Awardee: Colin Echeverría Aitken
Semester of Award: 2024-2025
Materials Awarded: 3 Bambu AMS 2 Pro multi-material systems with required components, multicolored and multi textured materials for model building, calibration plate, and fine detail nozzles.
Project Description:
We have worked together with Asy Connelly and the Innovation lab to iteratively develop our capacity to build interactive three-dimensional molecular models. We are now able to produce a variety of multicolored, multicomponent, and/or multimaterial models of the macromolecules covered in courses such as BIOC 272 (Biochemistry). We have employed these models in hands-on demonstrations during lectures and small group activities. We are now focused on building out this library of models, as well as expanding to ever larger and more complex models. Asy Connelly has also put together a quick start user guide for the 3D printer and the software (ChimeraX) that enables production of printable files from atom-resolution molecular structures. They have also created an instructional video and an “account of a print,” that describes the process for producing a specific model (and how specific challenges were surmounted).