the body and laser cutting to cut the pickguard. I'm interested in projects that combine the different tools that we have access to in the DSI. I've worked on this project in collaboration with Slugworks, using some of their tools to 3d print, solder, and engrave. This has helped us build relationships with SlugWorks and understanding how they approach access to their tools.
Project Technology: 2D design tools, laser cutting, 3d design, 3d printing, soldering, hand and power tools
Agroecology 2nd year transfer student
Instagram @ucsc.sankofaskyfarm and @cultivatesc
Sankofa Sky Farm is a sustainable research project at UCSC. I am creating a self-contained, closed-loop vertical farming system. The research conducted at UCSC is meant to help inform my social enterprise efforts to build skyscraper farms in urban and rural communities burdened with food apartheid. I conducted a 3D model illustrating the concept of a skyscraper farm in an urban setting.
Project Technology: 3D printers, lazer cutter, circuit
Second Year, Computer Science Game Design
This is a concept that can be applied to any print that used multiple filament for any given reason. This is something I have been testing for most parts of a the year , I have been looking for tips to make multicolor prints more accessable and less wasteful in terms of time and plastic. I would say these are meaningful tips as these ideas can be applied to a future generation of printers by default while also encouraging different types of prints like hue forge (2D or 3D images that you can make without using alot of filament). All of this is achieved with playing around the settings in the Bambu slicer (I still working on a doc about flush volumes).
Project Technology: Bambu slicer, stl editing softwares like blender and Bambu maker world for reference files
The land on which we gather is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma.
The land acknowledgement used at UC Santa Cruz was developed in partnership with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band Chairman and the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program at the UCSC Arboretum.
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