Digital Design

Above are the initial design in TinkerCAD & the 3D print using a copper filament. Coding With TinkerCAD After teaching a semester of Digital Design I've had the opportunity to retool it this semester with several ideas and goals in mind that I've developed during the course of the year. I have especially thought about how our high-school students can be setup to approach a variety of classes in our curriculum with a unique perspective and set of tools that they've gained as a freshman in Digital Design. An exciting connection between algorithm and art is the new Codeblocks feature in TinkerCad. Creating geometric patterns of shapes in a recursive way leads our art to mimic a number of structures we find beautiful in nature, like the snowflake. This seemed like an ideal opportunity to guide my students in creating something beautiful while gaining an improved understanding of angles and recursive thinking. I screen recorded the video below during my firs