[Imc-makerspace] [Fwd: [Yasmin_an] FABLAB]

[Stewart Dickson]

YASMIN: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin
 is a network of artists, scientists, engineers, theoreticians and 
institutions promoting communication and collaboration in art, science 
and technology around the Mediterranean Rim.

Roger Malina:  Son of Frank Malina, founder of LEONARDO, the Journal of 
the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leostory.html  The journal Leonardo was 
founded in 1968 in Paris by kinetic artist and astronautical pioneer 
Frank Malina.   Roger Malina is currently General Editor of LEONARDO.   
After the death of Frank Malina in 1981, and under the leadership of his 
son, Roger F. Malina, Leonardo moved to San Francisco, California, as 
the flagship journal of the newly founded nonprofit organization 
Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology 
(Leonardo/ISAST).

Roger Malina is acting Director of the Observatoire Astronomique de 
Marseille Provence and Executive Editor of the Leonardo Publications at 
MIT Press and member of the steering committee of IMERA the 
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[Yasmin_an] FABLAB
Date: 	Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:46:03 +0200
From: 	roger malina <rmalina at alum.mit.edu>
Reply-To: 	YASMIN ANNOUNCEMENTS <yasmin_announcements at estia.media.uoa.gr>
To: 	yasmin_announcements <yasmin_announcements at estia.media.uoa.gr>



yasminers

are any of you involved in the FABLAB network ?

http://amsterdam.fablab.nl/content/fablab-network-worldwide

What is a Fablab?
Fab Lab is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory. It is a group
of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools.
Currently the labs include a laser cutter that makes 2D and 3D
structures, a sign cutter that plots in copper to make antennas and
flex circuits, a high-resolution milling machine that makes circuit
boards and precision parts, and a suite of electronic components and
programming tools for low-cost, high-speed microcontrollers.
A falab is a rapid prototyping platform, and as such is meant to
encourage local entrepreneurs to take their own ideas from the drawing
board to prototypes to starting local micro businesses, Fab Lab also
teaches users critical skills in computing, electronics, programming,
and CAD/CAM fabrication techniques--a set of internationally
recognized skills. It is additionally a platform from which a
community's technical challenges can be shared with an international
roster of engineers, who can help problem solve and design solutions
for the community. In return for the involvement of trained engineers
with the community, engineers have an opportunity to work on real life
design problems faced by large, under-served communities at the lower
end of the consumer market.
A Fablab can give its users around the world the ability to locally
conceptualize, design, develop, fabricate and test almost
anything---for example a Falab puts communication technologies within
reach of almost anyone, anywhere. Currently Fablab partners are
working on creating mesh wireless, ad hoc networks in the Lyngen Alps
of Norway to allow shepherds to keep track of their flocks from afar,
and to allow fishermen to keep track of their boats at sea. At the
Ghana Fablab, situated at the Takoradi Technical Institute, students
are working on low-cost designs for mobile refrigeration and TV
antennas. In Pabal, India Fablab users are making replacement gears
for out-of-date copying machines, reliable tools for testing milk
content and for diagnostics on human blood. At the Costa Rica Fablab
young people are learning basic electronics and fabrication - by
making functional objects with an array of sensors and actuators. In
Boston Fablab users make jewelry, toys and crafts using recycled
materials from the community.
All the labs have the same equipment and capabilities so it is
possible to share digital designs and fabricated solutions between
labs, Forming a network of intellectual property and idea exchange.
_______________________________________________
Yasmin_announcements mailing list
Yasmin_announcements at estia.media.uoa.gr
http://estia.media.uoa.gr/mailman/listinfo/yasmin_announcements

Yasmin URL: http://www.media.uoa.gr/yasmin

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE: click on the link to the list you wish to subscribe to. In the page that will appear ("info page"), enter e-mail address, name, and password in the fields found further down the page.

HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE: on the info page, scroll all the way down and enter your e-mail address in the last field. Enter password if asked. Click on the unsubscribe button on the page that will appear ("options page").

HOW TO ENABLE / DISABLE DIGEST MODE: in the options page, find the "Set Digest Mode" option and set it to either on or off.


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.chambana.net/pipermail/imc-makerspace/attachments/20100725/445f8c81/attachment.html>