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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Fab Lab"”.
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Custom mechanisms for tunable material deposition
Digital fabrication tools, specifically additive manufacturing systems, have consistently advanced in efficiencies such as print speed, gantry size, material cost and ease of use. However most of these systems remain limited in their ability to enable automated mixing and extrusion of multiple …
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Fields and Consumer Groups: The Layered and Overlapping Roles of Culture
… essay is a descriptive ethnography of a local fab lab. The essay describes in rich detail the ways in which new skills are developed in a shared work environment, and contextualizes the findings using practice theory as a lens. The essay serves to highlight the co-productive nature of the …
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O Uso das TIC na Educação de Irecê: Ciclo de Formação Humana, Ambientes de Tecnologia e o “Faça Você Mesmo”
… é contribuir com uma ação interventiva colaborativa utilizando as TIC na perspectiva do Do It Yourself, de forma estruturante e fundante, a partir da compreensão da proposta curricular por Ciclo de Formação Humana e sua relação com os Ambientes de Aprendizagem da Escola José Francisco …
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Making machines that make : object-oriented hardware meets object-oriented software
… of advanced manufacturing. Existing digital fabrication tools enable repeatability and precision by using codes to describe machine actions. But the infrastructure used for digital fabrication machines is difficult to extend, modify, and customize. It is very difficult for the end-user to …
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Use of sensory information by cerambycids and their natural enemies to locate resources and mates
The purpose of this dissertation is to extend knowledge of the cues and signals that cerambycids and their natural enemies use to locate mates and resources. Many species of longhorned beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) prefer to feed in trees that are stressed, weakened, or in the process of …