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An exciting proposal : A roving Fab Lab! [nov.17.2005] Imagine a bus filled with fablab equipment pulling into a small community. Over the course of a weekend or several weeks, the volunteers aboard the bus welcome community children and adults to learn about personal fabrication and finding local solutions to local problems. Local appetites whetted, the bus packs up and moves on to the next village. This is the vision of the Costa Rica Fablab. A newly formed Central American Fablab Foundation is days away from receiving their non-profit status and contract with MIT CBA (11/17/2005). Their immediate focus will be on obtaining a bus retrofitted for this very specialized use. Can you help? We'd like to have the bus originate in Boston, Massachusetts, USA where we will initially outfit the bus with the Fablab tools and consumables. Here, the South End Technology Center Fablab users will get a chance to work with the Costa Rican Fablab-bus users. The bus will then be driven to Florida and put aboard a ferry for the long trip to Costa Rica. Could there be a stop in your city? We need your help making the Central American Fablab Foundation funds go as far as possible. In particular, we're seeking help with
Please contact fab-info at cba dot mit dot edu if you have suggestions or can provide assistance.
Fab Lab Camps [dec.13-14.2004] We are working on the equipment of a mobile Fab Lab so that more people can have access to its different machines and technologies. The first step to achieve these goals was the making of a workshop using some of the Fab Lab tools (vinyl cutter, scanner and a couple of computers). We call this workshop a “Fab Lab Camp”. On the Camp, we worked with some children of a local school. In two days, the children were able to construct a project. In this first part we were able to measure the administrative cost of transporting the different Fab Lab tools. Variables that were considered include: type of transportation, protection for the machines, time of transportation and time of installation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Costa Rican Fab Labbers at Boston [dec.23.2004-jan.24.2005] On December 2004 and January 2005 we visited Boston. We stayed for 5 weeks, in which we had the chance to work at SETC (South End Technology Center) and use the Laser Cutter, which we don’t have here yet. We also participated on the Fab Lab meeting (January 18). People from all around the world, somehow involved with Fab Lab, participated in this event. With them, we shared ideas and experiences. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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