FABLAB AMSTERDAM Frank Kresin [email_address]

WAAG SOCIETY Mission Create and Deploy Technology for Social Innovation By Research into Technology, Behaviour and Culture Developing Pilots and Prototypes Staging Public Interventions and Presentations Facilitate Incubation and Spin-off Products

Mission

Create and Deploy Technology

for Social Innovation

By

Research into Technology, Behaviour and Culture

Developing Pilots and Prototypes

Staging Public Interventions and Presentations

Facilitate Incubation and Spin-off Products

CREATIVE RESEARCH Collaborations between Users Designers Programmers Artists & Scientists Publish or Perish => Demo or Die

Collaborations between

Users

Designers

Programmers

Artists & Scientists

Publish or Perish => Demo or Die

FAB LAB Mission Fab labs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication. Access You can use the Fab lab to make almost anything (that doesn't hurt anyone); you must learn to do it yourself, and you must share use of the lab with other uses and users. Education Training in the fab lab is based on doing projects and learning from peers; you're expected to contribute to documentation and instruction.

Mission Fab labs are a global network of local labs, enabling invention by providing access for individuals to tools for digital fabrication.

Access You can use the Fab lab to make almost anything (that doesn't hurt anyone); you must learn to do it yourself, and you must share use of the lab with other uses and users.

Education Training in the fab lab is based on doing projects and learning from peers; you're expected to contribute to documentation and instruction.

Neil Gershenfield about Fab Lab http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/neil_gershenfeld_on_fab_labs.html

OPEN CONTENT OPEN SOFTWARE OPEN HARDWARE

Phidget Interface kit Light sensor Rotation sensor Slider RFID tagged objects RFID reader

Exploring Interaction with Sensors

Rapid Prototyping Example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bfz9L05maE

Personal Power Plant http://www.instructables.com/id/personal-powerPlant/

SelfCity Wearable http://fablab.waag.org/selfcity

MooiMuis http://fablab.waag.org/mooimuis/

Prosthetics Workshop http://amsterdam.fablab.nl/node/1943

ChocoPI http://amsterdam.fablab.nl/node/1719/ & http://chocopi.blogspot.com/

PRINCIPLES The best producer is the actual user He/she can learn to build almost anything Share blueprints & stand on the shoulders of others A network of Fablabs over the world (more than 60) Connected by video links

The best producer is the actual user

He/she can learn to build almost anything

Share blueprints & stand on the shoulders of others

A network of Fablabs over the world (more than 60)

Connected by video links

CineGrid Workshop Frank Kresin http://fablab.waag.org/