UPLAND, Calif. — When it comes to dinosaurs, fourth grader Tyler Guglielmo is a fan.
“This is a triceratops, it’s a baby. This one we just printed whole,” he said while holding a 3D printed dinosaur he designed on his laptop computer. It’s one of 26 dinosaurs Tyler has designed and printed through “Be A Maker Club,” an online maker space that helps creators turn ideas into physical objects.
Maker spaces are physical places where people can develop ideas and projects by using things like hand tools, a wood cutting machine or a 3D printer, and they are typically only accessible to adults. But through the online maker space, Tyler learned how to use computer-aided design, or CAD, software to design his own creation. Once he’s finished, the design is 3D-printed at a remote location and mailed to Tyler.
The entire process is overseen by Zef Neemuchwala, who launched “Be…
