Robotic mini cars, a pressure-sensitive glove that can counts ‘high-fives,’ a plastic octopus created with a 3-D printer…
These and other enterprising prototypes originated in Red Deer College’s Makerspace — a design laboratory that allows imagination to merge with technological innovation.
The hands-on space, first created in 2015, has moved into a bright, brand-new location in the second-floor Information Common of the RDC Library. At the opening of the larger new Makerspace on Tuesday, Steven Lane, RDC’s association vice-president of academic, spoke about the advantage of students learning to build things in the real, instead of just virtual, world.
At a time when even graphic art can be done with the computer, Lane believes there’s value in learning to also design and build by hand. Makerspace “helps recover craft as an important skill set,” leading to…
