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Shenzen Maker Week
FAB12 will be held in Shenzhen, China next year. But this year is the Shenzhen Maker Week and Interactive Maker Exhibit from 18 – 22 June, for which we received a call for makers invitation. Mitch Altman, well known from OHM, who has been travelling China over the past years organizing Hacker Trips, just…
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FryskLab, Europe’s first mobile library FabLab from the Netherlands, is going on an European road trip in February 5-20. The destination is Florence (Italy), where FryskLab will participate in the conference The Art of Invention, organized by OCLC. FryskLab, a former book mobile turned mobile library lab, is a project of Bibliotheekservice Fryslân (BSF). Frysklab…
Lees meerFab 10 Symposium Presentations on YouTube
Fab 10 has made all presentations of the Symposium (Monday 7 July 2014) available on YouTube: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAL9ti-C7YlflHcyk1bOKB_vBgTlcFCjf[/youtube] see them all here
Lees meerFabLab Breda neemt deel aan FAB10 in Barcelona
Van 2-9 juli vindt in Barcelona de Fab10 plaats. Dit is een jaarlijks wereldwijd evenement waar FabLabs elkaar ontmoeten, elkaar bijpraten over de laatste ontwikkelingen, projecten uitvoeren en vooral ook heel veel lol hebben! FabLab Breda zal de hele week aanwezig zijn en dagelijks een update geven via de site en hun Facebookpagina. Hou beiden dus…
Lees meerAmerican Library Association benadrukt belang makerspaces in bibliotheken
De American Library Association (ALA) heeft een persbericht gepubliceerd waarin zij haar steun voor het samengaan van bibliotheken met makerspaces uitspreekt. ALA-voorzitter Barbara Stripling verwoordt de reden daarvoor als volgt: “It’s enabling libraries to transform their relationship with communities and to empower community members of all ages to be creators of information, not just consumers.”…
Lees meerOn Small Fab Labs
On Small Fablabs was the presentation of Bart Bakker at the Fablab1.5 Conference in Moscow at MISiS, the Nat Univ for Science and Technology. De Facebook community on the Small Fablab Suite is here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/smallfablab/ Synopsys: 1. The number of people the want to be a maker/fabber will grow, fueled by the current…
Lees meerThe Failings of FabLabs
At the end of the European FabLab Conference in Aachen, professor Jan Borchers (together with René Bohne our kind hosts at the Media Computing Group of RWTH) at the final discussion round brought up an unexpected question: Are FabLabs dead? With the rapid proliferation of all kinds of maker spaces in all kinds of forms, are…
Lees meerFab10 In Barcelona July 2014
With the Fab9 Conference in Japan only just over, Fab10 is already being organized. After Fab6, hosted in 2010 by the Dutch FabLab network with events in all Dutch FabLabs, the international FabLab conference is now returning to Europe with Fab10! Previous editions took place in Peru (Fab7, 2011), New Zealand (Fab8, 2012) and Japan…
Lees meerRElab Liège is open !
Yesterday the RElab in Liège opened in the hearth of the historic center. They have a remarkable facade, old fashioned maker style. Inside is modern gear. The lab is full-blown, but the space is tight: they even had to cut a hole in the wall for the protruding tube of the laser cutter. We handed…
Lees meerEerste EU Maker Faire, Rome: 3-6 oct – nu aanmelden
De eerste Maker Faire European Edition vindt plaats 3 t/m 6 october 2013 in Rome. De “call for makers” is nu open en sluit op 2 juni. Indienen kan via de website van Maker Faire European Edition: http://www.makerfairerome.eu/be-a-maker/call-for-makers/ UPDATE: de aanmeldingstermijn is verlengd tot 30 juni 2013.
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