This July, the FABberz Learn + Design + Make workshop division is collaborating with Google Ideas at FABberz lab.nyc. Google will be bringing 23 middle school students on a technology field trip to the lab. The students will learn about digital fabrication and its connection to the tech world. Teams will form to customize wooden shelving structures using laser cutting and etching. The FABberz To-Go iPhone app along with scanning and live trace techniques will be implemented in order to create laser templates that the students will cut, etch, and take home with them.
Stay tuned for photos of the workshop and student creations!
This is the last call for registration to this weekend’s tectonic tiles workshop at FABberz lab.nyc (Saturday and Sunday). The workshop will explore different tiling methods used by M.C. Escher, and introduce parametric tile creation using Rhino + Grasshopper. Tile molds will be laser cut and casted in plaster, and participants will leave the 2 day workshop with their own fabricated tiles. Included in the $175 workshop fee is a 2-hour laser cutting FABpass which will never expire!
Some Rhino experience is recommended, and for those who wish to be introduced to Rhino for the first time, we suggest attending the optional rhino introduction on Friday, April 15th, from 6:30pm – 9:30pm ($50). No experience is necessary for Grasshopper.
REGISTER HERE! or call us for registration by phone at 646-781-9448.
FABberz lab.nyc is happy to announce the launch of a new workshop series aimed at teaching digital design methods and translating them into physical, fabricated objects. The first 4 workshops scheduled for Spring 2011 will be weekend workshops (Saturday + Sunday) with optional 1 day Rhino Introduction Courses the Friday before each scheduled workshop.
FABberz lab.nyc is now up and running! Join us and celebrate the opening of our lab in nyc.
FABberz lab offers affordable laser cutting services and professional large format printing. We are open 24 hrs by appointment only. Visit our site for more information on materials and pricing : www.fabberzlab.com
Our friends at the AA are holding a workshop in Rio de Janeiro this April, and this is a last call to register as a participant! More information about the workshop and how to apply can be found here.
From the site:
AA Rio de Janeiro Design Workshop
5- 14 April 2011
Complementing the venues associated with Rio de Janeiro’s annual Carnival, 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, this workshop will explore alternative, informal and grass-roots sports and cultural programmes as a way of transforming precarious urban environments and communities and help guarantee a community legacy for these global events. The 10-day workshop will promote a design philosophy that mediates between global and local sensibilities, between formal and informal economies, and between high-tech and low-tech fabrication processes. In contrast to imported and pre-fabricated end-products, it will employ a hybrid methodology, using raw goods (matéria prima) and other found-objects (inspired by the work of artist Ernesto Neto and the Campana Brothers), yet evolving these projects with novel computational-design and fabrication techniques that emphasise the introduction of component-based logics.
The workshop itself will take place almost 40 days after the Carnival, to explore the re-use of the actual Carnival floats, costumes and other related paraphernalia, collaborating with several Escolas de Samba located in the post-industrial empty warehouses of the Porto area, the birthplace of the Carnival and Samba. The recyled Carnival material will be transformed using digital fabrication processes and new digitally fabricated joint components, to create interventions for micro-venues and urban furniture in the Porto region, to support open cultural and sports events that engage the local populations and both counter and complement the large-scale constructions of Olympic sports venues.
Open to designers from all over the world, the studio-based workshop will include extensive parametric modelling, instruction in Rhino Grasshopper and digital fabrication processes using laser cutter, CNC-milling and rapid-prototyping machines, sponsored by DS4 and SEACAM, all of which will be used to produce design proposals and physical models. The workshop will also feature seminars and lectures by both Brazilian and international architects, artists, urban planners and other specialists (working directly with the Carnival float artisans in their workshops and collaborating with the FABberz’ DIA Workshops), and will culminate with the fabrication of one-to-one scale prototypes and a final review within the port and city centre sites.
“TAC – Technically Advanced Construcion – postgraduate course in Milan 2011″
TAC Technically Advanced Construction is a new postgraduate course for graduates and professionals established by the Department of Building Environment Science and Technology (BEST), Politecnico di Milano and Co-de-iT. It will run for three months and will allow participants to achieve high levels of knowledge in the design-to-production process through the use of advanced digital tools for design and machines for the creation of physical models.
If you want to know more about it, see this link below
It was destined to happen… someone had to eventually make the leap in laser cutting that MakerBot made for 3d printing and DIYLILCNC made for CNC Milling: bring laser cutters into people’s homes by making them affordable and open source. It seems that nortd labs – a research and development studio founded in New York City – has set out to do just that with their open source laser cutting project “Lasersaur”. The project became a reality on July 8th, 2010, when it was successfully (over)funded on Kickstarter.
The project idea is described on the their Kickstarter site as simply being: “Design a laser cutter and make the building process repeatable for others”.
Their mission statement is outlined at www.lasersaur.com as being: “Within one year we hope to provide a cheap, safe, and highly-capable machine that will increase the proliferation of laser cutters and make a significant contribution to the personal fabrication movement. As part of this movement we hope to simplify the creation and sharing (building instructions thereof) of tangible objects. We hope to help make open source hardware mainstream.”
FABberz wishes nortd labs the best of luck with Lasersaur – the project will indeed be a major contribution to the world of personal and distributed fabrication!
ROBOTS THAT MAKE THINGS_And How sharing is the best way to run a bussiness and your life
This desktop DIY machine allows people to establish a new level of design communication by making 3d printing affordable and accessible to all.
The possibility of making ideas come true and transforming digital designs into physical ones, gives designers and other interested parties a great tool to start making things.
MakerBot is completly open source – all plans and software. Check out more at www.makerbot.com.
We are really happy to see that there are initiatives like this. Thanks guys for your contribution and congratulations!
Visitors to Trafalgar Square (and especially late night club-goers on their way home) saw a pretty interesting sight this weekend plopped in the middle of T-Square: robotic arms that use bright lights to spell out messages created by members of the public.
* The eight robots are an art installation, created as part of the London Design Festival, which starts on Saturday and runs for nine days throughout the capital.
Designed by Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar, the installation – called Outrace – will let members of the public control the robotic arms to spell out messages they submit via the Outrace website.
The messages are written by the robots – which have been borrowed from an Audi car factory – using lights (and in a typeface specially designed by London typographer Khashayar Naimanan).
Visitors to Trafalgar Sqare won’t see much in the way of comprehensible messages, in any case – they’ll just see a load of robots waving lights around. The messages only become apparent on videos shot from around the robot’s platform, which are then displayed on the project’s website for people to view.
Outrace will run until September 23, so you’ve still got time to submit your message – which is limited to the half-tweet length of 70 characters. *
Now if only these robots could be put to use as an architectural production line… see: Brick Laying Robotic Arm
