• Posted On July 28, 2009
  • BY bashir

Vinyl cutter

Overview Using the Roland Plotter to cut out stickers using Roland cut studio plug in. If you don’t have the Roland cut studio plug in here’s the link for the software. Step 1: Open up Adobe Illustrator Step 2: Click File then open up the artw...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

LTI Project (Temperature Sensor)

When I first came to this internship one of my initial ideas was to make a shower that had a temperature sensor on it so whenever you got in the bathtub you could set the shower head to the specific temperature you want. Since that was a pretty complex pr...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

Making of the Temperature Sensor

The next step to making our temperature sensor would be defining the components that make the sensor what it is. With a lecture from one of the people at the lab I learned that one of the components which was a thermistor is a combination of the two words...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

Pictures of our project

Here are some uploaded pictures of the two projects that we have been working on, the temperature sensor and the Fab @ Home. We are still not finished with either of the projects but I’d thought I’d post these pictures to show what we have bee...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

The Smart Power Conference

Description of the Smart Power Conference Just the other day my mentor Katie Rast took me to a conference focused on disaster relief. It was about getting organizations such as NIUSR, HALO, AFCEA and C4SP together to help poor people and countries get thr...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

What Should Be Done About Poverty

For the past few days the fab lab interns have been doing presentations on each of their projects and seeing how each project connects to one another. During my project about the irregular settlements in Tijuana, I and the interns had engaged in a deep co...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

My Personal Project

For my project I decided to make a glove that looks similar to the gloves worn by Michael Jackson in his performances. To make the project I bought a pair of black gloves from the store and I put dots of crazy glue all over the glove to make it look like ...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

Structure Project

I am assigned to the structure group of the project and we worked on how to make press fit shapes on adobe illustrator under a limited time. Esteban was trying to teach us how to make projects under a limited time becasue the big project that we are doing...

  • Posted On May 8, 2010
  • BY bashir

Cell Phone Project

Over the past few weeks we have been gathering together the materials needed to make a cell phone project for a quadripalegic woman. She is unable to make alot of movements in her limbs so it makes her hard for her to communicate with people on our cell p...