{"id":4820,"date":"2012-09-20T23:39:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=4820"},"modified":"2012-09-20T23:39:10","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:39:10","slug":"thursday-night-vermont-fablab-at-essex-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2012\/09\/20\/thursday-night-vermont-fablab-at-essex-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night – Vermont Fablab at Essex Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy work day with a fun, geeky finish . This afternoon I was invited over to the Essex Tech Center to watch my friends Joe C. and Jim D. On the Vermont Fab Lab at Essex Tech. This has been a long time in the making. They got a grant last year that helped them buy the tools and renovate the space. Today was the ribbon curring. It was so cool and exciting.<\/p>\n

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The name is special to me.. when we created our center at UVM we decided to partner with Essex (and anyoen else who’d like to join us) to create a set of networked facilities. Our hope is to have facilities like this eventually accessible to folke living anywhere in the state.. wouldn’t that be cool ?<\/p>\n

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The setup at Essex is really nice. The rapid prototyping tools are all in a glassed in clean space. here’s their 50 W laser cutter<\/p>\n

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A cnc lathe<\/p>\n

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a very nice electronics bench with some nice arduinos on display<\/p>\n

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a tool chest<\/p>\n

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a vinyl cutter<\/p>\n

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Armando V. , the state Sec’y of Education did the honors of ‘cutting the ribbon’\u00a0 .. though the ribbon was a piece of acrylic and the cutting was done by laser.. at least he hit the button.<\/p>\n

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Doug the shop teacher gave us a VERY cool demo of his new Safe Cut saw. it has sensors in the blade that detect if it ever accidentally touches skin. If it doe it fires a chunk of aluminum into the saw blade and stops it instantly.. it destroys the blade, but saves your fingers !<\/p>\n

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Megahn from 7 days checks out the workings of the saw<\/p>\n

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My buddy seth was there.. he had his middle finger cut off in a door accident when he was 3.. but it was reattached.\u00a0 looks good now !<\/p>\n

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we then mosseyed over to the 3D printer. .. we heard how a student made a 10cent plastic part that prevented the need to replace a 300 dollar part for one of the school’s big mixers.. Nice !<\/p>\n

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here are the parts.\u00a0 This technology is going to change the world.. mark my words !<\/p>\n

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One of the kids, Abdul gave me a very cool money clip that he designed and printed.. (now if i just had the money to put in it \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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the party ended with a demo .. we all went back to the main room<\/p>\n

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and doug used a hot dog to simulate his finger and tried to cut with the saw. The thing made a loud bang and the blade dropped out of sight. There wasn’t even a nick in the hot dog. AMAZING !<\/p>\n

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After the Essex event, Seth and I went down town to meet some of the other folks from Vermont Makers. We were having our final org meeting before the Champlain Makerfaire<\/a> on Sat Sept 29th at Shelboune farms,,<\/p>\n

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We’ll all be there.. will you be ?<\/p>\n

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nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n

-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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