[Blindmath] 3D printing used as a tool to explain theoretical physics

[Megan Holt]

I am an undergraduate physics major, education minor at Haverford College and I am working on a similar project for my senior thesis. We have a sophomore student at Haverford who is blind and is hoping to be a physics major. I am investigating the ways that we can use 3D printing to provide him with access to the visual, graphical, and 3D materials that are required for his upper level physics and math courses, particularly quantum mechanics and multi-variable calculus. If anyone has found anything particularly applicable to my project in their research, I would love to discuss it! Exciting stuff!

-Megan Holt

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> Den 09 Dec 2013 kl. 10:29 skrev "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>:
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> We are actually working on this at Wentworth. We started by modeling a basic graph, then moved to adding braille labels to it. what we have so far is a really cool version of a nice graph. I am hoping to be able to extend this with more research next semester.
>> On 12/9/2013 10:16 AM, Sean Tikkun wrote:
>> Thanks for the article.  I am actively pursuing 3D printing for science and math with blind students. I've gotten braille labeling outputted on models and am now looking at different topics to try out.  Seems like a perfectly good time to ask the list what do you wish you had a model of when you were learning science in school?  Look forward to the conversation!
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>> Sean Tikkun
>> Fellow, National Leadership Consortium on Sensory Disabilities
>> Northern Illinois University
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>> srtikkun at niu.com
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>>> On Dec 9, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Ken Perry <kperry at blinksoft.com> wrote:
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>>> I thought this group would find this interesting.
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>>> http://phys.org/news/2013-12-3d-tool-theoretical-physics.html
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