Running Cornell's DLA Makerspace

From 2021 through 2022 I managed the fabrication lab for Cornell’s Department of Landscape Architecture in CALS. The lab had a pair of Ultimaker S3s (Ada and Greta), an S5 (Fender), a ShopBot Buddy 32 CNC router, and two Epilog Edge 50W CO2 laser cutters (Freddie and Vaux). Yes, I named all the machines.

I developed curricula covering rapid fabrication from digital design through machine setup, material selection, and iteration. I also built dlamaker.space as the lab’s home base and set up a GitHub org, Discord, and custom Cura profiles for our machines. During the same period I was serving as 3D Printing Captain at Ithaca Generator.