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Fablab Project Documentation
Open Knowledge Festival 19.9.2012
Anu Määttä / @narnua@AaltoFablab
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http://tiny.cc/okconpaper
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Why?
● Experts of Open Knowledge gathered ● Recap Fablab documentation issues so far ● Invitation for discussion (and hacking?)
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OUTLINE
● FABLAB NETWORK● NOW● PROBLEMS● SOLUTIONS?● GOAL● DISCUSSION● INVITATION
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What is a Fablab?
● Started by MIT Center for Bits and Atoms
● Book: Fab – the coming revolution on your desktop by Neil Gerschenfeld
● Open access workspace
● Standard inventory of digital manufacturing machines
● Principle: make here → make anywhere
● Free (as in beer ;) to use – at least part of the time, for everyone
● Fab charter: as long as you share (what was made and knowledge on
working with the machines)
Helsingin Sanomat 18.9.2012: http://tiny.cc/hesari
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Network of labs
http://wiki.fablab.is/wiki/Portal:Labs
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NOW
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Example: Check-in, check-out (ProtoSpace Fablab Utrecht)
● “automatic documentation”
● Part of lab visit workflow
● Check in, check out:
http://fablab.nl/articles/2011/04/12/
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Example: FabPublications(Fablab Amersfoort)
● Drupal 7-based template for facilitating documentation
● “Document or pay”
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Example: Hosted sites(Fablab Amsterdam, Waag society)
● Hosted instances of Fablab Amsterdam website● Small payment● Not offered
as open source
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Examples: MIT
● Version control: Mercurial● FabAcademy 2012 commits visualized
http://vimeo.com/47110711 (@openp2pdesign)
● Instructables
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Examples: Other Maker Communities
● Thingiverse● Instructables● GitHub
● imaterialize, Ponoko, Tinkercad, ...
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PROBLEMS
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Practical solutions for Fablabs
● Version control systems are too heavy (for workaday lab users)
● ...and not necessarily the easiest way to digest “making of” information
● Lab staff generally too busy to assist with documentation
● Diverse culture● Adverse to centralization
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Why Not Instructables?
● Thriving community of makers but... ● Fablab machines are being opened up,
documentation closed down● Outside, also commercial interests● Not open, hackable, available to install on your
own web server● Localization (Finnish? Dutch? Swahili?) ● Windows vs. Linux, Facebook vs. Diaspora
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SOLUTIONS?
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Centralize?
● One size fits all● Let me do that for you != DIY
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Distribute?
● What we are doing (and being) anyway● Managing diversity● = Open Knowledge
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GOAL
● Project sharing between Fablabs!● Collaborative development (of physical objects,
à la open source software) ● I want to find what you made, and share with
you what I made ● “Glue” to put all the pieces together ● “Easy as Apple,
Open as Linux, Widespread as Windows”
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(my) Visions
Open hardware + open software =>
● Machines that Document
● Machines are smart, people are lazy
● Relaying the making-of contextual information to assist with documentation
– Eye-Fi-camera, timestamps, files used, machine settings...
● Open Source Objects
● Retrievable “source code” of physical objectsprotospace.nl/fabmoment/open-source-objects
● Made near you
● Layar.com/protospacegallery
● Also: “What our lasercutter made today”
● FabML
● Simple XML definition to describe projects
● To enable sharing between platforms
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DISCUSSION
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INVITATION
● When: Friday September 21st, 16.00-18.30● Where: Aalto Media Factory room 1
● Planned: winter/spring hackathon