Tour de France – Just cut from sprue
It is the start of the Tour de France all over the place here in Utrecht. We are looking with a fablab eye. Do you need a bike? Just cut from the sprue and screw. Lowrider Sawyer, an art project by Jurgen Kuipers, as…
Lees meerLe Tour de France – Makers were first
This weekend the Tour de France 2015 starts in Utrecht. Did you know the concept of a Tour de France comes from making, not cycling. Makers were first. Every maker has to learn how to make things: the law of practice. If possible: learn from diffferent masters in different places. In France there is a…
Lees meerMakerspaces in Libraries – new book
Mid August the book ‘Makerspaces in Libraries’ will appear. Authors are Theresa Willingham and Jeroen de Boer. Looking forward to see it, as its first chapter is ‘Budgeting and business planning for a librarymakerspace,’ Jeroen is the chairman of the Benelux FabLab Foundation and the driving force behind Frysklab. ISBN-13: 978-1442252998 More details on…
Lees meerTour de France @ miniFabLab Utrecht
‘On 03jul15 all bicycles wil be removed because of the Tour de France’ Next weekend the Tour de France starts in Utrecht and will pass just in front of the miniFabLab. As the miniFabLab sleeps two, two genuine makers/amateurs are invited to stay with us. Because the roots of the Tour de France are in…
Lees meer3d-scanrobot in FabLab Brainport
Daan de Groot en Maarten Beniers slaagden in juni 2015 voor hun eindstage van de opleiding Technicus Mechatronica bij het Summa College. In opdracht van Teclab koppelden zij een 3D-scanner aan een robotarm. Daarmee worden personen of objecten gelijkmatig ingescand en vervolgens geprint met een 3D-printer. Voorheen gebeurde dit handmatig, wat zelden 3D-prints van goede…
Lees meerMinisters Kamp en Bussemaker bij FabLab Enschede
FabLab Enschede kreeg maandag 15 juni hoog bezoek. Minister Kamp van Economische Zaken kwam langs en bekeek de mogelijkheden van het lab. Medewerkers van FabLab Enschede, Karin van Beurden en Ruben Timmers, gaven de minister een rondleiding en studenten lichtten diverse projecten toe. Zo illustreerden zij de verschillende speerpunten van FabLab Enschede: smart, high tech…
Lees meerFOCUS portable 3D printer ByFlow
Another product is coming out of a FabLab: a multimaterial portable 3Dprinter with the name FOCUS, designed by Floris Hoff from FabLab Maastricht. His company ByFlow is in the final stage of developing it.
Lees meerMAKE: magazine on Madulthood
MAKE: magazine reports on our two American girls on their Tour de Fab. ‘Biking to 10 Fab Labs in the Netherlands’ Who also interviewed Diana at her beehives on the roof at FabLab Amersfoort. Which provides a nice methaphor: like two bees they wander from lab to lab, creating unintended a lot of coherence in…
Lees meerFabBus in Aachen (Germany)
The FH Aachen has a double decker FabBus, aimed at bringing 3D printing to schools and SMC’s. They made a beautiful thing out of a 1997 Berlin bus with only 1.7 million kilometers on the counter. The bus is named ‘Wolfgang’ (von Goethe, of course). The site in in German, but the renderings are…
Lees meerWatermark by Ultimaker
Today dutch paperfactory Coldenhove had an open day today. Family-owned Coldenhove produces paper since 1661. Rembrandt might have used it. Made by hand then, nowadays huge machines produce elite quality paper. Kids could, assisted by Peter Uithoven of FabLab Amersfoort, design their own watermark with Doodle3D. The mark was printed with an Ultimaker and…
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