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First Eindhoven FabLab Workshop

Studio:ludens and Little Mountain -two companies from the creative sector of Eindhoven- are strong believers of the power of the FabLab concept. They decided to test hands-on what the benefits of such a place would be for the creative business of Eindhoven and so the first FabLab workshop in Eindhoven was born.

On the 27th of March, they put together a one-day FabLab at their own office. Sponsored by Trotec, Kubra an EZtronics they created a complete workshop with a lasercutter, hand tools, a large variety of raw materials and a bunch of of the newest electronic kits. Mixed teams of design professionals and design students (both Design Academy & Industrial Design) were challenged to create a new USB concept and deliver a working prototype at the end of the day.

The results were highly impressive: combining their variety of skills in an act of strong teamwork, the participants turned their ideas into reality. Through an iterative process the initial concepts were refined step by step. In the end, three visually and technically attractive working prototypes of the designs were presented. Studio:ludens and Little Mountain believe that this workshop demonstrated some of the potential benefits for the creative community of Eindhoven:

• Increase personal interaction between design students from different areas.
• Create fruitful links between the professional creative industry and creative students.
• Unleash the true potential of creatives by providing them easy access to Rapid-Manfacturing technologies.

Feel free to read the in-depth review (with many pictures!) of the whole day at Blog Ludens.