FAB7 ANNUAL MEETING
FAB7 will
be held in Lima, Peru
the week of August 15, 2011. Start fundraising NOW for your travel and
registration costs.
United States Fab Lab Network (USFLN) ANNUAL MEETING
January 26-28, 2011
meeting and symposium at the new Blue Valley CAPS Fab Lab
in Kansas. For
more information about the USFLN symposium in January 2011:
Carol King (USFLN Communications Director) --
carol.king@fabfolk.com
Trevor Sutcliffe (symposium host/coordinator) --
TSutcliffe@bluevalleyk12.org
For questions and/or assistance with registration:
Anna Richardson
-- arichardson@bluevalleyk12.org
or tel. 913--239--5900
BOOT CAMP
This year we
are hosting a distributed
Boot Camp, leveraging the internationally connected network of fab
labs
as host sites. In addition to Norway, there will be several other
locations
that will serve as hosts for the one week crash training course in Fab
Lab tools and processes. DATES: January 10-14, 2011. Cost: To be
determined by local fab lab, but probably around $2K
to $2.5K for the
week, plus transportation and hotel. We are waiting for confirmation
from hosting sites, which we should have within the next week.
For those who want to attend Boot Camp, please check the Fab
Academy
site at the end of this week for schedule and location details. http://fabacademy.org/
There will be 3 or 4 labs hosting in Europe, and possibly 1 or 2 labs in the US.
FAB ACADEMY
Fab
Academy will begin the week of January 17, 2011. Please see Fab
Academy website for application and information. http://fabacademy.org/
JOBS AND OPPS
MOBILE FAB LABS
The MIT Mobile Fab Lab visited
Washington, D.C. twice in October: once for Congress to experience the fab
lab as they consider H.R. 6003 (National Fab Lab Network
bill), and
once to participate in
the USA Science & Engineering Festival on the Mall in DC. Both
events had good turnout: several senators
and critical committees which will vote on the bill dropped by, on thge
first trip, about a thousand
young people, parents, educators and government representatives came by
the lab to make something during the science festival.
The Metropolitan Cleveland
Consortium for
STEM received a grant this summer to build a mobile fab
lab to serve STEM schools in the Cleveland area. The organization has
now purchased the lab equipment, the mobile unit, and is working on
designing physical, organizational and educational infrastructure to
support the outreach effort. The goal is to have the lab on the road by
June 2011.
NETWORK GROWTH
In the US, we know of two new labs
officially opening in the last month: Blue Valley High's new Fab Lab in Overland Park,
Kansas
University of Illinois's
new Fab Lab, in Urbana, Illinois
Overseas we know you are busy, but just don't know who's opening
what, when and where. Send us a note so we can find you, contact you
and when appropriate, add you to the lab list --update in progress!
Send mail to fab-info@cba.mit.edu
with the subject line: New Fab Lab For List.
First Place Small Ship: Noah
Rasor for Noah's Ark,
Lorain County Community College
Fab Lab
Second Place Small Ship: Kenny Cheung, for the Fabu Canoe, MIT
Best Large Vessel Class: Jelle Boomstra,
Fabula, Protospace/FabLab Utrecht
Best Small Vessel Class: Bart Hogebrink for Chill Boat, Protospace/FabLab
Utrecht
Coolest Vessel Class: Pieter Cilliers, Southern Wright, Cape Craft and
Design Institute Fab Lab
FAB FOLK
Fab
Folk is holding its first annual fundraiser, a raffle for FR1circuit
board stock. Guess how much Lass's cowboy boot weighs when filled with
FR1 and you get all that circuit board stock plus some more. Keep
your eyes on the Fab Folk website for the announcement
later this week: http://fabfolk.com/
The Fab Folk store is open for business!
FR1 boards and other hard-to-source electronics and supplies now for
sale in small quantities via FabFolk,. See http://store.fabfolk.com/
for details.
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