Week 6 & 7 of internship @fabguru
Hello! It’s almost the end of the year and I am very pleased to announce that my Polygon shape is completed! It all started with an egg shape and I had to figure out how to fix it into a football shape. In the end, I built too many polygon parts than it actually needed. But YES , I am very happy to have done it. I discovered that play wood was not strong enough for torn structure therefore I re-made a file for 3mm thick acrylic. Above you can see some pictures with my excitement and satisfaction! (Too many of them? Never mind :-) !!)
For a creative space, FabGuru did first a Room Design followed by a table design and a visual inventory of all tools usually hidden in stupid drawers.
- The idea within a fablab should be that any tool can easily be reached when you need them!”- And the current situation is not an ideal! So we pulled all of them out from the drawers to visualise what the Lab has. All very good (but very expensive!) tools and some of them are available 4 times. But a FabLab coordinator got crazy when he saw them all on the floor so we had to put all of them back to the drawers.
Guru is working on the table design for fablab Willich. We finally got material (40mm thickness) but it was not what he ordered! So he had to re-design a table before we cut all wood. Unfortunately we did not manage to see a table in the lab before the end of the year. But it’s like kicking off a new lab and that takes always time. Before you have your ideal lab, it’s a long way.
And yes, there is some news about a new customer for the FabLab. Ingrid from reception came for a new design of their birthday cards given to the employees (350 people) from Saint-Gobain. What she brought was very very simple, traditional and even ugly. We had a 3 hours session spread over two days. It has to be special but also it need to be affordable in production time as well as in design. In the end, we made two designs (man-woman) of key holders with the name of the employee. It will start as of New Year. Let’s see if the people who received it, will notice that it’s coming from our FabLab.
