Fab academy 2012
INSTRUCTORS
Bereketnesh Girma/ Aysheshim Tilahun
STUDENTS
Ayele Bedada/Habtamu G.Meskel/Getnet Sewnet/
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Contact
Fablab Addis
Bereketnesh Girma +251 911 16 18 60
Bereketnesh@yahoo.com
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Site:
Fab Applicants workshop
Workshop participants making their designs in the workshop…
Making Prototypes from Cutouts.
Displayed works of participants.
Fab applicants workshop held at Fablab Addis, at Alle School of Fine Arts and Design.
The applicants were requested to present their works which they did previously and explained how joining the Fablab would assist them in developing their started projects and also those which are on the IDEA stage.
Projects
‘ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR MEDICAL DEVICES’
By Jose Gomez-Marquez from D-Lab at MIT will show us a couple of the medical devices he uses for developing countries. D- Lab program is the development of appropriate technologies and sustainable solutions within the framework of international development. D-Lab’s mission is to improve the quality of life of low-income households through the creation and implementation of low cost technologies. Jose and his team are deploying a series of small fridges (3) for tuberculosis patients that use both solar power and Arduino powered SMS boards. The fridges will ping us every time the patient uses it.
Place: Alle School of Fine Arts and Design @ FabSpace
Date: Friday; November 11/4/2011;
Everyone is invited to come and do creative hacking!!!
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Projects widely mentioned here, by the fablab students all over the world, have been revised by Professor Neil Gershenfeld on June 2, 2010.
‘Art and Technology’ Workshop
Workshop One is Going to be held at Alle School of Fine Arts and Design compound (FabLab Addis):
The workshops’ aim is to make Children make almost anything!!!
Place: New building underground
Time and Date: December 19-21
The Youth will be trained on Computer Aided Designing, Basics of Electronics and Silkscreen will be covered.
Youths Who are aged from 12-15; Who likes to draw manually , using computers and knows a little about programming will Join Us.
Let us imagine and produce new images and finally we will make a monster and make his LED eyes’ blink.
Come and Share the Fun!!
Contact
Fablab Addis
Bereketnesh Girma
++(251)911 16 18 60
bereketnesh@yahoo.com
bereketnesh@art.aau.edu.et
Addis Ababa
Ethiopia
Site: http://fablabaddis.wordpress.com/
Fab Academy – Addis Ababa;Open For Application
***The hard copy can be found at Addis Ababa University, Alle school of fine arts and Design, Registrar Office***
Fab Academy Graduation
FabAcademy graduates from all around (also via video conference) the world gathered for graduation
Student Aysheshim Tilahuns Computer Controlled Dooby Machine
Fab Academy graduation ceremony took place at the fab6.nl Conference held in Amsterdam in August 2010. Students participated locally and remotely via videoconference in the closing event of the Symposium of Digital Fabrication. Students received lasercutted Diplomas and CNC milled Medals, in consideration for the hard work developed along the year.Once the Fab Academy diploma is achieved, students can become gurus at their local labs, by replicating themselves teaching new students at the academy. This educational systems guarantees training for Lab Managers and faculty for the academy.
The Fab Academy started as a trial in 2008 where the students have accepted their diploma in september 2009. The current graduates started on September 2009, with the participation of 16 Labs world wide. Finally 6 labs have finished with at least two students in the Fab Academy 2009-10 program. Fab Academy graduation ceremony took place at the Fab6 Conference held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in August 2010. The different projects can be found at
fabacademy.org/blog
academy.cba.mit.edu/labs/Providence/index.html
fablabbcn.org
fabacademysosh.wordpress.com
fab.cba.mit.edu/academy/labs/Vestmannaeyjar
This year the FabAcademy in Barcelona had students from Peru (two students) and Ethiopia (three students) , who will be future gurus in the fablabs in their country. These new fablabs will be open by the end of the year 2010 by the logistic and technical support from Fablab Barcelona.
To learn more about the FabAcademy you can also visit :
fab.cba.mit.edu
www.fabacademy.org
Home
FabAddis will be Activated starting from September 15, 2011
FabLab Addis Presents Workshop called
ART and TECHNOLOGY
Workshop One is Going to be held in School of Fine Arts and Design :
September 14-16
MAKING CHILDREN MAKE ALMOST ANYTHING!!!
Who can draw using computers?
Who is creative?
Who likes to draw and paint manually?
Who knows a little about programming?
Children from age 12-15 can Join us….
FabAcademy Graduation July 3, 2010
The Fablab Ethiopia and Fablab Peru future coordinators after 10 months graduated in Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia(IAAC).
The FabAcademy students graduated in IAAC hall together with the Students who studied Architecture. The graduation cermony started in the Institute and concluded by the beach party
SOLAR HOUSE INSTALLATION IN IAAC
The solar house construction is proceeding with great speed. Details on
Fablab Barcelona Installing a new CNC Milling Machine
These days, people of the Fablab Barcelona have been spending more of their time on Building Machines and Assembling a Machine that just arrived. The New Model CNC milling Machine, with the Spindle power of 5Hp is an awesome state of the art machine from the Shopbot
We are looking forward to have the same machine in Ethiopia,on the coming September 2010.
The fablabs are meant to use digital tools in making ‘almost any thing’ . CNC machines, Laser cutting machines and other digital production tools are included and these when used in places like fablabs help in producing other machines of unlimited kinds.
Arrival of the machine
Taking out the parts from the shipment boxes
Starting the installations
The bed of the machine installed
The gantry installed on top
Wiring of the machine
Neil Greshenfield In Barcelona
On the opening day of the fabrication process for the Solar Fab Lab House Project - http://www.fablabhouse.com/ lead by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia http://www.iaac.net/, the Center for Bit and Atoms del MIT and a world-wide network of fab labs http://fab.cba.mit.edu/ – Neil Greshenfield visited the Fab Lab Barcelona.
He commented on students work about their previous projects in Casting and Molding class, Electronics Design and Production, and also showed them MIT’s current works with other students.
The Solar Fab Lab House is a proto type subjected to formal criteria as well as constructive logics and energy efficiency in which all of the agents that have actively participated will form part of their subsequent development. Read more…
