For class this week we met at the FabLab. The FabLab is a community fabrication lab and makerspace that is full of tools and making equipment. Pretty much anything you want to make can be done at the FabLab, which is so cool! The FabLab is a network of labs across the world that give making access to the community. It’s very cool that we have one on campus. We begun class with a tour of the lab, seeing all that they have to offer. They showed us cool projects people had done there before, and told us about all the possibilities there are to make anything we can think of.
We then split the class in half to start on a project of making a wearable for people to use during rehab or weightlifting to ensure proper form. It is a cool idea! My half of the class learned about circuits and how you can use a bread board and jumper cables to light up an LED. Normally I find physics to be very confusing, but the FabLab team did such a good job of breaking it down to make it easy for us to understand.
Then we got with our groups and did some rapid brainstorming for our project. It was an interesting way to brainstorm. We had 30 seconds with each idea, and then we would move on to the next. It was helpful to get prompts to help the brainstorm move along. I’m excited to keep ideating and begin making models to find our solution!
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