Explore the journey of Digital Knowledge Center fellows through their personal reflections and documentation of their fellowship projects.
Most Recent Fellows Posts
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It’s a date!!
We finally have a date to cut the plexiglass for the flume! The design that we have decided on is 72″ long, and 10″ wide. One of the unique things about the opportunity the DKC has given me, is that I’m able to be present for all of the steps of the building process. Usually, […]
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Tenor Drone (Nearly Complete)
Hello!!!!!!! I have lots to share, so buckle up! I’ve been focussing on the bell of the tenor drone. The bell is the space inside the top of the drone that acts as a resonating chamber, amplifying the sound. It is essential to ensure this part of the process is not overlooked, as the drones […]
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What’s a Flume?
Who am I? I’m Boone Fleenor, a sophomore here at Mary Washington studying Applied Physics and Mathematics, and I am a new DKC Fellow. A large portion of my education has been dedicated to the research, understanding, and application of fluids, namely water. In physics, we call this the Fluid dynamics. Last semester, I began […]
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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 […]