fabLAB Asturias
fabLAB Asturias is one of the labs integrated in the global network of fab labs, among other workshops that research on digital manufacturing using computer-controlled machines to manufacture physical objects from digital designs, as well as projecting and creating electronic tools and devices.
Fab Labs were originally an initiative by the Center for Bits and Atoms of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) aimed at facilitating access to these new means of research, creation and production. The global network of Fab Labs connects more than 100 labs located in 30 countries in order to share documentation, projects and experiences, thus building one of the world’s largest network of distributed knowledge, which grows exponentially with the creation of new labs at a surprising pace.
fabLAB Asturias, located within the Production Centre Plataforma 0 of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, offers a unique creative environment in the network of Fab Labs due to its relationship between art and new technologies, which is the hallmark of the Centre since its creation, based on the relationship between the artistic arena and cultural industries, ICTs and the educational institutions related with the line of work of the Art Centre.
fabLAB Asturias is a centre for the research on the creative applications of digital manufacturing, but also an important educational resource and a node aimed at building a community that fosters the cultural and economic development of its environment.
In the field of research, fabLAB Asturias works on its own projects aimed at finding applications of digital manufacturing for artistic and industrial creation, designing devices and tools and making them available to the public following the open source philosophy.
As an educational resource, fabLAB Asturias follows the experience of LABoral Centro de Arte and offers resources to local educational institutions, and also to individuals, by means of courses, workshops or collaboration programmes. These activities, on the one hand, offer the knowledge and the access to techniques of digital design and manufacturing and, on the other hand, support creativity and open new lines of work regarding training and education. In addition, fabLAB Asturias, by sharing the results and documentation of its research and projects, becomes a public repository of information that can inspire the same processes in its local and global environment.
Moreover, fabLAB Asturias is intended to be a work resource that can connect creators, firms and educators in lab processes, by means of residency programmes, internships, collaborations and shared research projects. In addition, it also offers resources open to the public by means of open house days and a membership programme that provides access to use the machines for one’s own projects.
Open doors at fabLAB Asturias
Every Thursday afternoon, LABoral offres artists and creators the possibility of knowing ...
Introduction course to the use of a fabLAB
Initiation to the most advanced design and digital fabrication processes
Introduction to use of fabLAB. 7th. edition
The course gives an introduction to advanced integrated digital design and manufacturing ...
Workshop: Aeromodelling and digital fabrication. 2nd. Edition
Building model aeroplanes using digital fabrication techniques.
Workshop. Introduction to Arduino
Introduction to experimental electronics using Arduino
Learning through design. AuLAB 2014-15
Susanna Tesconi develops this programme, part of AuLAB, innovation programme in ...
Introduction to programming and Raspberry Pi
Learn programming basics using Raspberry Pi and Python
Workshop: building multicopters using digital fabrication and experimental electronics. 3rd. Edition
Maiden make: aeromodelling for children. 3nd Edition
Building model aeroplanes using digital fabrication techniques.
Introduction to use of fabLAB. 6th. edition
The course gives an introduction to advanced integrated digital design and manufacturing ...
Workshop: building multicopters using digital fabrication and experimental electronics. 2nd Edition
Workshop: RepRap building
RepRap project: set up, calibrate and build 3D printers.
Workshop: building multicopters using digital fabrication and experimental electronics
Charging bateries.
Building model aeroplanes using digital fabrication techniques.
AuLAB 2013-14
School programme 2013-14 in collaboration with the Directorate General for Professional ...
Learning through Design
Susanna Tesconi teaches this programme, part of AuLAB, set in motion in collaboration ...
Introduction to programming
Luís Díaz teaches this programme, part of AuLAB, set in motion in collaboration with ...
Workshop: Aeromodelling and digital fabrication
Building model aeroplanes using digital fabrication techniques.
Introduction to 3D design for digital fabrication
This course introduces participants in design and production techniques used at fab labs.
3D printers as pedagogic tools. In collaboration with C.P. Lloreu
The knowledge and use of open source machines as educational resources foster a critical ...