Transcript AMTS FabLab Cape Town - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cape Town
Above: Workshop
participants monitor
the digital embroidery
machine.
Left: FabLab assistant
Tracy Semmenlink
shows a workshop
participant that it’s all
about accurate
measurements.
Above: Craft producer Phillip Mbusi puts the finishing touches on a prototype
Location:
Launch date:
Present at Fab5:
Contact:
75 Harrington Street
Cape Town, South Africa
30 May 2006
Pieter Cilliers - FabLab Facilitator
Alan Alborough - CCDI Creativity,
Design & Innovation Programme
Manager
[email protected]
Cape Craft and Design Institute
AMTS FabLab
Cape Town
engineers
Users and target areas
mechatronics
artists
product developers
fine art
electronic
Students
fashion
General Public
entrepreneurs
graphic design
architecture
industrial design
mechanical engineering
designers
woodwork
decor
fashion
jewellery
furniture
Craft
Producers
accessories
surface design
textiles
lighting
beadwork
curios
toys
wirework ceramics
inventors
school learners