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Smart Citizen Barcelona Relaunching

admin — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:09:03 +0000

IAAC|Fab Lab Barcelona is pleased to announce the Smart Citizen Open Thursdays cycle.

The cycle will start next Thursday, November 13th, marking the beginning of a series of regular meetings of the SmartCitizen community.

These meetings will take place at Hangar and will be open for both users and the general audience interested in the SmartCitizen movement.

Open Thursdays will offer workshops and lectures on the different technologies, sensors and software used, as well as discussion forums, working groups and troubleshooting.

Where: at Hangar, c/Emilia Coranty 16, 08018 Barcelona, Spain.

When: every thursday from 19.00 hours.

In this first opening session, the Project’s Founders will present the Smart Citizen project, as well as explaining the hardware and technology used for the project’s development.

Join us!

FLY VALLDAURA // OPEN SOURCE DRONE WORKSHOP

admin — Fri, 09 May 2014 17:48:42 +0000

IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona with Flone present Fly Valldaura, a workshop towards the design and fabrication of Open source Drones.

PROGRAM

Engage in a workshop to build a Flone-Drone from a kit of parts. Learning to solder the components, assemble the frame as well as to program the circuit boards.

The group workshop is an intensive 4 days situated in the 140 hectares at Valldaura Labs. Participants will stay at Valldaura with the option of accommodation, food and drone kit included.

The 4 day workshop will also include drone – fu piloting practise as well as a number of lectures and mapping exercises. Participants will take home their own flone- drone and will receive the mapping data that we generate during the event. Both individuals and Groups welcome.

WORKSHOP CONTENT

- Tour of the site.

- Presentations drones Use / History / Future

- Film involving drones

- Mapping, scanning data sharing

- Open Discussion

PRICES

€550 - FLONE MAKER

FLONE KIT + TUITION + ACCOMMODATION

Add anther team member for €300

€350 - TRAVELLER

FLONE KIT + TUITION

Add another team member for €100

SCHEDULE

Saturday 31 _ 05 _2014

Tuesday 03 _ 06 _ 2014

Day 1 - CONSTRUCTION KIT

Day 2 - ELECTRONICS

Day 3 - PILOTING CLASSES

Day 4 - WHAT IF DRONES … ?

CONTACT

info@fablabbcn.org

jonathan@fablabbcn.org

REGISTER

valldaura-events.fikket.com

Viernes 28 de febrero: MASSIMO BANZI – sourcing innovación abierta

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 00:04:01 +0000

Friday 28th of February 2014
Massimo Banzi
Lecture: Open sourcing innovation.

@ 19.30, IAAC Auditorium
Open to the Public

MASSIMO BANZI

Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of the Arduino project. He is an Interaction Designer, Educator and Open Source Hardware advocate. He has worked as a consultant for clients such as: Prada, Artemide, Whirlpool, V&A Museum and Adidas.

Massimo started the first FabLab in Italy which led to the creation of Officine Arduino, a FabLab/Makerspace based in Torino.

He spent 4 years at the Interaction Design Institue Ivrea as Associate Professor. Massimo has taught workshops and has been a guest speaker at institutions allover the world.

Before joining IDII he was CTO for the Seat Ventures incubator. He spent many years working as a software architect,both in Milan and London, on projects for clients like Italia Online, Sapient, Labour Party, BT, MCI WorldCom, SmithKlineBeecham, Storagetek, BSkyB and boo.com.

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