What’s the one type of transport you can find in any part of the world? A bike? That’s right. Now Foondi  Workshops is rethinking how we can use bicycles in emerging markets where access to reliable and affordable energy remains out a reach for thousands of people. Foondi held a hands-on design workshop on building a… Read more »

I finally got around to making Brogan’s cool box. And I got it together only braking one bit. The first picture shows the box starting to go together.   The second photo shows the clip piece, and my one hint is to squeeze the sides before tying to put them into the assembly.   The… Read more »

Hi Fellows, I know that you are all in various states of completion of your guides, along with various states of finishing up your school years. What I’d like to propose we do next on the resource guides is to attempt to have a conversation about next steps. Since the blog post notification is working,… Read more »

In a week I’ll be presenting, together with L. Arias a short paper at Fablearn Europe.  This is an extract I like to share with you Fellows. Abstract In this paper, we describe an ongoing education programme promoted by LABoral Art Centre that uses digital fabrication and ¨making¨ in order to produce methodological change in… Read more »

Here at Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn, we have been developing a new physical programming activity called “Machines Gone Wild!” that helps our youth learn about mechanical engineering with mechanisms and physical programming with Arduinos. So many of our youth “think with their hands” while building and last year we found that none of… Read more »

Hi FabLearn Folks! I went through the resource guides this weekend and made a few comments. I see that many of you have adopted the “overview” page so I tried to make most of my comments on those pages. For some of you, there is still no place to start, we have a collection of… Read more »

At Learn 2 Teach, Teach 2 Learn, one of the activities youth teachers take out to Boston community organizations each year is Squishy Circuits.  This cool activity was originally developed by AnnMarie Thomas at University of St. Thomas School of Engineering in St. Paul, Minnesota (http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/apthomas/SquishyCircuits/). Like many maker educators, we wanted to get better… Read more »

This is a long piece with photos that can be accessed at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UMdcVPeHUJeWV4YVg0MlVQeGM/edit?usp=sh…

Hope you enjoyed your 3-day weekend! First, I just wanted to say how impressed we all are with the phenomenal work you’ve all done on the resource guides! I’m really enjoying looking through them and will soon add comments and feedback. I just wanted to send a quick reminder about upcoming dates: May 29, 9… Read more »

Hi Fellows – I’m seeing a lot of work on the resource guides – and I’m looking forward to spending some time looking at them. I hope you are too! This week I’m happy to meet with people on an ad hoc basis or just respond to email. I’ll just schedule one webinar on Friday,… Read more »