This presentation was held for the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Trade on 5 November 2009 at the ProtoSpace FabLab Utrecht, The Netherlands by Siert Wijnia

1. An Introduction to
ProtoSpace,
FabLab Utrecht
5 November 2009

2. Digital Revolutions
communication
computation
fabrication

3. Past

4. Present

5. Future

6. Origin of FabLab
• Class “How to make (almost) anything”
Prof. Neil Gershenfeld,
director of CBA

7. Personal fabrication
Examples

8. Book by Gershenfeld

9. First FabLab: Boston

10. Machines in a FabLab
Milling machine
Laser cutter
Video conferencing
Vinyl cutter system
Milling machine

11. Machines creating
machines
DIY 3D printer (RepRap)

12. FabLabs worldwide
India Norway
fabrication and
instrumentation divide
Costa Rica South Africa

13. International network of
decentralized labs

14. FabLabs Netherlands
Utrecht Amsterdam
Enschede
Den Haag Tilburg/Eindhoven
Groningen Rotterdam
many more...

15. Why in NL?
• Good innovation climate
• Good subsidy infrastructure (eg. EFRO)
• Strong drive

16. Initiators of ProtoSpace

17. Goal: Innovation
Open Traditional
Innovation Innovation
RepRap Q-snap

18. Early prototyping

19. Share
Ideas
Designs
Knowledge
Train your peers
Just in time education

20. Bottom-up
Invention
Job creation
Problem solving
Education Education
Empowerment Empowerment Empowerment

21. Target groups
Artists/ Start-ups
Designers
Conceptual ight frame A conceptual scale model of the ight frame design was produced in
support of the presentation at the ‘Fly Your Thesis’ selection workshop
at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. The 1:5 model
portrays the hardware set-up for the Watervrees project studying the
aggregation of soil particles to study water repellency of soils.
The model has been produced using the Zcorp
450 3D printer of ProtoSpace, based on a 3D
Studio model produced by Naked Architecture.
The baseplate was produced using a CNC gui-
ded laser cutter.
Inventors DVD hard disk recorders Macroscope & CCD camera Video monitor & in- ight sample drawer
Students