Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Fab in a box at 3D experience”.
All right I’ve been walking around checking out this cool stuff over here and I’d love to know more about it. So if you could tell me who are you who you with and what did you bring to the the uh Doo systems? 3D experience Expo thingy. Absolutely so I am Claire Dorset. I am the director of stem programming for Fab Foundation.
Fab Foundation is the nonprofit branch of MIT Center for bits and Adams, and so we’re focused on education and Outreach around digital fabrication. So today we brought the Fab in a box project and we supported 2700 Fab labs in about 131 countries, but a lot of those are hundreds of thousands of dollars, or even a million dollars or more. This is the other end of the scale, so we’re looking at providing everything that you see on this part for as close to $ 10,000 as possible, and it’s a turnkey Fab Lab starter kit. So you end up with a 40 W diode laser the smoke purification system to make that safe to run on the par and enclosed 3 printer for environmental health and safety. A vinyl cutter, an Electronics kit that you can use to actuate the things that you’re making on the card itself. It comes with a control computer preloaded with a software that you need to run these machines as well as X, design and the curriculum that Educators would need in order to learn how to use these machines comfortably themselves and activities that they can run with their Learners.
And today we’re doing things like cutting uh little fidget Spinners on our laser cutter that you can just do a press fot with some bearings and some nuts, it’s nice little takeaway. Oh, that is so cool. So I’m sure this has gone through like lots of iterations and Design like how long have you guys been working on this project and and how many different design iterations do you think it’s gone through roughly absolutely so.
The idea for the project has been around for about 10 years and it’s taken different forms, including things that are more like uh one machine that does everything that could fit into a suitcase. So this is really responding to the want for safety and warranties in classroom settings and educational settings, so we’re providing off the-shelf machines, but with that sort of TurnKey kit with that custom cart, it rolls it’s on lock. We have handles on it to make it easy. It is fully enclosable version two of the cart.
This top will actually come off and become a work surface next to it, and that gives you better access to the backs of the machines, as well as some more services to pull out this final cutter, for example. So let’s say there somebody watching they’re, an educator or or something like that. They want to know more about this specific project. Where can they learn more? Absolutely, they should go to Fab foundation.org.
They can also check out this QR code and it’ll. Take you to the website for this project, specifically all right, let’s zoom in on that QR code, just in case they can scan that and there we go very cool. Thank you so much for telling us about this project. Bye, .
