Fellows Process Blogs

Explore the journey of Digital Knowledge Center fellows through their personal reflections and documentation of their fellowship projects.

Most Recent Fellows Posts

  • Huzzah!!!! New printer!

    Hello! I am writing to you from room 461 of the Jepson Science Center, wherein I have been calibrating and testing Rebecca’s Anycubic Mega X large-format printer for the past hour or so. I wasn’t able to print on it last week because someone ran away with the SD card that had the calibration gcode […]

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  • Drone Tops (Nearly Done)

    Hi there! It’s AJ again! Today, I spent a good amount of time finishing up, and refining, the beading and combing on both the Tenor and Bass tops. Hammering this out now is going to make the next few pieces 10x easier. (now that I know what I want them to look like, it can […]

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  • Bass Drone Top

    Hello again! Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working on stretching out the tenor drone top model into the bass drone top. I figured this would be easy, because as I mentioned, I thought it was as simple as just stretching out the tenor drone top to the length of the bass drone top. […]

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  • Tenor Top Update

    Hello! I’ve been away for a little bit of time, with Thanksgiving break and all, but I am back! My first major update is that we had our first UMW Eagle Pipe Band practice in a while this past Wednesday, the 29th. I hadn’t shown off the tenor drone top to the other EPB members […]

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  • Tenor Drone Top

    This past Friday (11/3/23), I began printing the updated tenor drone top print, this time, in the correct size! I had a bagpipe competition in Richmond, VA early Saturday morning, but I let myself into the DKC and pulled it off the printer after nearly 13 hours of printing. The tree supports looked fantastic, as […]

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