June 30, 2011

• The FabFi project:
  
     http://fabfi.fablab.af/
  
  was the front page picture in a New York Times story:
  
     http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html
  
  on grass-roots Internet access. CBA also appeared in a New York Times story on the maker movement:
  
     http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/magazine/the-kitchen-table-industrialists.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
  
  
• The MTM Snap machine:
  
     http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/31/mtm-snap-project-lets-you-build-your-own-cnc-machine-so-you-can/
  
  from CBA's Machines That Make project:
  
     http://mtm.cba.mit.edu/
  
  was featured at Maker Faire:
  
     http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2011/
  
  along with a presentation on the future of fabrication:
  
     http://fora.tv/2011/05/21/Neil_Gershenfeld_The_Future_of_Fabrication
  
  A number of CBA collaborators then participated in Autodesk's IDEAS Innovations + Design Series:
  
     http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=16712078
  


• One of our students, Sarah Hovsepian, has been selected as a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow, with a proposal on Lifecycle Reusable Functional Digital Materials. Congratulations, Sarah.
  
  
• A CBA team opened the most recent fab lab in a spectacular new permanent setting at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts:
  
     http://www.haystack-mtn.org/FabLab.php
  
  with a focus on bridging traditional crafts with modern technology:
  
     http://bangordailynews.com/2011/06/16/living/traditional-crafts-meld-with-futuristic-technology/
  
  
• Speaking of bridging, Prof. Gershenfeld will present CBA research on connecting computer science with physical science at the International Conference on Complex Systems:
  
     http://necsi.edu/wiki/index.php/ICCS11
  
  
• Sherry Lassiter represented CBA at an ICT in Education Summit hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank in Haiti:
     http://events.iadb.org/calendar/eventDetail.aspx?lang=en&id=2888
  
  Plans for fab labs there to help with reconstruction and development are likely to follow.
  
  
• FAB7, the Seventh International Fab Lab Forum and Symposium on Digital Fabrication is happening August 15-20 in Lima, Peru.  Workshop and accommodation space is filling quickly:
  
     http://fab7.pe
  
  Register now if you'd like to participate. We're seeking individual sponsorships for travel costs to help a number of unfunded fab-labbers to attend from developing countries -- please contact us if you might be interested in supporting a traveler.
  

This is an occasional newsletter on the activities of CBA and its partners; to be added or removed from this list, or to submit items, please contact CBA's Program Manager Sherry Lassiter <sherry.lassiter@cba.mit.edu>.