Articles Archive for October 2008
Fab Lab Central »
On Friday 2nd of June all the pieces made by the participants will be on exhibition for a open public event at Fab Lab Bcn located at IaaC. From a 4×8 piece of plywood are coming up different models based on design, functionality and interaction.
Amy Sun from MIT has been running the workshop since Monday 2nd of July.
Fab Lab Masters »
Fab Lab Central, Videos »
Mobile Fab Lab is a project from the MIT´s Center for Bits and Atoms and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. A Mobile Fab Lab has complete fabrication equipment to make almost anything. This video shows the first trip on the mobile drive in summer of 2007, the team was composed by Amy Sun (MIT CBA), Kenny Cheung (MIT CBA) and Tomas Diez (IaaC/reccomunidad). This fab lab is now settled in the South Bronx in New York. More info at: Mobile Fab Lab Blog
Fab Lab Kids »
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld, Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, and founder of Fab Lab Network, joined IaaC facilities for the launching of Fab Lab Bcn.
Fab lab is an ambitious interdisciplinary initiative that is looking beyond the end of the Digital Revolution to ask how a functional description of a system can be embodied in, and abstracted from, a physical form.
Fab Lab” program brings prototyping capabilities to under-served communities that have been beyond the reach of conventional technology development and deployment. By making accessible engineering in space (down to …
Fab Academy, Headline »
IaaC hosted the launching meeting of the Fab Academy program together with the MIT CBA and different Fab Labs of the world. Fab Academy is a distributed educational program based on the digital and personal fabrication.
The Fab Academy will provide instruction and supervise investigation of mechanisms, applications, and implications of digital fabrication. Field “fab labs” are providing early access to these capabilities, through prototype tools for personal fabrication.
Instead of traveling to a distant campus, or connecting remote sites for distance learning from a central hub, a global network of local …
Maquinas »
Maquina de prototipado rapido para la construccion de modelos tridimensionales, directamente desde el modelado a la fabricacion, soporta archivos .stl
Fab Lab Pro »
Equipamiento de fabricacion digital para profesionales. Fab Lab Pro es un programa del Fab Lab Barcelona destinado a la produccion de maquetas, protitpos y modelos relacionados a la arquitectura y el diseño. Con la maquinaria del Fab Lab Barcelona es posible desarrollar proyectos a diferentes escalas, usando tecnologias de fabricación avanzada, ademas de la capacidad de embeber tecnologias interactivas en objetos y proyectos.
