According the website which is probably the best way for me to explain you what it is, The Fab Academy: “is a Digital Fabrication Program directed by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course, MAS 863: How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy began as…
A new and fundamental issue of Peer production journal now looks into the Makers and Fablab movement to assess its real potential. The overall analysis it’s not without dark zones but I think it’s optimistic overall: Fabbers and makers all over the world and all the techshops, fablabs and makerspace around are a great promise of…
An interesting Report on the Fab Lab lifecycle has been released. This report gives an highlight of what was discussed earlier on in July in Barcelona during Fab10 during one of an incredible number of workshops that were held at the event: The Fab Lab Life Cycle; Report of the FAB10 Workshops; Pieter van der Hijden* & Beno…
You still have the possibility to register for this incredible experience: The European Maker Camp is a mind-blowing experience on learning by making. A race against the clock to learn and fabricate in a diverse program based on technology, processes and tools in digital fabrication while travelling across Europe in an intensive six-week journey. via…
All the videos from Fab10 Conference in Barcelona have been released! Few Staff Picks: Massimo Banzi – Making Maker Communities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVrtx4_IkdI Neil Gershenfeld – The State of Fab Labs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpoiJx5SDu8 Bruce Sterling – Smart City States https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYNaoMkY8qY Paul Eremenko – From Consumer to Creator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZptIee-SAkc Find all videos at FAB10 Barcelona.
If you’re part of a makerspace or Fablab Communty, you should absolutely join FabJam2014: A single day event that brings together fabspaces (hackerspaces, fablabs, designlabs, makerspaces) from all around the world for a short, action-packed, creative workshop, or fabsprint. The idea is to raise the collaborative mindset, that has brought about hacker spaces and fablabs,…
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Another interesting resource where to map Makers and Maker Spaces around the world. Plus: it’s fully open source. The Maker Map is an ongoing open source project which aims to create a global database of maker resources – from workspaces to incubators – which is powered by the maker community and easily searchable on any…
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