Fab Lab

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Showroom Slideshow

Enjoy a showcase of designs, projects and products fabricated in FAB LAB San Diego.

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DIY Robotics 1A: Create Your Own Robot

Do you think it is possible to make a robot from your own vacuum cleaner? The learning outcomes associated with [...]

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DIY Robotics 1B: Make Your Own Vehicle

In this class, participants will learn how to make how to make their own remote controlled vehicle. The learning outcomes [...]

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Electronics 1: Introduction to Electricity and Electronics

‘Electronics 101′ is a beginner’s overview of the use of electronics. Through this course, students will learn about the theories [...]

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Electronics 2: Circuit Design

‘Electronic Circuit Design’ is an introductory class to designing and building your own circuit boards. Students will learn basic electronic [...]

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wearable electronics

Electronics 2A: Create Wearable Electronics

Soft Circuitry is the new black in the world of electronics. Learn how to use the Lilypad Arduino and make [...]

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Day 3 JunkBot

Today was the 3rd day of the workshop, and we worked on building our own JunkBot; a junkbot is basically [...]

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day 2 part 3 squiggle bots

we made a drawing with a robot made out of a computer fan we cut off 3 of the fan blades [...]

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Day 2 DIY Robotics

Today, we brought different things in from home for us to hack. Many of the kids here brought a box-full [...]

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Wearable Electronics – Summer 2011 – Student Work

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Wearable Electronics – Summer 2011 – Videos

Watch all the amazing projects created by the students!

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5-2-11 metro sign

Today I learned how to to turn my face into vector art on my image using Adobe Illustrator &  also observed how [...]

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what i learned today

i learned how to use the weave out vynl pictures and how to to design and make stuff so the [...]

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My Fablab Projects

Throughout this class we have made different things.We converted a vector image using the adobe illustrator CS5. We are currently [...]

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what i learned in class

i learned alot in this class and i think it was a pretty interesting i learned how to make really [...]

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John Ward – Portfolio

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Sign Making – Student Work

At FAB LAB @ UCSD Extension – Metro Center, Product Design Sign Making class, students learn about signage systems and [...]

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panda for life

i vectorized this image and then i cut out another picture just like this and then it turned orange on [...]

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fab lab today

in fab lab today i did another enterview for the ucsd students it was fun i like to do the [...]

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fab lab

today in fab lab im goin g to enterview some of the ucsd students and learn some new tool to [...]

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Fab Lab class

on Monday May 9th I quoted my name and other names that were posted on the labels, the whole class [...]

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how its going in fablab class

in fablab class i think is going good and i am learning alot of new things that i didnt know [...]

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Monday 9th – Lizz

Today I felt productive.  I got to make a calendar for the month of May.  Hurray for productivity!  On the [...]

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working with vinyl

today we got some white vinyl material and we cut eight by eleven pieces and we also used adobe illustrator [...]

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today at fablab class

today in fab lab i made my name and found out what serif  was and help people cut their names, [...]

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Quote Ideas – Lizz

He who has imagination without learning, has wings and no feet. Joseph Joubert A wise man will make more opportunities [...]

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jet life sticker

in fab lab today i made a jet life sticker in the roland machine, it was kinda fun i found [...]

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Metro Sign Day 3

today we had to find quotes that we wanted to go on the wall in the room that we are [...]

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week 2, quotes and symbols

  “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” – Martin Luther King We [...]

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Product Design: Sign-Making

Fab Lab San Diego and UCSD Extension present Product Design: Sign Making – a hands-on skill development program, hosted at [...]

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Fab Lab class – working with vectors

Today we learned how the CNC machine viny plotter works. We also made our own picture into stencils with Roland [...]

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vectors – maurice v

today we took a picture and then we uploaded them into the computer after we went into adobe illustrator and [...]

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