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FabLab Netherlands
• • • Fablab.nl foundation started in 2006 – Hanne van Essen & Frank Oxener • Goal: to introduce FabLab concept and (help) setup FabLabs 2007 – Dirk van Vreeswijk joined Current dutch Fab Foundation: – Harm Verbeek, Ton Zijlstra, Klaas Hernamdt
FabLab.nl
Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
2007 – First Lab
Lass’s Law in the Lowlands?
• • • • • • ⨫ “Test run” was opened in september 2007 Neil Gershenfeld: keynote on Picnic Lot of press coverage & initiatives to open labs around the country 2007: Amsterdam opened 2008: Utrecht & The Hague opened 2009: Groningen, (Dordrecht & Amsterdam) 2010: Eindhoven, Enschede, Rotterdam &?
FabLab.nl
Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
Role of foundation
• • Knowledge transfer: – Website – Info & press – Network Community support – FabTables – Shared Projects – Finding funding & Consulting
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Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
Shared Projects
• • • FabYearbook: – Share the FabMoments – Open for all labs Get worldwide fab community on Yammer: – Everyone a fabfolk e-mail address?
Documentation and Knowledge Management System: – distributed shared documentation system
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Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
Open Design Competition
• • • • • • Open design Workshops in all dutch FabLabs ‘Consumer products’ In 3 categories: Form Food Fashion Best products will be sold Designs are documented and shared!
FabLab.nl
Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
FabLab.nl
Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
Next year
• More worldwide shared projects • Sharing knowledge & communications [email protected]
or www.fablab.nl
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Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
CineGrid Workshop Frank Kresin
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Fab5 Conference – India, Pune – August 2009
“Creative technology for social innovation” • Indepedent research institute – located in Amsterdam, Netherlands • Programmes: – Education; Care; Art; Sustainability; Public Domain – Locative media, Serious games, Narrative, Bio-Art, high bandwith video (4k cinegrid) • Established in 1994; 50 people; • Including incubator (Mediaguild) and spin off businesses http://waag.org
http://amsterdam.fablab.nl
Alex Schaub
Activities:
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Creative Research -> product development
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Workshops rapid prototyping, physical computing, sense kitchen
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Open lab 2 days/week
open days for free condition: - publishing documentation and instructions on the fablab website (fab moment) Aim: - Internationally networked knowledge sharing
Projects
Pop up
Interactive installation for young children
Coming up?
Fablab Yogyakarta Indonesia
Case study: Prosthetics
The 50$ leg Develop tools for the production of cheap high quality prosthetics
Low cost Alignment laser 200$ vs 5600$
Low cost 3d Limb scanner
QuickTim e ﾪ and a decom pr essor ar e needed t o see t his pict ur e.
Thank you
http://amsterdam.fablab.nl