Welcome

Hi everyone, welcome to the new Tinkerine U! We hope you're here to stay as we embark on this new journey.

Through the last two years, we've worked with a lot of teachers and institutions to really home in on what educators expect from a learning platform. A recurring problem that we kept seeing was that even if a teacher or student was to receive a 3D printer today, most of them would be lost as to where to begin. As a team, we continued to look at the current state of education in the 3D printing industry. We also dug into our own experiences to really define what helped us learn and facilitate opportunities of discovery during our childhood. What we noticed was that there was a stigma in regards to failure. If people are afraid to experiment with a new technology in fear that something will break, they're unknowingly limiting their creativity and simply replicating what others have done successfully.

With the new Tinkerine U, the core idea behind the platform remains the same. We're still here to share our experience and knowledge in everything 3D printing. But this time we want to also capture and celebrate the process of creation (the ideation, the iterations, and certainly the “failures”), not just the glory of the finished work and the success stories.

With that in mind, here are a few quick pointers on using the new Tinkerine U platform:

Embrace failure

Don't be afraid of sharing the print that went wrong, or models that you messed up on. We all learn through trial and error, and each of those “failed” attempts is a valuable lesson for yourself and others.

There are no dumb questions.

Everyone starts somewhere. There isn't a day that goes by where we run out of things to discover or questions to ask. You'll surely have questions, and someone within the community will share their wisdom with you. And of course, we hope you'll do the same for others as well.

Shaping the community

As an early member of Tinkerine U, your opinion and suggestions will help shape this platform. Let us know what you love (or hate) and we'll do our best to address your concerns. Feel free to comment below or email us at contact@tinkerine.com

Plans for the near future

Our development team is here to provide a clear insight to what you, as an user can expect in terms of new features in Tinkerine U. The list below (in no specific order) will detail some upcoming changes as we continue shape the platform.

Notification System: This will allow the users to be optionally notified of certain community activities such as receiving a comment, like or favourite.
Q&A Post: Improvements will be made to the current system to allow the post creator to select the best or correct answer.
Featured Content: The featured content section aims to put the spotlight on popular, unique, refreshing, or otherwise interesting posts or users that deserve some recognition.
Searching: This will allow users to search for content on the platform using keywords and more advanced filters.

Till next update,

- Tinkerine U dev team