Today, while introducing a new intern to the basic concepts of the Fab Lab, we began to discuss various humanitarian efforts currently in effect; primarily the Hippo Roller, LifeVillage, wood burning stoves and the Fab Lab network’s own FabFi.
Apparently, the Xylotex board managed to get fried, so at the moment we are corresponding with Kenji to see if there is anything we can do to salvage it. In the meanwhile, I’ve been doing some research on the various applications of a three-dimensio...
The summer program at the San Diego Heads On Fire Fab Lab has just begun. So far, we have all been required to create a personal project relating to you, a sort of “roadmap of your life”, if you will. Many students here have created something ...
Over the course of the past week, the electronic’s team has been working to create a DRAWDIO circuit. The DRAWDIO circuit is linked to a pencil and uses graphite as a conductor to create enough current to produce sound, depending on the pressure app...
Last Tuesday, the interns at the San Diego Fab Lab ventured out to the Mission Trails Regional Park to log GPS data of the trails. We spent approximately six hours hiking the trails and recording waypoints that would show prominent landmarks and various t...
Today, I assisted Jake with his public installation piece that involves lights that are activated by the passing of day. He is planning on using rocks that utilize sensors that respond to darkness. At the moment, we are attempting to create structures to ...
Over the course of the past eight weeks, I have worked as a paid intern at the San Diego Heads on Fire Fab Lab where I have learned many skills that can be applied both personally and professionaly, such as soldering electrical components, GPS mapping and...
The structure team’s public installation piece is nearing completion. At the moment, we are installing th LEDs and the last of the wooden pieces. The plan is to add a panel that would activate in response to human touch, thus causing the lights in t...
Well, I’ve developed a plan of action on how to repair the three-dimensional printer. It is as follows: 1: Contact Kenji and obtain an estimate on a new Xylotex board. 2: Send for a new one. 3: Program Xylotex board with 4-axis program. 4: Replace b...
Here are a few pics from the nearly completed structure project: This stucture represents the energy in a community, both figuratively and literally. It harnesses solar power to light up the flames that surround the structure’s center.
We are currently in the midst of creating a structure that will provide a disabled individual access to basic functions of a celluar phone. At the moment, we have created a base, upon which the cell phone will rest, and a curved structure, as to provide s...
In the Fab Lab theirs a lot of hands on interactions with making new things. We learned how to work safely with the machines to maximize a good experience in our creations. Since we had to start a “personal project” It had to Reflect our Past ...
Few days ago I was assigned to help set up the enternet in this Fab Lab. I was intrested to put my Networking experince to the Test. I began by makeing the Ethernet cables by sizeing them up and sliceing up from the tips of the cables. once they where set...
I had Recently started editing with imovie yet I understood the way it worked with some guilde I am able to work proficently, before I used imovie I’ve created a few movies in adobe premire and movie maker that have made it to the AOIT film Festavia...
Yesterday we had to work on Weaving our Red light LEDs to our items. I was vary Interested in doing this project because i had planned out in advance how i wanted it to work. i had pictured the glove to have most of the weaving concealed under the glove a...
Now all the Computers in the Fab Labatory of San Deigo have Internet!!! It took a while to figure it all out. with guildince from Fabiola I was able to complete the network for the Internet to work. I think it was a great experince for me because in the P...
We Where Intoduced to Google Sketchup yesterday in order to began getting an idea of 3D design. It was a Great Tutrorial by Estaban who guilded us though the whole thing. Some of it was reviewing skills for me since I used it in my Muitmedia Class Before,...
As a Member of the structure group, I was asked by our leader Estaban to Create a piece of Artistic design that would somehow work with the way Sun light. My Idea was a part of the Roofing. IÂ had only a limited time to turn my Idea into a prototype to sh...
Today in the Fab Lab we had to creat a frist Written Storyboard of my Project. I’ve Fouced on Networking, Therefore, i wanted to make a format that combined with my Pervious Wiki Networking Tutorial. Eventually, i had about 12 different sections whi...
Today our Team was asked by our Leader Estaban to make a building type project useing Adobe Illistrator. this project is to fit together by Pressfiting all the parts in order to make them bigger and taller. The project was time critcal because we need to ...
Three days ago we had to creat a life traceing google earth video of our lives. From where we where born to present day. doing this projrect was intresting because i got to see my birth place agian which is silao guanjuato which is a city in mexico. this ...
Yesterday, we all got to enter the Mission Trials Regional Park in order to do GPS graphing. At frist we watched a short film in the theater Room in order to excel in understanding how to enjoy the park and not distory it by doing sinceless actions. Onc...
Hi my name is Blas Vazquez I’m one of the chosen few to work at this interesting worksite the Fab Lab. My first Project was to do a Networking Tutorial: about how to install and repair a network. This experience was good for going over the skills of...
Today I used the Laser Cutter to make precision cut circles from 1/8 inch wood sheet. I want build an analog device, a geartrain to demonstrate addition and multiplication. Machine shop services are very expensive, and online fabrication is not free eithe...
How did I make it? I made it by taking a piece of wood and then using the laser cutter and Some of things that would represent me, something that symbolizes me what represents me. A Panda is something that symbolizes me because I am sleepy and lazy at “...
On Thursday 7.17.09 I thought at first to put LED’s on my shoes to make them light up, but then I thought of just adding them on my backpack. I thought it would be a good idea and pretty cool too, so what I did was just add the thread on my backpack...
I have just finished my draw-dio pencil, and it was very hard to do so much soldering and so many little parts to solder. This was very fun to do and takes up a lot of time but at the end its very awesome how the electricity flows through our body and to ...
So I have just finished doing my second drawdio pencil for one of my construction team mate, I wonder who will get my drawdio pencil. This was an easier pencil to do because I knew what parts went where. And it was very simple and what cut lines that I ne...
Once the whole electronics team were done with our second drawdio we were given a task to get started on our new project on Solar Pannels. I helped Fabiola today to look up some Solar Power Controllers and Fry’s Electronics failed us so bad trying t...
So apparently we are having some worries with Jakes structure. We have been working with lights but the thig is that its inside of a rock the design it was made. Now we would have to check if they would fit inside the small crampped area of the box, we wo...
This is a very late entry but I believe that this is the only blog that I a missing so far from everything I have done so far. This was an interesting project or introduction or getting to know more of the features of google earth, we had to rally point p...
