By: Cam Ruffle-Deignan Everyday thousands of people around the world sustain injuries that require a cast or brace to stabilize their fracture/ sprain and promote healing. Traditionally these casts were made of fiberglass, which is fairly light weight, but can be very abrasive and called for a set of thick […]
BTV Innovation Week Kickoff
UVM INNOVATES Stories of Innovation from UVM Entrepreneurs October 17, 2016 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Davis Center, Livak Ballroom UVM is proudly kicking off Burlington’s first Innovation Week (October 17–20), an event showcasing the vibrant greater Burlington ecosystem of innovation, design, and technology. This event is sponsored by the […]
Composer Tod Machover at UVM
All events take place in the UVM Recital Hall. Free and open to the public. “Petting Zoo” Thursday, October 13 4:00 – 5:30 PM Hyperinstruments up close: explore the instruments and set-up with Machover and his assistants. “Robotic Operas, City Symphonies, and Beyond” Friday, October 14 Talk at 2:30 PM […]
Upcoming Outreach Events
Higher Ed and the Week of Making June 17-23, 2016 Make Schools GIV Engineering Institute July 10 – 16, 2016 Governor’s Institute of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, UVM Maker Places Conference August 7-9, 2016 CMF Inc Champlain Maker Faire September 24 & 25, 2016 […]
Zeus brings the fax machine into the 21st century
Meet the FabLab’s newest guest, Zeus. (Professor Frolik is letting us borrow it). Zeus, produced by AIO Robotics, is a combination 3D scanner, printer, copier and fax machine. The print resolution is comparable (if a bit coarser) to that of our makerbots, but the real innovation of this machine is the integrated […]
Meshmixer – A First Look
Autodesk is well know for offering a wide variety of CAD software, such as AutoCAD or the new Fusion360. But just recently the FabLab made good use of Meshmixer, the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ for 3D meshes. The software allows manipulating meshes in a more user-friendly way. It is possible to […]
Bamboo Fashion in the FabLab: 3D Printed Molds Mimic Bamboo
Bamboo is an appealing material for many purposes and worldwide because it is reliable, inexpensive and grows rapidly in varied conditions. As a 2015 Barrett Scholar undergraduate Civil Engineering major Sara Dorr created unique molds using the FabLab’s 3d printers that mimic the internal patterns bamboo fiber. These molds provided opportunities to […]
Making “Greenspeed” in the UVM FabLab
The Alternative Energy Racing Organization (AERO) uses the FabLab almost daily during the school year to prototype different parts on their alternative energy racing car, Greenspeed. The machine they use most is the laser cutter. The laser cutter allows them to create quick cardboard prototypes to ensure proper geometry and […]
3D Printing the Rank-3 Shi Arrangement
A challenge in many parts of mathematics is that of visualizing structures that live in four dimensions and higher. Such visualizations are crucial for intuition as often important mathematical intricacies do not arise in lower dimensions. In this project, the CEMS UVM FabLab helped Professor Warrington make a 3D […]