User:Leonardo Ernesto Bravo/Project Shellter

Project Shellter is the collaborative quest between Miles Lightwood/TeamTeamUSA and MakerBot Industries to create a crowd-sourced 3D printable hermit crab shell.

Genesis
The seed of the idea for Project Shellter occurred in 02010 during a conversation between Miles Lightwood and Bre Pettis in Los Angeles, California. During the intervening months, Miles Lightwood of TeamTeamUSA experimented with various techniques and processes in an attempt to create a 3D printable seashell. In early 02011, using the open source Sage mathematics software, Miles was able to create a parametric shell surface. Further attempts to create a 3D-printable solid from the shell surface were unsuccessful. It wasn't until August 02011 that Miles' colleague, Blake Senftner, suggested using 3DS Max as a means to transform the shell surface into a solid.

Execution
On Miles Lightwood pitched several ideas to MakerBot Industries for consideration their Artist in Residence program. Project Shellter was selected on 02011 and formally began on October 18, 02011 with Bre Pettis' publication of the "Project Shellter: Can the MakerBot Community Save Hermit Crabs?" article on the MakerBot Industries blog:

Two days later Neil G at Shareable.net posted an article about Project Shellter. It generated dozens of responses and was subsequently picked up by Engadget, Wired, Sierra Club, and many other websites/blogs.

On 2011, with the assistance of friend and librarian Joel Rane, Miles Lightwood contacted Dr. Katherine V. Bulinski at Bellarmine University to explain the project to her and request her participation as a research advisor. She agreed and

Videos Dropcam sponsored Project Shellter by donating Dropcam Echo cameras and two accounts. THe cameras were installed in both crabitats

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