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FabYearBook 2010

The FabYearBook 2010 has been released. Download and print it yourself. The Instructable on how to put the first ever FabYearBook together can be found here.

Start FabLab Aachen, the first in the BRD

On December 7th, 2009, at 6pm we will open the doors to the fab lab for the first time. You are invited to have a look at our tools and talk with us about the idea of personal fabrication and rapid prototyping. We are curious about the ideas that you want to materialize in the fab lab. More

Coordinates:

Fab lab
RWTH Aachen University
Lehrstuhl Informatik 10
Ahornstraße 55
Main Building, Room 2014
52074 Aachen, Germany

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.

Nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst FabLab Nederland

Om het nieuwe jaar goed te beginnen organiseren Stichting FabLab.nl en Protospace FabLab Utrecht een nieuwjaarsbijeenkomst op woensdag 7 januari vanaf 15 uur bij Protospace in Utrecht.

Iedereen die FabLab een warm hart toedraagt, betrokken is bij een FabLab of een FabLab aan het opzetten is, is van harte welkom. Om verhalen te delen, elkaar te ontmoeten en te klinken op het nieuwe jaar.

Aanmelden va Dirk van Vreeswijk. Voor bereikbaarheid zie Protospace.

FabManagers Meeting #5

Woensdag 19 november 2008 vindt van 15.00-17.00 uur de 5e FabManagers Meeting plaats. Dit keer alleen voor initiatieven die een fablab runnen of als zodanig op het web actief zijn.

• Locatie: Pakhuis de Zwijger, FabLab Amsterdam 3e verdieping. 
• Host: Waag Society.
• Info: Dirk van Vreeswijk
• Mob: 06 22540390

Personal Fabrication for Dummies

Personal Fabrication has the potential to change the way things are made and sold. Mass customization requires a front end solution that allows the customer to configure their product, but also requires specialized machinery to execute those designs. Many people think 3D printers are the way this will happen, but there are half a dozen other amazing technologies that allow people to make anything they can imagine. 

Source: Replicator

Tutorials on how to set up a Fablab

A series documenting the setting up and usage of a MIT styled FabLab in the Netherlands. Will feature step by step tutorials on how to use the different equipment in the lab.

The beckoning promise of personal fabrication

MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab, a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It’s a simple idea with powerful results. As Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, Neil Gershenfeld explores the boundaries between the analog and digital worlds. His famous Fab Labs (fabrication laboratories) use digital technology to build physical objects. More