Goals
I wanted to take the Fab Academy because I believe FabLabs can have a large role in education. I have been working
over the past year integrating a FabLab into our school. FabLabs can be used to support existing classwork, encourage
new projects, or to empower students to find their own learning endeavor. I want to be a part of figuring all of that out.
My Goals:
Learn how to network better.
Learn to better facilitate turning ideas into prototypes.
Develop more opportunities to interact with other people who enjoy this work.
Final Project
When choosing a final project, I narrowed down my ideas to meet the following criteria:
I want to use it in our FabLab as an example of various FabLab techniques.
I want the project to be a CNC device built
I want a project that helps me tell the story of why this education is important.
I want something that people can interact with but still have a pupose.
I am going to build a FabLab vending machine. The vending machine will allow users to check out(and return) tools in the lab.
Update: As the class progressed, I stayed with the same basic idea,
but I wanted to concentrate more on the sensors than the machine. The project morphed to being a shelf
which detects users and can be expanded with more features.
