UI Extension – 4H 3D Printer Club
Click on the photo above to read the full release. Many thanks to Lorie Becraft, Judy Schmidt, Gabriel Ewing, Chris Sketch, Jay Babin, Ryan Branch,
Makerspace Class 2015!
Students will be posting some of their projects and process from the 2015 Makerspace class on this blog. Stay tuned for more.
Fab Lab 2015 Open House
The Fab Lab held a jam-packed Open House on February 6th that brought people together from the university and community in this unique learning and
Winter Break Closings
Sun, 12/14/2014 – 16:46 — Geph We will be closed for Winter Break for several days!
Personalized Word Clock
Wed, 10/15/2014 – 07:53 — Robert McGrath Another cool idea from Instructables–arduino clock, with personalized messages. Great for a personalized present…. http://www.instructables.com/id/Personalised-Word-Clock/
Plans for 3D printed Quad copter
Sun, 10/12/2014 – 09:24 — Robert McGrath Possibly of interest, complete plans and instructions for ” 3D Printed Quadcopter with Arduino” from Instructables. It looks like
Cool Project: ROBOPuppet
Sun, 10/05/2014 – 10:43 — Robert McGrath Possibly of interest: very cool robot programming methodology–use 3D printer plus arduino to make hand held model. Teach
Instructables Project: Cool Desk Idea
Fri, 09/19/2014 – 08:31 — Robert McGrath A cool project from Instructables: the Hanster Wheel Desk If I had one of these, I’d want
3D Pen Constuct
Tue, 09/16/2014 – 08:47 — Robert McGrath From Hong Kong, a “lace” dress, constructed with a “3D Pen”. This has got to be the hard
September Orientation Series
Sun, 09/14/2014 – 22:31 — Geph We’re happy to announce the September 2014 Fab Lab Orientation series! Join us during general open hours from 6-7:30p
Not Exact Ruby, Nor Slippers, But…
Sun, 08/31/2014 – 16:08 — Robert McGrath An interesting art work/gadget from Dominic Wilcox: “GPS Shoes“. These shoes can be programmed to give directions, and
Minecraft Creative Server Down
Tue, 08/19/2014 – 10:54 — Geph Fab Lab Minecraft server is down until we negotiate a solution with the University Firewall or Comcast off-site. It
Possibly of interest: Walk-In Origami Klaediscope!!!
Thu, 07/24/2014 – 08:51 — Robert McGrath An awesome walk-in kaleidoscope! From Kobe (I needed to translate the blog page), this is built as a
Raspberry Pi B+ Now Out
Tue, 07/15/2014 – 10:00 — Geph http://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-b-broadcom-pinout,27248.html
UIUC Bio Bots
Thu, 07/10/2014 – 10:27 — Robert McGrath Yet more awesomeness out of UIUC Bioengineering. Tiny Robots! Powered by muscle tissue! Fabbers will be interested that
Possibly of Interest: 3D Printing and Art Works
Thu, 07/10/2014 – 10:22 — Robert McGrath A piece last week aggregated some recent art works that use 3D printing. These projects may be inspirational
Possibly of interest: Autodesk Labs Bio/Nano/Programmable Group
Mon, 06/30/2014 – 09:43 — Robert McGrath Possibly of interest: Autodesk Labs is investigating 4D printing among other things http://www.autodeskresearch.com/groups/nano Wild and crazy stuff and
Kids come up with the most adorable plushie designs.
Sat, 06/21/2014 – 15:51 — cjackson At our soldering and sewing workshops, Judy Lee teaches kids how to move from concept to finished product in
Ink jet printed RAM on paper
Thu, 06/19/2014 – 16:02 — Robert McGrath Printable circuit fans: IEEE Spectrum reports on progress–non volatile RAM printed on paper! The report by Rachel Courtland
x.pose: Provocative "Wearable Sculpture" from NYU
Sun, 06/15/2014 – 11:38 — Robert McGrath An interesting ‘wearable scupture’ from NYU graduate project. This uses technology familiar to Fabbers, and could be recreated
Dancing with Drones
Thu, 05/29/2014 – 10:12 — Robert McGrath Drone fans: here’s a remarkable performance. Really cool. elevenplay dance performance with drones at Spiral Hall In the
Mink – print your own makeup
Fri, 05/09/2014 – 08:34 — Robert McGrath Yet another kind of “printing”–print your own makeup. From the presentation, this seems to be pretty far along
Instructables Project: Atomic Force Microscope (?!)
Tue, 04/29/2014 – 08:56 — Robert McGrath OK, here’s something I’ve always wanted, but never could have: an atomic force microscope! What would I do
Fab Lab Community BBQ!
Sun, 04/27/2014 – 04:04 — Geph Welcome in the spring with us at our annual community BBQ. This next Sunday, May 4th, the lab will
NOTICE! Special End of Semester Hours and Change in Summer Hours!
