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Activities Done:

Sep,16, 09

Distance lecture via Polycom about digital fabrication and future project and on self-reproducing machines.

-by Prof. Neil Gershenfield

Sep,17, 09

Global discussions from different states of US, Kenya, India including Barcelona.

Activities Done on:

September; 21

Introducing ourselves and presenting our works to the class which was a very interesting program. There were people from different parts of the world and background.

September; 22

Introduction on how to use moodle, html, and blogging our works. -by Tomas Diez

Activities Done on:

Setember; 23

Presentation of 'Self-reproducing machines' proposed by each student.

September; 24

Visits on FabLab Barcelona which have two rooms- one for 1:1 scale model or sample product and the other for model making. It is amazing how people manipulate technology up to the climax point.

The machines in room I: *This machine is a result of advanced technology of cutting with 3-Dimensions; two Fablab members from Ethiopia and Peru looking at a sheet stainless steel shaped by the machine.

* It is a machine used to cut with laser rays. It is the most expensive machine of all Fab Lab's. The picture besides the machine is operation key and a model exersice made by it.

The machines in room II: 3-D Printer A Model Vacuum cleaner *This 3-D printer makes 3-d models while the vacuum brushes and cleans them.

Oven Vinyl cutter *By the use of these machines one can make a fine cutting and fire a model.

CNC Milling machine and 3-D scanner

Laser Cutter Models Made by this laser cutter