Posts Tagged ‘FAB’
The Classroom Fabrication Laboratory
A really beautiful video showing how young people are exploring fabrication.
‘They begin to internalise incredibly complex mathematical concepts… I see incredible risk taking. They are willing to mess around with the software. I haven’t given them any instructions in the software, I haven’t said here are the cuboids or here are the shapes or whatever. I just let them open it up and go for it and they ask each questions to try and figure it out.’
Paula White, Teacher Crozet Elementary.
For more information on the software shown see http://www.aspexsoftware.com/desktop_engineering.htm
The Future of 3d Printing
While reading Scott Summit’s work on 3d printed prosthetics I stumbled across this video from the Singularity University. In this 50 minute lecture Scott discuss the current state of 3d scanning and 3d printing. Summit explores where we are heading and what we can achieve when we throw out the old rules of mass production and invent new tools that require new rules.
Digital fabrication examples part II – Art & Design
Art & Design
Street Clocks
Fluid Form is one of an increasing number of personalised product companies. Easy to use online tools allow the customer to design unique creations based on geographical data (maps, topography etc). Read more: http://www.fluid-forms.com/
Digital fabrication examples part 1 – Fashion & Architecture
Digital fabrication, or fabbing, is the name given to a range of techniques and technologies that can make physical things from your digital data. Create your design in your favourite 2d or 3d package then send it to one of a range of machines that can cut, machine, drill, or sculpt your design into a physical object.
Fabbing has been around for decades but recently cheaper and more powerful equipment has made it far more accessible to creative makers. The range of things that you can create with fabbing technology is increasing by the day. Here are a few of our current favourites.
Thinking Digital Videos
The videos of all the speakers at Thinking Digital 2010 have just gone up over at http://videos.thinkingdigital.co.uk/category/thinking-digital-2010-day-one/.
I have already written a little about a few of my favourite talks so check them out.
The one session I really wanted to write about in my previous post was a talk by Tom Wujec (I tried several times but I just couldn’t do it justice).
The video below is essential viewing for anybody interested in near future technologies and especially those interested in the future of digital fabrication.
Tom Wujec speaking at #TDC10 from Herb Kim on Vimeo.
All things ‘FAB’ at Open Labs
One of our key missions here at Open Labs@LJMU is to support individuals, students and micro SMEs in the digital and creative sector. We help them to identify new and emerging technologies and offer assistance in exploiting these new ideas.
Our first major project will be exploring the world of digital fabrication or ‘fabbing’ – the tools, techniques and processes that can turn your digital designs into physical objects in the real world.
