Author Archives: Paulien

Overshoot Party

The last day of the FAB6 conference happens to be the day before this years’ Earth Overshoot Day. This day marks an unfortunate milestone: the day of the year when humanity has used up all the resources our planet produces … Continue reading

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Outreach

OUTREACH / 17 August, 10:30, Groningen / This multi-workshop handles: Fab Lab outreach: labs sponsoring labs Interesting phenomenon appearing in the network, that of labs sponsoring labs in foreign locations, do we formalize the process and find a way support … Continue reading

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UAV’s, remote sensing

RESEARCH / 17 August, 10:30, Utrecht / The research-track on remotely-operated flying and floating platforms for regional remote sensing and communications.

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Wide-area comm & infra

RESEARCH / 18 August, 13:30, Utrecht / The research track on regional scaling of networks, clients, servers, and services.

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Local energy

RESEARCH / 18 August, 10:30, Utrecht / Local energy conversion and storage: devices for locally producing and storing renewable energy.

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Digital fabrication

RESEARCH / 17 August, 13:30, Utrecht / Machines, materials, and methods for digital fabrication are discussed in this research track.

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Analytical instrumentation

/ 16 August, 13:30, Amsterdam / Spectroscopies that can be produced and used in the field for applications in healthcare, agriculture, and the environment, including UV-VIS, FTIR, NMR, NQR, ESR, and dielectric relaxation.

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What is a Fab Lab?

OPERATIONS / 16 August, 13:30, Amsterdam/ What defines a Fab Lab? Is it a brand? Do we protect the brand? How? Are there levels of membership: such as junior, senior? So many new labs are coming up and they want … Continue reading

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(Un)limited Design Contest

PROJECTS / 18 August, 13:30, Amsterdam & The Hague / The second edition of the (Un)Limited Design Contest has started! This year’s kick-off was in Berlin, during the DMY International Design Festival 2010. Again, everyone can participate with a new … Continue reading

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Education

OPERATIONS / 18 August, 10:30, The Hague / Operational track on Education: Fabacademy The road from prototype to operational is presented by Tomas Diez (Barcelona). Fabschool Format settings for technical education for K-12 age students. Hosted by the Labs from … Continue reading

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Business

BUSINESS / 17 August, 13:30, Groningen / This multi-workshop focusses on: Ideas for business models: best practices We will discuss ways of developing business models, look at a “business model canvas” as a template to develop business models. The University … Continue reading

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Building a community

OPERATIONS / 16 August, 13:30, Amsterdam / This multi-workshop contains the following subjects: Creative pool Proposal for an exchange platform for teachers/instructors who work with/in FabLabs and who would want to share their expertise with other labs. Hosted by Karsten … Continue reading

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Prosthetics

PROJECTS / 18 August, 10:30, Groningen / Creating personalized prosthetics in a fab la, project explores scanning, materials, quick abrication with interest from communities in Haiti, Groningen, Indonesia and India. Hosted by Nadya Peek, Alex Schaub and Kenny Cheung

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Micropower

PROJECTS / 18 August, 13:30, Utrecht / Windmills and turbines and making them, a grassroots approach to global infrastructure challenges by our MIT students and Fab Lab gurus.

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Rapid prototyping with green(er) composites

PROJECTS / 17 August, 13:30, Utrecht / Large scale rapid prototyping with green(er) composites looks at how using digital fabrication tools for making moulds and jigs for composite lay-up allows the fabrication of strong and lightweight parts without harm to … Continue reading

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Fab Lab sharing system

PROJECTS / 18 August, 10:30, Amsterdam / Creating an online system for sharing files, project collaborarion, business platforms and more- outcomes will be a research proposal and consolidation of current efforts. Hosted by Anu Määttä (Protospace Utrecht), ILL/NSCC and Fab … Continue reading

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Fab Lab 2.0 hardware and software

PROJECTS / 17 August, 10:30, Utrecht / Fab Lab 2.0: hardware and software. Machines that make machines…

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Embedded code dev.tools

PROJECTS / 18 August, 10:30, Utrecht / Current state of research and projects, some active development, establish near term goals.

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Refab

TUTORIAL / 17 August, 10:30, Amersfoort / Fablabs are a perfect setting for the development and making use of new sustainable solutions and cradle-to-cradle technology. This session will focus on recycling of local waste materials. Topics we aim to cover: … Continue reading

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Open up, make sharing work

TUTORIAL / 18 August, 10:30, Amersfoort / The Fab Lab concept holds a promise for the development of cheap and publicly available technology and design once open source principles are put to work. However, most machines depend on commercial software, … Continue reading

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Mircocontroller circuits

TUTORIAL / 18 August, 13:30, Amsterdam / Process of making Fab Lab Hello World circuits. Hands-on tutorial covering circuit design tools, milling board on Modela, stuffing and programming your board.

