digital fabrication

Digital modeling and fabrication is a process that joins design with production through the use of 3D modeling software or computer-aided design (CAD) and additive and subtractive manufacturing processes. 3D printing falls under additive, while machining falls under subtractive. These tools allow designers to produce material digitally, which is something greater than an image on screen, and actually tests the accuracy of the software and computer lines.

Digital fabrication is the process used in a Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) to create things.

 

24-05-2019

Machine design @ Fab Academy 2019

As part of the group assignment of this year's Fab Academy at Waag, a Marble Calender Machine was made.

 

15-11-2018

Follow the Fab Academy in Amsterdam

In 2019 it is again possible to follow the Fab Academy for five months at Fablab Amsterdam in the Waag. The deadline for applications for Fab Academy 2019 is December 25th 2018.

 

3-08-2018

Seven future healthcare solutions

What kind of prototype for an open healthcare solution can you develop in eight weeks? We look back at the projects of the first series MakeHealth Prototyping.

 

25-06-2018

Fab Academy final presentations 2018

All participants of the Fab Academy 2018 have presented their projects. An overview of the graduates from Amsterdam.

 

6-12-2017

Campaign to rebuild Fab Lab 'La Casemate'

After Fab Lab 'La Casemate' in Grenoble was set on fire as an anti-technology protest, a crowdfunding campaign now helps to rebuild the lab.

 

4-11-2017

Waag celebrates a decade of Fablab Amsterdam

Ten years ago Waag opened one of the first Fablabs of Europe in Amsterdam. On 4 November 2017 we celebrate this anniversary with a Talkshow and Makerfest in the Waag.

 

13-07-2017

From neighbourhoods to MakerHoods

Imagine vibrant communities of people, working together in an open, transparent, fair way, building their cities, their living and learning environments together. Imagine a Society 4.0.

 

6-07-2017

80 OBA employees trained in maker education and digital fabrication

A 'Maakplaats' is a maker space at one of the Amsterdam public libraries (OBA), containing a similar set of machines as a Fablab. Not so visible for the public is the training programme for employees of the municipal public libraries we organise. We are training a whole new team of coaches that will run the maker spaces at the OBA libraries.

 

15-06-2017

Fab Academy final presentations 2017

For the 8th year in a row, a group of skilled students graduated from the Fab Academy at Waag. Students from 39 countries came together via a video conference to present their final projects to each other. In this 6 month-course students broaden their (mechanical) knowledge and learn how to work with the tools and machines that you find in a Fab Lab.

 

8-09-2016

The future of toy design

What started from a very personal interest in small wooden playthings, evolved to become a quest to find the right bend between wood and digital technology. Recent TU/e graduate Ismael Velo Feijo explains his graduation project MISC. Magic Toys.

 

8-09-2016

TextileLab Amsterdam officially opened

Amsterdam has e new creative workspace. After its official opening TextileLab Amsterdam—located on the Nieuwmarkt—will be open to those who want to experiment with new forms of textiles, clothing, materials, and digital fabrication.

 

12-08-2016

Landscape milling at the Fablab

Architect Christopher de Vries (of Rademacher & de Vries), maybe familiar to some of you working on the Amsteldecks project, is milling an art work showing four beautiful reliefs of an old mine in Southern Limburg.

 

1-07-2016

Turn street patterns into objects

For Maptime, developer Bert Spaan created a nifty online tool to extract the data of a street pattern, and turn it into an object. You can simply choose your favourite part of the city and create a vector image (svg) of it. This svg can be used at digital machines, like they have at a Fablab or other makerspace, to fabricate a sticker (with the vinyl cutter) or laser it from wood.

 

9-11-2015

Towards the future architect

To explore the fascinating (though sometimes tumultuous) landscape of modern architecture, Waag recently hosted an evening of presentations from five architectural experts within the Design/Fabrication Lab project to discuss their current work in the context of their changing profession.

 

25-09-2015

Fablab observations

The last years I wondered about the buzz around digital fabrication. While studying architecture at the Technical University of Delft (2003 - 2010), I experimented with this technology to create architectural models. As design and education professional in the cultural field (2010 - present) I used this technology in practice. It took me years to learn how to use these tools within my design process.

