3D printing
At the end of August, Beertje started talking about 3D printing. He wanted to get a 3D print and enthousiastically talked about lots of youtube movies he'd seen about it and about children running an online shop. He just went on and on and we want to stimulate his interest in technology. Yet we're not going to sponsor and invest in hypes and short-term interests. So I ordered his older brother to take him at the end of the summer vacation to SHIFT. That's an organisation that organises technology sessions, workshops in a low threshold-walk-in style in the city center of Leuven for teenagers. Kabouter had already spent some time at SHIFT in the previous years and had explored VR and 3D printing or just gaming with some of his friends. While Beertje was officially too young to go to SHIFT, we sort of pushed both boys to go and ensure that Beertje got an opportunity to test a printer and get a realistic image of what it is about. He returned even more enthousi...
