Do it Yourself Kits (DOK) for Additive Manufacturing (AM) for Educational Use

First, we look at available and affordable state-of-the-art DOKs for AM for educational use. We then start with the hypothesis that the active approach of rebuilding a 3D Printing model is of a more profound didactic impact, using the user’s more dynamic interaction. Each part can be felt by the users in the hands, seen, and utilized interactively by building the whole 3D printing system together, building an interactive representation of knowledge in his or her brain. While educating the theoretical aspects, this co-building process deepens the impact of learning, as all the machine parts are theoretically and practically learned by their user interaction. This then implements the Rapid Manufacturing approach in so far as AM is involved in the learning environment of this system itself, on the building and (possibly) construction level. Hence it is an explicit cybernetic second-order approach. For the educational purpose in DOK for AM, we give an example of a possible learning unit and introduce by this, for the first time, a universal new model of human deep learning.