The 10th International Fab Lab Conference and Annual Meeting
I attended an one-weeked conference focussed on open and accessible technologies that will change the world. It gathered the Fab Lab community from more than 40 countries. The activities from this event included a variety kind of workshops, symposium, tours of Fab Labs in Barcelona, kids programs and so on. During the conference, I focussed on wearable technology, environmental concerns, and internet of things.
official website of Fab10 Barcelona: https://www.fab10.org/en/home
official website of Fab10 Barcelona: https://www.fab10.org/en/home
Workshop
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Open crowdfunding for Fab projects
Enric Senabre Hidalgo - Goteo
This workshop represents—in analog mode—how a crowdfunding platform works through dynamic participation. Every participant had ten tokens (blue coins in the picture above) for investing their ideal companies according to the statement in the pie chart.
source: https://www.fab10.org/en/events/fab_festival
Enric Senabre Hidalgo - Goteo
This workshop represents—in analog mode—how a crowdfunding platform works through dynamic participation. Every participant had ten tokens (blue coins in the picture above) for investing their ideal companies according to the statement in the pie chart.
source: https://www.fab10.org/en/events/fab_festival
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Scratch for Arduino
Jose García Yeste, Joan Güell, Laia Sánchez, Citilab, Cornellà de Llobregat.
The workshop introduced the basic function and interface of Scratch for Arduino (S4A). We learned how to build simple indication to guide a virtual ship home without hitting ant obstacles. The main concept behind S4A is creating an easier way to manage sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. By using "blocks" users don't need to memorize programming syntax.
Each team had two computers, which controlled an infrared emitter and receiver separately. One of the computers connected to an emitter sending signals of directions of the ship, and the other one received and interpreted the signals into movements of the ship on screen.
Jose García Yeste, Joan Güell, Laia Sánchez, Citilab, Cornellà de Llobregat.
The workshop introduced the basic function and interface of Scratch for Arduino (S4A). We learned how to build simple indication to guide a virtual ship home without hitting ant obstacles. The main concept behind S4A is creating an easier way to manage sensors and actuators connected to Arduino. By using "blocks" users don't need to memorize programming syntax.
Each team had two computers, which controlled an infrared emitter and receiver separately. One of the computers connected to an emitter sending signals of directions of the ship, and the other one received and interpreted the signals into movements of the ship on screen.
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Textile sensors Betty Mori
Plug and Wear
The instructor introduced smart fabrics which are sensitive to different external conditions such as temperature, light, chemical substances etc. All participants received a kit with four textile sensors: digital button, textile potentiometer, analog pressure button, strain/stretch sensor and we learned how to connect them to LilyPad Arduino (a microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textiles.). We also sewed a textile analog pressure sensor during the workshop.
What is next? After I got to know this technology, I thought about creating medical devices to detect muscle strength for rehabilitation treatment.
Plug and Wear
The instructor introduced smart fabrics which are sensitive to different external conditions such as temperature, light, chemical substances etc. All participants received a kit with four textile sensors: digital button, textile potentiometer, analog pressure button, strain/stretch sensor and we learned how to connect them to LilyPad Arduino (a microcontroller board designed for wearables and e-textiles.). We also sewed a textile analog pressure sensor during the workshop.
What is next? After I got to know this technology, I thought about creating medical devices to detect muscle strength for rehabilitation treatment.
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DIY plant analysis and kite photograpy with Public Lab
Jeffrey Warren - Public Lab
Workshop description: Public Lab community members have used affordable, open source techniques to document pollution and environmental problems around the world, from the BP oil spill to coal tar in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. In this workshop, we'll use hacked infrared cameras to assess plant health, then attach them to kites or balloons to monitor conditions from the perspective of a satellite. Learn how to make your own infrared camera, take false color images and conduct an aerial survey of a polluted site near your own home.
source: https://www.fab10.org/en/fab-festival
We positioned a near-infrared camera, which took a photo every two seconds, on a kite to record the environment surrounded DHUB, and uploading to http://infragram.org for analyzing.
Jeffrey Warren - Public Lab
Workshop description: Public Lab community members have used affordable, open source techniques to document pollution and environmental problems around the world, from the BP oil spill to coal tar in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. In this workshop, we'll use hacked infrared cameras to assess plant health, then attach them to kites or balloons to monitor conditions from the perspective of a satellite. Learn how to make your own infrared camera, take false color images and conduct an aerial survey of a polluted site near your own home.
source: https://www.fab10.org/en/fab-festival
We positioned a near-infrared camera, which took a photo every two seconds, on a kite to record the environment surrounded DHUB, and uploading to http://infragram.org for analyzing.
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Internet of Things
Charalampos Doukas - Compose
We had a brief introduction of how everything may connect and interact to each other in the future. This workshop was based on the Spark Core device (A tiny Wi-Fi development board that makes it easy to create internet-connected hardware.); we connected humidity and temperature sensor to Spark Core and monitored their behavior on the web.
This workshop is an internet-based project. The Spark Core we used had a chip antenna. All data could be uploaded and calculated on the Cloud. This project showed us the possibility that we can use our own smart devices to build a monitoring system or observing and analyzing surroundings by connecting electronics to the internet.
Charalampos Doukas - Compose
We had a brief introduction of how everything may connect and interact to each other in the future. This workshop was based on the Spark Core device (A tiny Wi-Fi development board that makes it easy to create internet-connected hardware.); we connected humidity and temperature sensor to Spark Core and monitored their behavior on the web.
This workshop is an internet-based project. The Spark Core we used had a chip antenna. All data could be uploaded and calculated on the Cloud. This project showed us the possibility that we can use our own smart devices to build a monitoring system or observing and analyzing surroundings by connecting electronics to the internet.
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Digital fabrication in textiles for wearables
Anastasia Pistofidou, Zoe Romano
Since laser cutters are more accessible day by day, this workshop led us to seek different opportunities for fabrication of garments in the future. Our task was to design a module which can be connected to each other in a variety of directions. We started from paper prototyping to 2D digital sketching in Grasshopper, and then put our ideal into practice by laser cutting.
Anastasia Pistofidou, Zoe Romano
Since laser cutters are more accessible day by day, this workshop led us to seek different opportunities for fabrication of garments in the future. Our task was to design a module which can be connected to each other in a variety of directions. We started from paper prototyping to 2D digital sketching in Grasshopper, and then put our ideal into practice by laser cutting.