Fab Pro Trainee2
Let me note here what happened in Fab Pro Trainee @ Willich (10 -19 Nov 2015).
Week1: 2D and 2,5D (Trainee Alex Schaub) -Introduction of table design, open source design and illustrator -Design of a new conference table in illustrator -Building 1/6 maquette of table by laser cutter some links: Open source font design http://www.1001fonts.com/ Open design source 50 digital wood joints http://www.flexiblestream.org/project/50-digital-wood-joints
Electronics (Trainee Zaerc Kok) - Build your own electric socket (see photograph) - Programming with help of Zaerc
Week2: 3D (Trainee Veit Penzenstadler, Alex Schaub) - Introduction and practice of Rhino 3D (Drew Frisbee) - Import and drawing their 2D table design into 3D by Rhino 3d.
Advanced practise (Trainee Lukas Plioska, Fablab Willich) - Build Ultimaker (Lucky people!) - Build DIY 3D scanner - Introduction of milling machine and cutting bird shape from 1st week. - Cut 3D mountain shape by milling machine (not finished yet) - Practice Vinyl cutter - Practice Laser cutter - Engraving on glass
Presentation of table and final wrapping up. -End of each day with 10 participants, I did the wrapping up of the day by their feedback and face drawing. It helps us to see what they miss from this trainee course and how to adjust the week schedule (see photograph) - Plan to share all files from Fab pro @ internal online site my.saint gobain.com - Several lectures given by Fablab Willich to introduce how they can benefit from Fablab.
(*1)2 points Fab Pro was improved on during the training - Give more theory and examples to understand new techniques - Gain more support from trainees of Willich Done!
I should not forget to add here that I was given a great tour of Saint Gobain Willich. They have a completely sustainable system for production starting from the engineering design, making each parts in production, material making (pdfe), production, until delivery to the client. How could fablab fit within this engineering field?