Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab

Hello Ms. Barrett,

Mary Gen and I wanted to thank you and all the volunteers again of behalf of our team for helping us finish our acrylic plaques on time for delivery. We went down to East Saint Louis the very next day and successfully installed them on a wall of the public computing lab we were setting up. Please find attached a few pictures of the final outcome. We think they look great against the purple wall we painted and the pictures were included in our final presentation, so now a few more library science students know how awesome the Fab Lab is!!

Happy holiday,

Josephine

MLIS candidate
Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Link to Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69844263@N03/sets/72157628436550595/with/6518517415/

First test print with the Makerbot Cupcake - still need to rig up a heated platform for full production cycle

UPDATE #1

Join us for discussion and planning of upcoming events at the fab lab Tuesday December 13th at 5:30 PM - light refreshments available

Here is a slideshow from Fab Off 2011, held on Saturday October 22nd 2011.

We had a wonderful time hosting the other Fab Labs, and met a lot of creative, talented, and friendly people!

Direct Link: Fab Off 2011 Photo Set on Flickr

This is a slideshow of Steve Holt's impressive, artisitic, and prolific collection of Fab Lab projects.  Enjoy!

Direct Link: Steve Holt's Fab Lab Portfolio Photo Set on Flickr

Come and join our curriculum committe discussion.  The curriculum committee is planning to meet on Tuesday, November 15 around 6pm.

Agenda:

• Review list from Operations committee's minutes
• Class ideas for next year 
• Kits and other curriculum for on and off site groups
• Anything else?

Join us for discussion and planning of upcoming events at the fab lab Tuesday November 8th at 5:30 PM - light refreshments available

The Fab Lab will be closed the following days over the 2011/2012 Holliday Season:

• Tuesday, November 22nd - Thanksgiving Break
• Thursday, November 24th - Thanksgiving Day
• Sunday, December 25th - Christmas Day
• Sunday, January 1st - New Years Day

Here are a few pictures from the first Blue Platter Saturday, October 8th.

If you missed the event, please joint us next Saturday, October 15th from 9 am to 12 pm.

Join us for discussion and planning of upcoming events at the fab lab - light refreshments available

The Champaign-Urbana Community will be holding the first ever Fab Off!

A Fab Off is...

-an opportunity to come together and meet people from other fab labs

-a chance to interact with new materials (from www.inventables.com)

-a build session with a team of enthusiastic fabbers

-a chance to win wildly "intrinsically motivating" prizes (read that to mean of little or no monetary value

-good food and festivities

Blue Platter Saturdays are events that CUCFL puts together as workshops for experimenting with new processes or materials.

The first one will be October 8th form 9 am to 12 pm.

Come join us for the the first meeting of the operations committee for Fall 2011 at 5:30 pm at the fab lab next Tuesday, September 6th.  Among other things, we will be discussing:

1) Our new open lab hours, and staffing schedules by student assistant lab managers

2) Fab Off pre-planning

3) Digital Media & Learning Competition 4 (online Thursday September 15)
http://dmlcompetition.net/

FAB7 this year was in Lima, Peru. It was hosted and organized by the University students with the help of MIT. We had a great time there and met some amazing people. The challenge/competition this year was to build an Ambulante, a street vendor. These are very popular in Lima and all the fab labs were encouraged to build one. Our lab built a Pop Corn Ambulante. It was a hit, although we did not win, we most definitely got the people's choice award :).

The Fab Lab will be closed on Sunday August 14, 2011. Many of our volunteers are attending the Fab 7 conference in Lima, Peru and we will not have enough volunteers to staff the lab on this day. A link to the conference's website can be found here.  Normal hours will resume on Thursday August 18, 2011. We are sorry for the inconvenience.