Guatemalan architect with specialization in urban design and planning. Consultant for mobility and territorial planning for the initiative of emerging and sustainable cities of the Inter-American Development Bank ICES QUETZALTENANGO. ICES uses a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to identify, organize and prioritize urban interventions to address the main obstacles to sustainable growth in the emerging cities of Latin America and the Caribbean.
Founder and director of La Granja Fab Lab first lab in Guatemala, a digital fabrication laboratory based in Quetzaltenango, which It is dedicated to research and experimentation of social innovation projects to provide local solutions in context.
Professor of architecture and urbanism at CUNOC -Centro Universitario de Occidente-Recent Works.
Interested in participating in Fab LAT, and in the projects Fab City and Fab Kids
Jan/June, 2017
How to collect data through open source and accessible devices in Latin America? The purpose of the final project is to build a prototype with the ability to interact with the local environment and explore technologies available to cities in Central America, to relate technology and data with a kind of digital urbanism
January 25, 2017
Assignament: build a personal site in the class archive describing you and your final project, plan and sketch a potential final project
February 01, 2017
Assignment: model (raster, vector, 2D, 3D, render, animate, simulate, ...) a possible final project, and post it on your class page
February 08, 2017
Assignment: make lasercutter test part(s), varying cutting settings and slot dimensions; design, make, and document a parametric press-fit construction kit
February 15, 2017
Assignment: make an in-circuit programmer by milling the PCB, then optionally trying other processes. USB power, make clean, make hex (sudo), make fuse (check programmer in Makefile, may need to repeat), (sudo) make program, desolder SJ1 and SJ2, make IDC ISP cable, connecting header, pin 1 to pin 1, check wires
February 22, 2017
Assignament: test the design rules for your printer, design and 3D print an object that could not be made subtractively, 3D scan an object
March 01, 2017
Assignment: redraw the echo hello-world board,badd (at least) a button and LED (with current-limiting resistor) check the design rules, make it, and test it
March 08, 2017
Assignment: make something big. A CNC can increase the production and reduce the time, maintaining a high degree of precision
March 15, 2017
Assignment: read a microcontroller data sheet program your board to do something, with as many different programming languages and programming environments as possible
March 22, 2017
Assignment: design a machine (mechanism+automation), including the end effector, build the passive parts and operate it manually, document the group project and your individual contribution
March 29, 2017
Assignment: add an output device to a microcontroller board you've designed and program it to do something. Useful to learn to mill, solder and program a Fabkit, an Arduino-compatible board designed by David Mells and based on an ATMEGA382P microcontroller
April 05, 2017
Assignament: automate your machine; document the group project and your individual contribution
April 19, 2017
Assignment: design a 3D mold, machine it, and use it to cast parts. Fill the silicone mold with HydroStone to make the final piece positive
April 26, 2017
Assignment: measure something, add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it
May 03, 2017
Assignment: read the material safety data sheet (MSDS) and technical data sheet (TDS) for the resins that you're using design and fabricate a 3D mold (~ft2) and produce a fiber composite part in it
May 10, 2017
Assignament: design and build a wired &/or wireless network connecting at least two processors
May 17, 2017
Assignment: write an application that interfaces with an input &/or output device that you made, comparing as many tool options as possible
May 24, 2017
Assignment: propose a final project that integrates the range of units covered, answering: what will it do? who's done what beforehand? what materials and components will be required?
May 31, 2017
Assignment: develop a plan for dissemination of your final project prepare a summary slide (presentation.png, 1280x1024) and video clip (presentation.mp4, 1080p HTML5, < ~minute, < ~10 MB) in your root directory
June 07, 2017
Assignment: complete your final project, tracking your progress: what tasks have been completed, and what tasks remain? what has worked? what hasn't? what questions need to be resolved?