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Makers, impact, society - FabLab Starter
http://www.fablabstarter.com/blog/2013/07/12/makers-must-impact-society
A blog about building fablabs. Makers, Impact, Society. Some ideas on how makers should help the business community and their role in innovating the country. A different perspective on how inventing the future should not stop us to think about the current times and the social issues surrounding us. I’m thinking to write this post since I started the blog. I postponed it because I felt I needed a deeper understanding of the issue. I’m talking about craftsman hand-working on wood, stone, wool, leathe...
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Blog Archive - FabLab Starter
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A blog about building fablabs. Makers, impact, society. The Lean FabLab part 2 - or Why you shouldn’t buy a 3d printer, yet. Makers, Impact, Society. The Lean FabLab Part 2 - or Why You Shouldn't Buy a 3d Printer, Yet. A programmer, creative, entrepreneur based in Pisa, Italy. I'm starting this blog as a journal in my own tentative to start a fablab in my hometown in Italy. MIT Center for Bits and Atoms.
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The Lean FabLab - FabLab Starter
http://www.fablabstarter.com/blog/2013/07/02/the-lean-fablab
A blog about building fablabs. Reading the “Lean Startup” book from Eric Reis, I started thinking how his teachings could be applied to building and running a FabLab. But beware: like most methodologies, this is no silver bullet. Every advice must be considered within the actual context and taken with common sense. A FabLab as a startup. The central theme of the Lean Startup gravitates around the definition of a startup itself: an organization devoted to identifying a sustainable business. Imagine you&rs...
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about - FabLab Starter
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A blog about building fablabs. I’m starting this blog as a journal in my own tentative to start a fablab in my hometown in Italy. I plan to collect useful information about machines, organization, logistics and business model for a fablab, building on the work already done by many around the world. I’m Fiore Basile, a programmer, creative, entrepreneur based in Pisa, Italy. I have many interests, to name a few: digital arts, creative coding, electronic music, self-improvement. You can reach me:.
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The Lean FabLab part 2 - or Why you shouldn't buy a 3d printer, yet - FabLab Starter
http://www.fablabstarter.com/blog/2013/07/05/the-lean-fablab-part-2-or-why-you-shouldnt-by-a-3d-printer
A blog about building fablabs. The Lean FabLab Part 2 - or Why You Shouldn't Buy a 3d Printer, Yet. In the previous post I promised to give some more details on the techniques proposed by the Lean Startup methodology to validate a business hypothesis. Let’s talk about one of the first that came to my mind: testing how much people is really interested in using your FabLab tools and which you should buy. But wasting resources is wrong! Let me bring you an example. During my career as an IT professional...
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FabLabs: lessons learned - FabLab Starter
http://www.fablabstarter.com/blog/2013/08/28/fablabs-lessons-learned
A blog about building fablabs. I didn’t post much during the last month, but I think I learned a few things about FabLabs and am eager to share these findings with you. But first, a short recap. I started this blog talking about sustainability and how it could be achieved, I also spoke about techniques to discover and learn what is the bare minimum service one could foresee for a FabLab. Finally I discussed about the role makers and FabLabs should play in the society in the near future. So the lesson lea...
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Starting a FabLab - FabLab Starter
http://www.fablabstarter.com/blog/2013/06/28/starting-a-fablab
A blog about building fablabs. When starting a new project, especially on our own, we should always ask ourselves if it’s worth the work and which are our expectations about it. As an exercise I’ll try to summarize the goals I want to achieve with this project, and the motivations behind them. Others might share some of those; some probably don’t as they are strictly related to our local (italian) business and industrial environment. A place for sharing, tinkering and learning. This is a major depart fro...
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My FabLab Survey - FabLab Starter
http://www.fablabstarter.com/blog/2013/07/11/my-fablab-survey
A blog about building fablabs. I spent the last few weeks trying to study the current state of the FabLab movement, my goal was to get a deeper understanding of how all these small groups of people agree on building a FabLab, how they organize it and the resources used to get it done. I learnt few interesting facts that I think might be useful to my project and to those seeking similar goals. I think that finding a physical space and having fixed opening hours makes a difference in transforming a group o...
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Artigianato Digitale
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Artigianato Digitale è il punto di incontro tra l’artigianato tradizionale e il mondo dei makers. Aiutiamo gli artigiani a usare spunti tecnologici per raggiungere nuovi mercati con i loro prodotti tradizionali. Siamo una startup con una grande ambizione: consentire a tutte le aziende di usare le conoscenze e le tecnologie dei makers per diventare più competitive. Il nostro artigiano digitale per eccellenza, si occupa tra l’altro di consulenza sulla stampa 3d e sul taglio laser. E’ esperto di CAD / C...
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