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The Fabtable of Wednesday August 22nd will he hosted by Helga Gregorowitsch at the CabFabLab in the Hague. Venue is at 15.00. Ella Hueting will report about her visit last month to Sherry Lassiter al MIT. Helga Gregorowitsch has put ‘continuity of fabtables’ on the agenda. Furthermore there is a general question to know more…

The program of FabFuse2012 , the first International Grassroots Fab Lab event to be held in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, from 8 – 11 August, is available here at www.fabfuse.org/en/program.

Beste FabLabs In het kader van de tentoonstelling “The Machine – Designing Designing a New Industrial Revolution” (www.the-machine.be) organiseren wij – FabLab Genk (onderzoeksgroep Social Spaces en MAD-faculty) – “Hack-a-Thing”: twee series van workshops omtrent het hacken van alledaagse voorwerpen. In de eerste serie workshops (op zaterdag 7 en zondag 8 juli) nodigen we (Genkse)…

FabLab ZuidLimburg announces that on June 23, the National Day of Architecture, Enrico Dini wil visit Maastricht. Dini is well known for his printing of houses from a mixture of sand and a binding material derived from sea water. His lecture starts at 19.00 at the NAIM. The immense size of his 3D-printer can be…

I found some interesting thoughts about last months Maker Faire in the Bay Area. From makers of things to makers of tools and hardware for making things Pros are understanding the R&D value of the maker movement and maker tools The distance between imagination and physical expression is getting shorter and ever-cheaper The four C

De voortgang van de LaOS, de open source driver voor lasersnijders, verloopt voorspoedig. De stuurkaart is beschikbaar, vectorsnijden werkt, graveren is in ontwikkeling. LaOS is een intiatief van Peter Brier en Jaap Vermaas. www.laoslaser.org Bij de ontwikkeling is gebruik gemaakt van desktop lasersnijders 300×200 mm van HPC uit Engeland. HPC kan nu deze machine voor…