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GSS2014 The Next City // day 1

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:53:39 +0000

The 2014 Global Summer School on the Next City kicked off today. The morning session in Barcelona was opened with a tour of the Fab Lab Barcelona with Luis Fraguada, showing the diverse machines,and explaining and demonstrating how they function.

We then moved to the Auditorium where the St Petersburg location joined us in streaming for the IAAC Dean Manuel Gausa’s welcome words, as well as an introductory lecture by Luis, discussing what Advanced Architecture is, and what are its potentials towards the Next City. All the students and staff then presented themselves in a few short words.

After lunch, the group went to tour the Next City site in Torre Baró, where the workshop project will be implemented.

IaaC at the Pecha Kucha Barcelona

iaac — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:00:23 +0000

With its events happening in hundreds of cities around the world, inspiring creatives worldwide, PechaKucha Night (a japanese term for the sound of “chit chat” night) in Barcelona which was on the 18th of june has been presented by IaaC co-director Marta Malé-Alemany, where she presented the the IaaC Masters studio FabBots and the exhibition at the Design Hub museum of Barcelona which is currently showing the same works with lots of other prototypes of digitally fabricated elements and systems. More of the Pecha Kucha event can be found at www.pechakuchabarcelona.org. Works and schedules of the Disseny Hub of Barcelona can be found at www.dhub-bcn.cat

Master Project Theme I-Eco-Machinic Apparatus

iaac — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:46:40 +0000

With the last class of Masters Thesis I – the eco-machinic experiments are continuing, with only four days left for presentations, students are now working on their booklet, videos and panels where they present the series of works through out their project period. With Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero as tutors of the course, they gave students guidance on how to finish with their experimentations.

Master Project Theme IV: Contextualizing Digital fabrication

iaac — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:09:57 +0000

Each student can further their fab-bots in a certain way, now there are variations in the robots, some students are developing their projects through computation and potential outcomes, while others are researching on the fabrication techniques and how to add systems to have it fabricating different prototypes. There are also others with Vernacular research interests where their robots will be sited in. Students discussed these ideas with team Olaf Gipser and Faculty Marta Malé-Alemany, on how to develop their projects.

FabLab Barcelona

iaac — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:40:59 +0000

The Fab Lab program is part of the MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) which broadly explores how the content of information relates to its physical representation, fab.cba.mit.edu.

FabLab Barcelona is part of the FabLab central where students from Peru, Ethiopia, Italy and Spain are learning. With the future FabLabs under formation in both Ethiopia and Peru, students are taking courses from the MIT program, ‘How to make almost anything’. This includes projects from design tools (laser cutter, CNC miller, 3d scanner and printer ) to PCB design, microcontroller programming, Networking and communications and machine design. There have also been taking various workshops like the Fabfi workshop where the goals are to create simple, low cost and easy to create antennas,more information at fabfiblog.fabfolk.com.

Proceeding with their biweekly assignments students are also preparing for their final projects, where each one is now developing his/her final thesis project which will be presented by the end of the academic year. More of students projects can be found at fabacademy blog or fabacademy labs.

FabLab barcelona is also in the fabrication and assembly of the Solar House Fabrication as well as with other projects involved in the IaaC MAA program. More of fablab Barcelona can found at www.fablabbcn.org.

RSIII. Digital Tectonics (FAB)BOTS

iaac — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:56:31 +0000

With finals coming up soon student groups are currently working on their Fabbots, to achieve their aspired research avenue. Swarm robots, weaving machines, Sand casting and molding, Solar driven fabrication techniques are a few of the types currently being developed. Students have been working and consulting with faculty Marta Malé-Alemany , Victor Viña and assistant Cesar Cruz cazares, to develop with these projects.

FabLab Barcelona – ShopBot (assembly and installation)

iaac — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 14:32:48 +0000

Machine design – part of the biweek assignment at the FabAcademy, helps students study how to assemble machines and see how they are wired, programmed and how it works. This also includes the current assembly of the ShopBot at the FabLab by the FabLab team, This robotic machine is highly calibrated to be a faster, easier and able to produce bigger materials. It has an automatic tool changer which reduces the time a project must remain on the machine by automatically changing, cutting bits between cuts, thus eliminating the need for the CNC operator to change and calibrate tools by hand. More machines will be assembled through out the week.

Interactive systems

Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:43:11 +0000

1. Stepper motor receives rotate command from laptop. This movement triggers piezo sensor1 which activates machine2.
2. The motion produced by machine2 activates piezo sensor2 which activates machine3.
3. Machine3 randomly roves and draws.

SCRIPT CODE

#include

// change the steps variable to the number of steps on your motor
int steps = 100;
int switchPin = 9;
int chipPin1 = 10;
int chipPin2 = 11;
int dollPin1 = 8;
int dollPin2 = 12;
int piezoPin1 = 5;
int piezoPin2 = 4;

// create and attaches a stepper motor
// with 100 steps to pins 0, 1, 2 and 3

Stepper stepper(steps, 14,15,16,17);

void setup()
{
pinMode(switchPin,INPUT);
digitalWrite(switchPin,HIGH);
// set the speed of the motor to 20 rpms
stepper.setSpeed(50);
stepper.step(50);
pinMode(dollPin1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(dollPin2, OUTPUT);
pinMode(chipPin1, OUTPUT);
pinMode(chipPin2, OUTPUT);
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println(”hello world”);

}

void loop()
{
Serial.println(analogRead(piezoPin1));
if (analogRead(piezoPin1) > 1) {
for (int i=0;i<50;i++) {
digitalWrite(dollPin1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, LOW);
delay(50);
digitalWrite(dollPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, HIGH);
delay(200);
digitalWrite(dollPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, LOW);
}
Serial.println(analogRead(piezoPin2));
}
if (analogRead(piezoPin2) > 2) {
for (int i=0;i<5;i++) {
digitalWrite(chipPin1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, LOW);
delay(500);
digitalWrite(chipPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, HIGH);
delay(500);
digitalWrite(chipPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, LOW);
}
}
if (Serial.available() > 0) {
int dataIn = Serial.read();
switch(dataIn) {
case(49): // number 1
stepper.step(50);
break;
case(50):
stepper.step(-50);
break;
case(51):
stepper.step(50);
break;
case(52):
stepper.step(-50);
break;
case(53):
stepper.step(-10);
break;
case(54):
for (int i=0;i<10;i++) {
digitalWrite(dollPin1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, LOW);
delay(random(50));
digitalWrite(dollPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, HIGH);
delay(random(50));
digitalWrite(dollPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, LOW);
}
break;
case(55):
for (int i=0;i<10;i++) {
digitalWrite(chipPin1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, LOW);
delay(random(100));
digitalWrite(chipPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, HIGH);
delay(random(100));
digitalWrite(chipPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, LOW);
}
break;
}
}

delay(100);
/*
if (digitalRead(switchPin) == HIGH) {
// move 20 steps forward
stepper.step(50);
}
else {
stepper.step(-50);
}
{
digitalWrite(dollPin1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, LOW);
delay(2000);
digitalWrite(dollPin1, LOW);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, HIGH);
delay(2000);
digitalWrite(dollPin1, HIGH);
digitalWrite(dollPin2, LOW);
delay(2000);
}
digitalWrite(chipPin1, HIGH);
delay(5000);
digitalWrite(chipPin2, LOW);
delay(10000);
*/
}