User:MilesLightwood/sandbox

= Project Shellter =

Teams TeamTeamUSA/Los Angeles Miles Lightwood Geri Lightwood Ava Lightood

MakerBot Industries/Brooklyn Bre Pettis Annelise Jeske Stef Shapira Keith Ozar Matt Griffin

Crabs All crabs involved in the project are of the species Coenobita clypeatus. @ShellterEast - Brooklyn Paris Shellton (chipped zigzag striped shell) Tori Shelling (smooth zigzag striped shell) Shellton John (shiny shell)

@ShellterWest - Los Angeles Karshellian

Formation
The genesis of the idea for Project Shellter occurred in 2010 during a conversation between Miles Lightwood and Bre Pettis in Los Angeles, CA when the latter was in Los Angeles for SIGGRAPH. the City of Angels. over beers at the bar.

Execution
During the intervening ?? months Miles Lightwood of TeamTeamUSA experimented with various techniques and applications in attempts to create a 3D printable seashell. Using the open source Sage mathematics software, he was able to create a parametric shell surface It wasn't until a colleague, Blake Senftner, suggested using 3DS Max On Miles Lightwood pitched several ideas to Bre Pettis as part of the MakerBot Industries Artist Residency program. Project Shellter was selected on 2011 and formally began on 2011-10-18 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 many 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.

Press Releases On 2011 MakerBot Industries electronically distributed a press release announcing the project.

On 2011 MakerBot Industries electronically distributed a press release announcing the success of the project as by that time two crabs - - had occupied two printed shells.

Videos Dropcam sponsored the project by donating Echo cameras and two accounts. The cameras were installed in both crabitats and daily day-in-the-life of

Blogging Sharing of the knowledge

Coverage During the course of the project, it was featured on

Conclusion On the project formally concluded

Expansion/Collaborations On 2011 Professor Philip A. Starks of Tufts University Randi Rotjan

In April 2012

Precendents Previous Standing on the Shells of Giants

Dominican Republic In April 2012, Miles Lightood went to Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic on holiday. While there