The Coronavirus emergency is a real war on an invisible enemy and it is being fought on several battlefronts, first of all in the “trenches”, the hospital wards. The scarcity of DIPs (personal protective equipment), protection systems and valves for automatic respirators only cause doctors difficulties. The state intervened with huge measures but the citizens…
Amazing product and 500% funded in only two days, here is Wazer, the first desktop waterjet cutter, that will be also open sourced (the hardware part at least): WAZER is the first waterjet cutter that can fit in every workshop. It cuts through any material and is compact and contained, making it, clean, safe and…
When looking for a 3D printer, here are three things you might want to bear in mind: Build volume: How big a print is the 3D printer capable of doing? Materials: What filament material can the 3D printer use? The most commonly used material is PLA (polylactic acid), which is an odorless eco-friendly plastic made…
15 students from the Rome-based Massimiliano Massimo Institute have teamed up with 20 volunteers and 69 additional students from the local “Making 3D Printers” class to launch a crowdfunding campaign to provide 3D printing technology to two hospitals in Africa. Together, the 15 students and their collaborators have launched the Crowd4Africa campaign on the Italian…
Schuyler St. Leger is one of the superheroes of the maker movement. He’s a speaker, young maker, and was featured in Make magazine. His famous presentation, Why I love my 3-D Printer has received over 300,000 views on YouTube. Schuyler is keynoting at SCaLE 14x, where he’ll talk about open source radio and how it’s…
International Fab Lab Network members from more than 450 labs in 55 countries gathered last August 2015 in the birthplace of the Fab Lab concept. We come together this year to explore how the ability to “Make (almost) Anything” is impacting individuals, communities, businesses and collaborative research and projects from Detroit to Togo, Barcelona to…
Maker’s movement is gaining members and popularity every day running, impacting nowadays on the way we make, build, industrialize goods. CustomMade prepared an interesting infographics showing where we are now: The maker movement is made up of some 135 million adults in the U.S., however, it’s more than just a U.S. movement. Maker faires that…
Introduction I just wanted so badly to do this interview: when meeting the guys on the stage of Fab10, where they were prized as winners for their amazing approach at building 3d Printers – out of electronic waste, I just felt that these group of hackers was really doing something more important, something that deserved…
On Monday the 7th of July, from the stage of Fab10 Neil Gershenfeld announced the location of the next two Fab Conference editions: Fab11 will be in Boston on 3 to 7 August 2015 plus the weekend Fab12 will be in in China, the City is still under definition Exciting News!
Building a Fab Lab can be funny, and can be frustrating too, depending on how much you know about building a community, a place to work well (to partly live, to be honest), and building a team of people that are not only prepared about open hardware, but really want to help you with the…
FabDrupal is a full set of customizations for Drupal that will help all Fablab managers and teams to run the business! A repository for the development environment of the FabDrupal distribution, a Drupal distribution for FabLabs This project is from the well know italian designer Massimo Menichinelli that recently also wrote an exciting post on…
For those that are lucky to be there! 9th annual international fab lab forum: Fab9JAPAN.
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