STUDENT PROJECTS

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Sun, 12/14/2014 – 16:46 — Geph We will be closed for Winter Break for several days!

Sat, 12/06/2014 – 15:04 — onechrisn

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tue, 07/15/2014 – 10:00 — Geph http://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-b-broadcom-pinout,27248.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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