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Machinic Conversations II

By admin | Published: March 4, 2013

During this 4 days workshop, students from the Fabrication Ecologies research line of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 were able to develop and test a new fabrication protocol deploying Hemp fibres by means of an industrial robot. Through the production of a 1:1 scale prototype, the 4 teams explored the design opportunities arising from [...]

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Machinic Conversations I: Hacking an industrial 6axis robot

By admin | Published: February 8, 2013

The first design assignment for the students of the Master in Advanced Architecture 2013 was to develop and test communication protocols to control and manipulate the behavior of a large industrial robot. Since 6-axis machines such as the one in the IAAC Fab Lab are directly inherited from the mass production of cars and other industrial products, [...]

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MAI Physical Computing workshop – Final Presentation

By admin | Published: January 28, 2013

Friday January 26th, Master in Advanced Interaction students presented the final projects of the Physical Computing workshop that they have been developing during the 1st term. The project has been directed by Alex Posada. To see the projects click here.

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Open Thesis Fabrication Presentations to the collaborating companies

By iaac | Published: November 23, 2010

The students of the Open Thesis Fabrication presented their projects to some of the collaborating companies (Imar-represented by Patxi Rubin , Escofet – represented by Enric Pericas, KUKA-represented by Oscar Pérez) . The represenatives of the companies at the same time had a conversation with Marta Malé-Alemany about the next steps of  the collaboration of  the Open Thesis Fabrication program and the industries.

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Open Thesis Fabrication Visit at KUKA

By iaac | Published: October 20, 2010

The Open Thesis Fabrication group of students hade the opportunity to visit the facilities of KUKA in Spain and had a demonstration of the robots . Mr. Oscar Perez Aguado guided us and gave us a thorough understanting of the products of the company their applications and abilities.

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