Thu, 04/24/2014 – 23:32 — bievenue We will add open lab hours on Friday afternoons (12pm-5pm) on May 2 and May 9 ONLY. Also,
IEEE Tocuh Synthesizer Workshop
Tue, 04/22/2014 – 11:16 — Geph IEEE students are putting on a Touch Synthesizer workshop this week: 6-8pm WED Apr 23 SIEBL 1105 3-5pm SAT
Volunteer Workshop this Sunday @ 3p!
Mon, 04/21/2014 – 15:57 — Geph Jeff, Virginia and Bob will be presenting a short workshop on some neat things you can do with Inkscape
Fab Lab @ Boneyard Arts Festival 2014
Mon, 04/07/2014 – 14:55 — Geph Come visit the Fab Lab this Thursday for our participation in the Boneyard Arts Festival! The lab will be
The Lulzbot 3D printer is working!
Sun, 04/06/2014 – 23:34 — Geph Within 2 short hours Andrew Wesly and I got the Lulzbot TAZ 3D printer working! We’re excited to add
FabLab Featured in Smile Politely Magazine
Sun, 04/06/2014 – 14:56 — cjackson Judy Lee, a local graphic designer and maker, dropped by last week to see the FabLab for the first
We have a 3Doodler.
Sun, 03/30/2014 – 22:37 — onechrisn The Fablab now has a 3D pen. It’s good at making tangles of ABS in mid-air! Come try it
New Hours!
Sun, 03/30/2014 – 14:37 — Geph The Fab Lab is extending its open hours to time during the day! The new hours start April 1st:
MFA Exhibition – Featuring Art Made at the Fab Lab!
Sun, 03/30/2014 – 14:21 — Geph Go check out the annual exhibition of artwork from the metals department! Many of the featured projects made use
NYT Article About Shapeways
Thu, 03/27/2014 – 15:52 — Robert McGrath Interesting article in the NYT about Shapeways and creative designers who have been able to realize ideas because
Fab Lab Wins a Lulzbot TAZ 3D printer!
Mon, 03/24/2014 – 12:50 — Geph The Fab Lab has won a Lulzbot TAZ 3D printer! Yes, that’s an update – we thought it was
Science Olympiad needs volunteers
Mon, 03/17/2014 – 07:48 — Robert McGrath I’m forwarding this email from UI OPE: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hosting the Illinois Science
'Instructables' Project: DIY Segway
Sun, 03/16/2014 – 15:56 — Robert McGrath Instructables has a cool project posted by ‘ihart‘: A DIY ‘segway’ scooter: http://www.instructables.com/id/Rideable-Segway-Clone-Low-Cost-and-Easy-… Anyone want to try to
‘Instructables’ Project: DIY Segway
Sun, 03/16/2014 – 15:56 — Robert McGrath Instructables has a cool project posted by ‘ihart‘: A DIY ‘segway’ scooter: http://www.instructables.com/id/Rideable-Segway-Clone-Low-Cost-and-Easy-… Anyone want to try to
Victor Ekpuk visit the Fab Lab!
Sun, 03/16/2014 – 15:42 — Geph Victor Ekpuk came to visit us the Fab Lab today! He cut out some original art on the laser.
Fab Lab @ EOH Today!
Fri, 03/14/2014 – 02:54 — Geph Just a reminder that the Fab Lab will have a booth out at Engineering Open House today, just outside
Intel Design Contest for Wearable Computing Idea
Thu, 03/06/2014 – 09:21 — Robert McGrath Anyone interested in wearable computing? Have you got great ideas you want to try to build? Maybe you
Hardware Freedom Day '14 @ Makerspace Urbana
Wed, 03/05/2014 – 21:49 — Geph Learn how to make an Arduino robot: https://www.facebook.com/events/482073611914451/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Hardware Freedom Day ’14 @ Makerspace Urbana
Wed, 03/05/2014 – 21:49 — Geph Learn how to make an Arduino robot: https://www.facebook.com/events/482073611914451/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular
Need a job? Work with us!
Tue, 03/04/2014 – 22:28 — Geph That’s right, we’ve been booming lately and are happy to see such interest in the lab, but we need
CUDO Plays and the CU Community Fab Lab
Wed, 02/26/2014 – 21:16 — onechrisn CUDO, the Champaign Urbana Design Organization, hosted a board game creation competition called CUDO Plays. The competition started back
Minecraft Tutorials!
Sat, 02/22/2014 – 03:41 — Geph A giant tutorial for using Minecraft to teach all kinds of fab lab concepts and digital literacies (3D modeling
Operations Meeting 02.23.2014
Fri, 02/21/2014 – 19:18 — Geph Just a reminder that we’re having an operations meeting this upcoming Sunday at 2:00p in the break room at