Imagine. Innovate. Invent.
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Join Fab Lab El Paso and create tech solutions for social change at Hactivate, Hackaday’s worldwide brainstorming session for the 2016 Hackaday Prize design concept challenge! Teams around the world will submit ideas for projects that leverage their hardware, coding, scientific, design and mechanical skills. Hackaday be picking the most spectacular design solutions to share on the Hackaday front page, and there will be prizes.
We are looking for team leaders and members for a variety of categories. These are some sample categories and projects below.
Please fill out the form! Feel free to shoot us an email, call, or stop by to discuss any ideas you may have.
Happy Hacking!
Our latest fun nerdy endeavor is afoot. A tweet printer! Tweet at #FabLabEP and follow us on Twitter @FabLabEP for a chance to
win a Raspberry Pi Zero.
“Raspberry Pi Zero, made in Wales and priced at just $5. Zero is a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family, featuring:
Raspberry Pi Zero runs Raspbian and all your favourite applications, including Scratch, Minecraft and Sonic Pi. It is available today in the UK from our friends at The Pi Hut and Pimoroni, and in the US from Adafruit and in-store at your local branch of Micro Center. We’ve built several tens of thousands of units so far, and are building more, but we expect demand to outstrip supply for the next little while.” (from RaspberryPi.org)
Fab Lab El Paso Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Gustavo Arriaga discusses what led him to the world of Open Sourcing and the infinite possibilities it has in store for the future. Through several storylines, Gus shares his insight about Fab Labs around the world, online collaboration and the future of Open Source applications.
Gus is a recovering Neurobiologist now exploring the wild world of digital fabrication. After receiving a Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Duke University and completing a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Tokyo he left the bench to return home and co-found the non-profit Fab Lab El Paso. As director of the Fab Lab he’s always seeking ways to leverage the power of open source design and distributed manufacturing to accelerate scientific discovery.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
The pentagonal lampshade by Michiel Cornelissen is kind of like flexible textile. ZooM is made up of hundreds of small, interlocking elements that join together to form spirals. The lamp is manufactured flat and assembled. You easily pull up on the center and the cone-like shade takes form. Pop in a simple cord and bulb socket and you have a functional lamp. Who doesn’t love flexible joints 3-D printed in place?
