Fab11 Boston – Making : Impact

LunchBot is a kind of drawing machine. It can draw shape on rice with seasoning powder of food (furikake).

CircuiTricks is a start-up, by an 18 year old, which was born out of FabLab CEPT in Ahmedabad. The startup focused on creating Do It Yourself kits for school kids. It's first DIY kit allowed students to create working electronic circuits using pencils only! It was the first time graphite inside pencil was used to make circuits at a large scale. After the launch of the product at the Fab10 conference in Barcelona and its engagement in Maker Faire Bay Area, CircuiTricks partnered up with Intel ...

According to growing of 3D printing technologies, the number of 3D model data on Web is rapidly increasing. Also many 3D data repositories for 3D printing are available today and there is a few 3D model search engine. We developed the 3D model search engine, which can search the data from whole Web. In our system, the crawler gets 3D model data on Web and stores it to database. Users can search 3D model with tag information of the data; filename or keyword on the page where the data is linked...

What the maker universe/Fab Labs and the more traditional innovation sector coming from companies can achieve together? From our vision, the maker movement is full of creativity, agility, low cost processes and disruptive innovation. On the other hand, companies have the know-how on how to scale, to look for quality, to manage projects for example. Therefore, both have knowledge and practices to exchange and together they could be extremely powerful, bringing innovation to another level: fast...

Most home-based technology-aided products that are currently available on the market are designed for the needs of seniors. The design emphasis is often on the technology itself, instead of its ease of use, thus leading to poor acceptance by users. This study emphasizes seniors' interactions with people, things, and the environment on the basis of psychological theory. The things in daily life, which contain a rich 'memory of life,' should already be familiar to the senior. With these things,...

Researchers and writers studying new production-consumption practices have envisioned the potential to reduce the environmental impact of mass production through personal fabrication and 'distributed production', but these ideas remain largely concepts and visions. Fab Labs are well placed to explore these new ways of doing things: promoting better socio-environmental practices that synergize with new economic opportunities. However, ideology and vision do not dictate action plans, and critic...

After analyzing Schools of Architecture and Urbanism in Latin America between 2014 and 2015, we mapped 22 academic research labs and 9 independent initiatives. 29 of them have a 3D printer, 23 a laser cutter, 21 a CNC router, 14 different machinery and 11 outsource manufacturing services. 27 of said labs used their resources for the production of architectural models, aiming to visualize, simulate and analyze. Many of those were small objects, and artistic and museum models. They prefer archi...

Locomotion is the capacity of the alive beings belonging to the animal kingdom that allows them voluntarily to move from one place to another. It is one of the distinguishing features of the animals in contrast to plants, this concept is extendable to machines with capacity of displacement. The reconfigurable modular robots approach is emerging in the field of adaptive systems, this kind of robots are made up of several interconnected modules that allows them to change their structure and loc...

The wood industry in Perú is made for many years by a traditional industry. It is characterized by low technological advancement in the design and manufacturing process, the low diffusion of modern management and standardization in their results. Moreover spaces in homes are becoming smaller and families need to optimize adaptable equipment to have a better quality of life. With the use of new tools of the Digital Fabrication, CNC machines, parametric design softwares, solve a strong demand i...

By educating individuals, stimulating local economies, and increasing global collaboration, the Fab Lab phenomenon is going to make the world a more livable place, fostering both economic and environmental sustainability. In January 2015, Madison Worthy and Miriam Engle quit their jobs in Colorado to relocate to Europe to explore the Fab Lab movement. They spent three months conducting research in Italy, Austria, Germany, and Scandinavia, and in April procured refurbished bicycles to embark o...

This paper proposes an initial framework for collaborative learning based on 12 hours of interviews with 2 instructors and 6 students of Fab Lab Wellington from Fab Academy 2015. The interview data has been hand coded for thematic saturation. The research aims to design a framework for collaborative learning culture based on Fab Academy 2015, to help Fab Labs develop new programs that can deepen community engagement within the lab, and to show how other education institutions, social organiza...

Most Japanese schools emphasize mathematics and science as regular subjects. However, a few high schools emphasize technology and engineering. In an elementary and junior high schools, the subject to learn technology is in only a technical course of the junior high school. Students in the general course of high schools don't study technology and engineering. Therefore, we do not hear the word "STEM education" very often in Japan. Super Science High Schools (SSHs) are a designation awarded by ...

The evolution of the drawing tools and computer-aided design (CADD), used by engineers, architects and designers have incorporated 2D, 3D, animation, simulation, manufacturing, artificial intelligence, etc. In commercially known software (CADD), the designer enters numeric data to geometrize the design; this technical information is standardized, which is a problem if you want to customize a piece of furniture (chair, bench, etc.) for children and permanent or temporary disabled people, whose...

A study of the antecedents to an individual's intention to return to make is proposed. Fab Labs, Makerspaces and Hackerspaces are part of a decentralized global Do-It-Yourself movement providing unique resources to tinkerers, hobbyists, inventors and artists to make almost anything. Individuals who use these facilities are often called "makers". This research seeks to understand why people intend to return to making by proposing a "maker" behavioral model blended from the theory of planned be...

FabLabs are makerspaces, where you can transform your sketch into a real product with easy-to-use machines such as 3D printers, laser cutters, or desktop CNC mills. However, FabLabs, like most production environments, have a problem: the digital manufacturing machines provide only a one-way-interaction: human to computer to machine – from bits to atoms. A 3D printer, for example, produces objects unaware of its environment. But, what if we could change the machine so it could react to outside...

At FabLab Enschede, the Netherlands, we meet different users everyday. These users - creative people and artists, volunteers, employees of SME's and big firms and, since we are located within Saxion University of Applied Sciences, lots of students- share ideas and make use of our equipment. Regularly new technical possibilities or materials are discussed and experimented with, just for fun or out of curiosity. Researchers of the Saxion Research group Design & Technology also frequently use Fa...

Involve artisan entrepreneurs who work on bamboo furniture, to integrate digital fabrication into their craft, to create better techniques and innovate their products. This paper is about the experience of adapting and innovating the traditional use of this ancestral material, throughout the use of the tools provided in the Fab Lab, to improve the bamboo industry in Perú, hoping that this could apply to other countries that use this material, such as Colombia, Ecuador, China, Japan, Korea, et...