After one year of preparations, the fourth European Seminar on Computing (ESCO 2014) begins tomorrow! The meeting brings together over 250 leading experts in scientific computing and open source software. It takes place in Pilsen, a beautiful historical city in the Czech Republic. Proceedings of the conference will be published in Applied Mathematics and Computation
We just deployed a new web page that is more transparent about what NCLab is about. The changes are not finished, now we will continue with secondary pages.
NCLab empowers FutureCoders.us, a great coding initiative for kids at La Cañada Unified Schools in California. “After participating in the Hour of Code project, we realized that there wasn’t a clear follow-on plan. Future Coders is that follow-on plan! We have selected NCLAB.com. The kids each get an account for the Karel (the robot) Black
Few days ago, kids from the Schurz Elementary School in Mineral County School District, supervised by Jeremy Elsmore, designed a whistle. I was amazed by the idea of creating something that works. So far, all 3D models I saw were just for display. Here it is. The ball inside the chamber is cool. Once printed,
This fun example is a great intro to Solid Modeling: Students learn how to create 2D objects, use colors, rotate objects, move them, subtract them, and extrude 2D objects to 3D. Here is the Pacman with his Berry, and the self-explanatory PLaSM code follows below. Stay tuned, a new fully self-paced version of the NCLab
Remember – any K-12 school can make an appointment and visit us for a free one-day STEM workshop at UNR. If interested, fill this online form. Monday – We Visit Glenn Duncan STEM Academy Wednesday – Lemelson STEM Academy Visits Us Thursday – Sierra Nevada Academy Charter School Visits Us Friday – We Visit Cottonwood
NCLab will be presented at the ISTE 2014 Expo in Atlanta. We’ll be looking forward to meeting you at Booth 3626! We will be showing our self-paced online STEM courses as well as many cool 3D prints of designs created by K-12 students.
This Saturday we participated in a STEAM Expo at the Coral Academy of Science in Reno. For those who do not know, STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics. The Expo was impressive. Our estimate of the attendance was well over a thousand people. Music could be heard everywhere, and it included a
NCLab will be part of the STEM EXPO at the Coral Academy of Science in Reno this coming Saturday at 9:30 – 1 pm. We will be showing sample 3D prints and how everyone can create them in NCLab using the free 3D modeling app. We will be also demonstrating other free STEM modules in
After several weeks of hard work we are proud to announce that the internals of PLaSM (NCLab’s CAD library) were rewritten to support object-oriented (OO) programming. As a result, many things got simpler. For example, to change the color of an object “obj” to “STEEL”, you can now type COLOR(obj, STEEL) as opposed to the