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Fab Lab management

TUTORIAL / 17 August, 10:30, Groningen / For organizations in process of building their fab labs, here are best practices from established labs in the network (tutorial track). Our hosts: James Janisse, Zitek, Simenson, Betty Jo Barrett

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Computer controlled cutting

TUTORIAL / 18 August, 10:30, Amsterdam / Process tutorial covering file creation to file conversion to fabrication on laser cutter, vinyl cutter and ShopBot.

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Casting and molding

TUTORIAL / 18 August, 10:30, The Hague / How to make molds and cast using cad.py, modela, in wax, rubber, and high resolution casting materials.

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CAD CAM scanning

TUTORIAL / 17 August, 13:30, Groningen / using cad.py as process software/tools.

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Building rapid prototype machines

TUTORIAL / 18 August, 10:30, Utrecht / Hands on constructions of a 3D printer and other prototype machines. Hosted by Protospace Utrecht

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Communications & computing

PROJECTS / 16 August, 13:30, Amsterdam / Community, communications and computing. FabFi, thinner clients, state of the art, determine needs, next steps and next test sites. Hosted by Amy Sun, Keith Berkoben, Kamau, Haakon Karlsen

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Pat Colgan

Pat Colgan, Chief Executive, Special EU Programmes Body Pat Colgan, joined the Special EU Programmes Body in September 2004 from the Austrian Institute for Spatial Planning and Regional Development where he was Head of the INTERACT Secretariat – an EU … Continue reading

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Jan Morrison

Executive Director, TIES (Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM) Executive Director, Envision Excellence in STEM Education (501(c)3) As the Executive Director of TIES and Envision Excellence in STEM and a recognized leader in STEM education, Jan provides vital support to … Continue reading

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Tom Ran

I am a PhD student of Prof. Ehud Shapiro at the Departments of Computer Science and Mathematics and Biological Chemistry in the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot , Israel 76100. I am part of the Laboratory for Biomolecular Computers: Laboratory’s … Continue reading

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Adrian Bowyer

In the early 1970s Adrian Bowyer read for a first degree in mechanical engineering at Imperial College, London, and then researched a PhD in tribology there.  In 1977 he moved to Bath University’s Maths Department to do research in stochastic … Continue reading

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Vicente Guallart

Vicente Guallart is director of Guallart Architect and The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. He have been pioneer in the interaction of architecture and new technologies. His work have been featured at NY MOMA and Venize Binealle among others. … Continue reading

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Bre Pettis

Bre Pettis makes things that make things. Passionate about invention, innovation, and all things DIY, Pettis builds infrastructure for creativity. He is a founder of Makerbot, a company that produces robots that make things, and a founder of NYCResistor, a … Continue reading

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Ron Weiss

My research focuses on programming new cellular behaviors by designing and embedding synthetic gene networks that perform desired functions in single cells and multi-cellular environments.  We genetically engineer a variety of cell types including bacteria, yeast, and mammalian stem cells.  … Continue reading

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Joseph Jackson

Joseph Porter Jackson III is a philosopher and social entrepreneur. A graduate of Harvard College AB (Government 2004) and the London School of Economics Msc (Philosophy of Science 2005), he has been studying Open Source and user innovation as a … Continue reading

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Adam Arkin

Director of Physical Biosciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dean A. Richard Newton Memorial Professor, Dept of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley Adam Arkin, 43, a leading authority on the evolutionary design principles of cellular networks and populations and … Continue reading

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Matthias Kohler

Matthias Kohler and Fabio Gramazio are joint partners in the architects’ office Gramazio & Kohler in Zurich. Their recent works include the sWISH* Pavilion at Expo.02 (for IBM and Swiss Re), the new Christmas illuminations in the Zurich Bahnhofstrasse as … Continue reading

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Kamau Gachigi

Dr. Kamau Gachigi is the Chairman and Coordinator of the University of Nairobi Science and Technology Park. He is also a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nairobi, Kenya (since 1999), … Continue reading

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Timothy P. Lynch

Tim Lynch retired for the United States Marine Corps after 22 years of active service. He joined the United States Navy in 1979, spending six years as a hospital corpsman. Tim completed the requirements for a B.S. in business administration … Continue reading

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Karsten Joost

End of the eighties I learned my first profession (toolmaker) in a Mercedes-Benz factory. In the early nineties, I changed into a creative environment. I began working as a photojournalist for a newspaper (taz). Parallel I studied art. First with … Continue reading

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Open Design

OPERATIONS / 18 August, 10:30, Amsterdam / The way everything around us is designed, made and distributed will change. This process has both social and technological origins. On the one hand, you have the rapidly growing do-it-yourself (DIY) culture that … Continue reading

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Evening lounge

The Evening Lounge offers an exhibition of products and work of all the Fab Labs. A special section of the exhibition shows the work of the Fab Academy students. During the tradeshow vendors present themselves.

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Graduation Fabacademy

Official graduation of all the students of this year’s Fab Academy. The students will receive their diploma. The graduation is only open for participants of the Symposium (Academic day). The projects of the students will be exhibited in the Evening … Continue reading

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Fab Foo

Open spots in the programme: propose a subject you want to work on! Leave your comments on our schedule-page

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