What is it ? Fablab required everyone to make a personal project which represent your past, present and future. How is it made ? I made the wall of the school with cardboard, I use the vinyl machine to cut out all the window for the school. The railing an...
At the beginning, I was making a flower. A flower represents my personality. Every petal shows my development that will never stop, always advancing progressively. However, when I started to work on the flower, it transformed into a new specimen, a pineap...
Overview The summer interns were split into two teams, one whose focus was electronics and one whose focus was on structures. The structure team was tasked with designing and building three large scale public structures. One of the structure teams wanted ...
Last week high schools students at FAB LAB summer program had the opportunity to videochat with team members of the “Valley of the Khans” Mongolia field expedition. The Valley of the Khans Project is a nondestructive archaeological survey util...
On Tuesday, Leo gave a presentation on cartography and GPS. He showed us that cartography is the art and science of knowing where you are and what is around you. Cartography basically means making maps. So, what is a map? A map is a drawing of the sky, th...
Mr. Schmitdkey came to lab today to explain to use what Global Positioning System and Geographic Information System. GPS uses cartesian data points or rectangular coordinate system and polar coordinate system. This then is relayed as vector coordinates wh...
This morning we had a man named Steven Shmitdkey come in and tell us about GPS devices. He gave us a device that we are going to be using next tuesday when we take our trip to mission trails. Next Tuesday we are going to Mission Trails Park to map one of ...
On Tuesday the , we all went to the Mission Trails National Park, to take pictures and map whatever we could find interesting to visitors there. So, I was in the 1st FabLab team led by Esteban and Shani. We and our GPS -(Global Positioning System) and GIS...
Earlier this week, Steven Schmitdkey from the US Census Bureau came to talk to us about how to use the GPS he loaned to us, and about some things to keep in mind when we go to Mission Trails. He explained lots of things and I have to admit, there were so ...
A compilation of video documentation. High school students at FAB LAB SD summer intensive program learning about electronics and digital fabrication applications.
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– Setup: Since we moved the computers around (blame MakerFaire!), we needed to change permissions on the machine connected to the Modela by going into usr/bin/dev and we did a sudo chmod 777 ttyS0 We had sent several jobs to the Modela and to kill i...
We are currently in the midst of creating a structure that will provide a disabled individual access to basic functions of a cellular phone. At the moment, we have created a base, upon which the cell phone will rest, and a curved structure, as to provide ...
I have been working with SDSU VIZLAB and the MIT Fab Lab San Diego division we have been working on a communication method that is equivalent to the one laptop per child project. The One Laptop Per Child computer systems are no longer readily available in...
It is the ancient concept recently returning to scientific thought that examines nature, its models, systems, processes, and elements. It is a fusion of two words, Bios which means life in ancient Greek and mimesis which also is in Greek and means to copy...
In the last few weeks I have been working with other interns to create a cell phone holder for a disabled lady who cant move her hands verry well. We have worked on many differnet prototypes but came out with one that we thought would work best for hr nee...
Last Thursday our group of interns presented the cell phone holder for a lady named Pam that has a disease called multiple sclerosis which basically is when her body is paralyzed from the neck down. She can move her hands but does not have the strength to...
so today while i was listening to the head of H design talk i had a few ideas the first was a portable cooking system based on a very durable rubber, so my idea was we could use this plastic make a kinda furnace design that is very portable with a metal t...
culture, communication, money, religion are what devide people (kayla) fear devides people and unite africa under a union – Azriah ROX money seperates people, depend on a society and how things are set up. social stats money communication, fear of t...
My name is Azriah Minovi, I am a high school student in San Diego at cortez hill , and I have been working with SDSU VIZLAB and the MIT Fab Lab San Diego division. We have been working on a communication method that is equivalent to the one laptop per chi...
Today Brian and i researched furthering the parabolic ideas to extend the wifi range. We found a formula and a parabolic calculator and we scaled our results down and took them into ink scape to format correctly for the laser cutter. We also added support...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Laureles Canyon (http://seniorsequence.net/sr/gcrt/gc_detail.php?gcid=24) – Laureles Canyon has become a living urban laboratory for innovative solutions – Only covers a few square miles – A virtual microcosm of the city of Tijuana and t...
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...
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 ...
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...
This morning we had a man named Steven Shmitdkey come in and tell us about GPS devices. He gave us a device that we are going to be using next tuesday when we take our trip to mission trails. Next Tuesday we are going to Mission Trails Park to map one of ...
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...
Over the course of the past several weeks, we have been in the process of creating a structure as to house the celluar phone of Pam, a woman with multiple sclerosis. Here are several photographs detailing the evnts that took place: Caption: Affixing the p...
