Fab Lab @ South End Technology Center
What do you want to make today?

 

THE POWER OF ONE

An army of one,

A seeker of peace,

The vessel of empowerment.


One smile,

One hand out-stretched,

One kind word,

One unselfish act,

One light in the gray dawn.


It takes one moment,

One frozen moment in time-

To change one day in a life.


One moment-

One hour-

One day-

One life

It is in the power of one,

I am the power of one

--Noel Wolf

The Boston Fab Lab and the South End Technology Center are located in the basement of Tent City in the Back Bay. You can come join us at 359 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02116 ((617) 253-3287). We are 1 block from the Back Bay stop on the Orange Line.

FAB LAB CLASSES, SPRING 2007
Programmable Autonomous Vehicles (William Gross and Amy Sun gurus)
Monday nights 4:30-7:30PM through May 21
Not too late to join the class! To register contact: amy at cba dot mit dot edu

Learn2Teach, Teach2Learn classes
Tuesday afternoons 3:30-5:30PM through June 28

Topics in Industrial Design (Lee Vodra guru)
Tuesday nights, 6:00 - 8:30PM, May 1 to May 19: 8 weeks.
This class will teach an iterative design process for approaching unfamiliar materials and situations. The first few classes will be devoted to learning the process and the machines, the following classes will be devoted to solving real-world problems with design. The aim of this class is to create a semi-permanent working group of active designers utilizing the FabLabs. Concurrent enrollment with either the Monday or Thursday night FabLab class is recommended as this class is focused more on design than machines. To register contact: studios at leevodra dot com

Design and Fab for Youth (Amon Millner guru)
Wednesdays 10:30AM to 1:00PM
Ages 8-14 years. To register contact: millner at media dot mit dot edu

Learn2Teach, Teach2Learn classes
Thursday afternoons 3:30-5:30PM through June 28

Open Access Fab Lab (Sherry Lassiter guru)
Thursday evenings 5:30-8:30 through June 14
All Ages. Work on your own project with help from the SETC and MIT experts.

Open Access Fab Lab on Saturdays (various gurus)
Saturday, April 28 12:30PM-3:30PM
Times will be determined week to week for the next few weeks due to the evolving training schedule for the Learn2Teach youth. Closed Memorial Day weekend ( April 28) All Ages. Work on your own project with help from the SETC and MIT experts.

We are planning a Digital Design Embroidery Workshop sometime in the next 6 weeks. It will probably be on a Wed or Thurs night 6PM- 9:30PM. If you are interested, please let me know. We can accommodate 6-8 students for this workshop. To register contact: lass at cba dot mit dot edu

 

General Note: Ed Baafi, who runs the SETC fab lab is at the Lab weekdays 10AM- 2PM. SETC is open Monday through Thursday, 2PM-8:30PM, Fridays 1PM - 4PM. Once you learn the machines and safety procedures in the fab lab and are graduated to full scale fabberwith a gold star, you can come by the fab lab anytime that SETC is open and use the lab, unsupervised. You just need to leave the lab as clean, if not cleaner than you found it. To contact ed: edwardbaafi at gmail dot com.

Announcements, News and Notes - announcements of things to come and messages for everyone

Workshops - themes people are currently working on

Calendar with Major Events - don't miss! and notes from previous happenings

Processes - instructions on how to use the machines for various projects

Projects

People - personal pages... add your own!

Photos - totally unsorted but here for you to see what we're up to!

To Do List

Wanted! - be on the lookout for these things

New SETC Blog - Blogging for all of SETC. Write up your queries, problems, notes and share your project progress.

Operations and References - SETC and fab lab operations, procedures, and reference info

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