projects

  • Prosthetic Alignment Laser
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    Prosthetics Program
     
    This project is collaboration between Fablab Amsterdam,
    Fablab India Netaji Subhas, New Delhi,
    arctic MIT Fablab Norway.
     
    The goal is to engineer a low cost prosthetic alignment laser (P.A.L) system that meets (almost) the specifications of ottobocks L.A.S.A.R system.
    A cheap DIY kit made in a Fablab would allow prosthetic makers in developing countries
    to have a professional tool to improve the alignment of limb prosthetics on their patients.
     
    The collaboration consists of:

  • SelfCity wearable
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    SelfCity:
    SelfCity is a serious game for adolescents in the age of 13-15 with a social skills disability to practice social skills. The pupils are often emotionally impaired as the result of ADHD, PDD, NOS or neglect. In the game the pupils are accompanied by a buddy (deamon). This deamon functions as an advisor to the pupils in difficult and stressfull situations.

  • Scottie
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    Non-verbal, implicit forms of communication are essential in keeping intimate relationships.

    The project named Scottie researches the possibilities of using information and communication technology to create virtual immediacy between long-stay absentees and their primary social contact group.

  • Plastic Bender Machine
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    Plastic Bender project:
    by Tomas Diez & Alex Schaub
    A collaboration between fablab BCN and Amsterdam

    Abstract:
    We want to create  a (intelligent) plastic bender that can be reproduced in a fablab with the standard inventory of machines.

    Requirments:
    - automatic bending proces
    - possibility for bending by hand
    - programmable presets for different materials and thickness
    - precision < 1mm (0.0393")
    - bending lenth = 1.22m (48,03")
    - bending angle = < 300 degree
    - thickness = < 12mm (0.472")

  • mooimuis
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    Mooimuis in the creation of a toddler adapted device for interaction with computer software.
    The idea is to create an intelligent toy that will react to the input given by the child through movement, touch and sound. The reaction would be transmitted to a software specially designed for this device that would give input back to the child.
    The goal in this dynamic is to create interactions that help develop the important points a child needs to develop in this age, and to adapt these interactions to their very fast pace of growth.

  • Fablab Yogyakarta Indonesia
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    Our goal is to build a Fablab in Indonesia in cooperation with a local media&art laboratory (HONF) to empower local users to make products for their local needs. The Fablab will provide cutting-edge tools & a technology workshop allowing local users to create and manufacture, among many other potential products: prostheses and transportation vehicles for physically challenged people furniture …to sell abroad to increase local income

  • Bow Making
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    Next to all the research we try to do in various fields concerning clean energy and the likes, I figured it is also important to do something else... As long as it conrtibutes to the gathered knowledge here.

    This project is not about anything you need, or something that solves worldwide issues. But it will learn you a lot about handeling materials, and machines.

     

  • doorstep climber
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    Project to make public spaces more accessible for wheelchairs.

    For the biggest part of my life I've been using a wheelchair to move around.
    The electric wheelchair is one of the main inventions for people who are physically challenged, to be able to go wherever they want to go. Since the introduction many people who didn't leave their homes up until then found themselves able to take part in the normal things of live. Through the years the most common chair has evolved into a compact machine, capable of driving arround for about 40 kilometres at a speed of 9.5 kmph.

  • RepRap Masterclass
    RepRap 1.0 Darwin

    The RepRap is a do-it-yourself 3D printer, capable of reproducing (most) of it's own parts. The name RepRap is deducted from Replicating Rapid Prototyper, designed by Adrian Bowyer, professor at Bath University, England. Instructions and all necessary data are available completely free of charge to anyone who wants to build a personal 3D printer.

  • GloveBox
    GloveBox 
    The VASTAL Virginarium is a six person Glove Box artistically designed by Adam Zaretsky and Mason Juday. The glove box is being made using the WAAG Society¹s FabLab laser cutting and rapid prototyping machinery. It is designed to provide a sterile field for Bioart Laboratories. But it is also designed for public performances, which revolve around cultural interpretive issues of purity, sterility and cleanliness.