 

3-09-2015

New kid on the block

The users of our Fablab that visit the Open Day will now find a giant new laser cutter in the space, dwarfing our previous machine.

 

18-03-2016

Recycled 3D printer filament?

3D printers, like the Ultimakers we have in our Fablab, use a kind of plastic to create objects, usually PLA, which is biodegradable and is derived from renewable resources.

 

9-04-2015

3D printing in paramedical care

3D printing is a hot topic in the news at the moment and everyone seems to be interested when you’re talking about it. Seven paramedical care students of the minor Care Technology (at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) had the opportunity to work with it. Twan van Dam and Felix van Balgooi investigated the possibilities of 3D printing in the paramedical care at Waag's Fablab.

 

23-01-2015

Low-cost prosthesis: using recycled plastic

Bo Reurings recently continued the research for a low-cost, self-adjustable prosthesis at Fablab Amsterdam.

 

7-11-2014

Digital fabrication for architecture

One Architecture and Waag both are researching how digital (fabrication) technologies can change the field of architecture. 3D design, scanning, printing and milling, social networking, all these and other technologies are changing how we make things, fitting to our local contexts and personal needs.

 

29-10-2014

How sustainable is digital fabrication?

How attached are makers to their objects and what are the effects of digital DIY on the environment?

 

23-06-2014

Fab Night #2 - Designing and making your own sketchbook

After the first Fab Night making kalimbas, this time we focused on bookbinding with a machine to make your own beautiful sketchbooks.

 

12-06-2014

Making kalimbas at Fab Night

At the first Fab Night we organized on the 5 June 2014, we started with an amazing workshop: building your own kalimba in just one evening!

 

10-06-2014

Fab Academy final presentations 2014

On June 4th, students of the Waag's Fab Academy (as well as several guests from other Fab Labs around Europe) presented their final projects to a global audience through a live video conference.

 

9-05-2014

Paola Antonelli visits the Waag

For the event 'What design can do', senior curator of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Paola Antonelli, came to The Netherlands. On the day before the event she visited three top design locations, one of them being Waag. She made a tour guided by Sabine Wildevuur of our Creative Care Lab and was showed the Fablab Amsterdam on the first floor of the building.

 

6-06-2013

More space for makers

On 21 June 2013 we launched the Makers Guild at the Waag in Amsterdam.

 

6-05-2013

Visit to the Salone Milan

Alex Schaub visited the Salone at Milan on invitation of Carmine Deganello.

 

15-03-2013

The Sample Book makes textile innovation tangible

The Sample Book made at Fablab Amsterdam includes samples of materials and new technologies to communicate the potentials to textile and fashion designers working at our Fablab.

 

1-03-2013

Prototyping for the Low Cost Prosthesis

For the project ‘Low Cost Prosthesis’, our designer Mickael Boulay is currently working on an adjustable connection part and a foot. To get relevant feedback and to be able to make the next steps, he gathered experts in the Waag for a meetup.

 

26-02-2013

What? A 4D printer?

We just started learning the amazing things that can be done with 3D printing, and now reseachers of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT are presenting a 4D printer. A what?

 

17-01-2013

Fab the Golden Age

On Saturday, January 12th, our Fablab was all about the Golden Age. Visitors made personal art based on our history and on the work of the old masters.

 

20-11-2012

Rijksstudio at the Bijenkorf

At the end of October 2012, the Rijksmuseum launched Rijksstudio, an open collection of 125.000 works of the museum. We showed people what you can do with this collection at the Bijenkorf stores in Amsterdam and Eindhoven.

 

18-05-2012

Remaking and Re-using

Belgrade has been burned down 19 times in history, including the recent bombings 13 years ago. It is a city, which has been rebuilt and reused over and over. The historical layer cake won’t go unnoticed when walking around the streets of Belgrade. It is like this superficial versioning system showing its revisions and forks like an open source syste

 

11-05-2012

Fabbed food

On May 9th our first Waag Open – Get Together was held. We invited about 70 interns and artists who work or have worked at Waag.

 

8-03-2012

First Fablab in Southeast Asia opens in Yogyakarta

On 29 July 2011, the HONFablab in Yogyakarta, Indonesia was inaugurated.