A key influence on our interest in Fabbing within the school curriculum has been Neil Gershenfeld’s book ‘Fab‘. This describes two key ideas. The first is the development of some interesting pedagogical ideas through a course called ‘How to make (almost) anything‘ in which students are introduced to mircrocontroller technology and a range of fabrication tools and encouraged to make something (anything) they want. The second idea is a development of this in which the same equipment, a ‘Fab Lab‘ has been provided to a range of communities around the world.

As I noted in a blog comment in 2004, many UK schools already have this kind of microcontroller and fabrication technology, but how many are using these technologies in an innovative way either within their curriculum or with their local communities? If your answer to this question is ‘I am’, Please let us know! See the initial blog post (below) for details on how to contribute to this blog.

Torben

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