Bial brilha. Um Satélite na FabLabEDP, Coflex, e uma Bancada de Trabalho Portátil

Eis uma Empresa Farmacêutica das nossas, que vai vender o primeiro Medicamento Português nos Estados Unidos, já é mais uma prova de que se vai evoluindo, por aqui:

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ALBERTO TEIXEIRAO primeiro medicamento totalmente desenvolvido em Portugal chega hoje às farmácias norte-americanas. "É o culminar do nosso trabalho", sublinha António Portela, presidente da Bial, ao Económico.
O Zebinix, usado no tratamento da epilepsia, começa hoje a ser vendido nas farmácias norte-americanas, cinco meses depois de ter sido aprovado pelo regulador dos EUA, revelou hoje a Bial, farmacêutica portuguesa que desenvolveu o medicamento.
http://economico.sapo.pt/noticias/bial-comeca-hoje-a-vender-primeiro-medicamento-portugues-nos-eua_190639.html

Não há quem fique espantado com a capacidade destes Míudos do 12º Ano, não querem ser "Famosos" de TV, antes, vão constyruindo um Satélite!

Parabéns a eles, e à colaboração e dica da FabLabEDP

Bravo!

ALUNOS DE ESCOLA NOS OLIVAIS CONSTROEM SATÉLITE PARA CONCURSO EUROPEUUm grupo de alunos do 12º ano de uma escola nos Olivais construiu um satélite do tamanho de uma lata de refrigerante. É um dos projetos portugueses a concurso nacional, que pode vir a representar o país internacionalmente, na Noruega. 

http://videos.sapo.pt/QWSzlj3mbsUOPpIR3EGM

Mais uma variante do Sugru, para que façam sabe-se lá que Engenhocas...

Vem em várias cores, e Padrões, e serve para cabos de ferramentas, juntar provisóriamente Objectos, cablagem, e uma data de coisas mais, apresento-vos o Coflex: 

Coflex: Sugru and Duct Tape Have a Baby

ktana

Sugru rocks, but it can be expensive and permanent, duct tape holds the universe together but it's sort of permanent and not at all repositionable, and can be stiff and thick. That's where coflex comes in. Coflex is inexpensive, sticks to itself and you don't have to wait for it to dry or set. Also known as vet wrap, coban, flex wrap, cohesive bandage wrapping tape, sport wrap, and a bunch of other names, it's used in medicine for bandaging, holding things together and a bunch of other uses that aren't official.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Coflex-Sugru-and-Duct-Tape-Have-a-Baby/

...E Bancadas de Trabalho há muitas, mas portáteis, eis uma que merece ser vista com atenção, porque esta, fazem-na vocês, em casa:

Make a Portable WorkstationBenne
After having finished my CNC router (see my other Instructable), my workshop (a small shed in my backyard 3 x 6 m), became pretty full. The only other tools that I can fit in there are a small table saw, a drill press and some small powertools and handtools. So most of my woodworking happens outside. Next to woodworking and CNC stuff, I also like to work on smaller projects with electronics, which requires soldering etc. Since my 'workshop' is pretty full, I didn't have a proper place to work on these smaller projects. So I just moved some of my smaller tools (screwdrivers, soldering iron, pliers etc.) into my bedroom and worked on my electonics projects there. My parents were ok with the fact that I did some soldering in my bedroom, (better than in the kitchen or the living room), but didn't like the fact that my tools were laying all over the place. The table I was doing my work on also became pretty dented and full of glue and solder blobs.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Portable-Workstation/

Emachineshop, Omerod, e as Workshops da FabLab EDP

A Emachineshop pode-vos permitir um mundo de opções, na fabricação de peças, e ainda, vos permite, não só encomendar, como ter um programa CAD de borla!
E um programa onde podem especificar os Materiais, e as Espessuras, a partir de Listas bastante completas, que já vos dão uma ideia concreta do preço dos material e do trabalho a ser feito...
Agora, observem, como podem mandar fazer uma peça que precisem, apenas a partir duma foto:

Create custom metal and plastic parts through our ONLINE machine shop!

Why waste time with conventional machine shops and waiting for quotations? Reduce your total time up to 90%. Inventors, businesses, contractors and universities have created thousands of custom parts in a wide variety of materials. Get started today by downloading our free CAD software.

http://www.emachineshop.com/

Eis aqui como correm as coisas, depois da montagem duma Omerod, uma Impressora 3D de montar a partir dum Kit, e até que ela imprima alguma coiusa,  relatado por um Engenhocas, como nós, Andrew Back, no Blogue da DesignSpark:

RepRap Ormerod Commissioning and First Print

Andrew Back

Commissioning, adjustments, axis compensation and a first print.
Upon completing the construction of the Ormerod I started to go through the process of commissioning the printer. However, I ran into a couple of issues and then ran out of time due to other projects.
Having recently picked up where I left off, it quickly became apparent that there have been numerous updates to firmware and documentation — which made everything go a lot smoother this time round.
Replacement Duet board The Duet controller board that shipped with some of the earliest kits had an assembly error that meant that they needed to be plugged in to both the power supply and USB, and as such could not operate without a PC connected and with simply a network connection. Thankfully, RepRapPro offer a board swap service for those early kits and I decided to take advantage of this.

http://www.designspark.com/eng/blog/reprap-ormerod-commissioning-and-first-print

Mas onde é que eu já vi isto?
No FabLabEDP!
Peguem em 800 euros, e vão lá, que vos dão o Kit, e vos ensinam, numa Workshop, como montar a Impressora, que vão levar para casa!
Topem-me só as caras destes Engenhocas felizes!!!

WHAT IS A FABLAB? 

"Fablab" is a short term for “Fabrication Laboratory”, or, like some people prefer to call it,, “Fabulous Laboratory”.
The concept was developed in the Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) of the Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT), through a course named How to do (almost) anything, lectured by Prof. Neil Gershenfeld.
A FabLab consists of a set of digital fabrication tools for rapid prototyping, such as milling machines, laser cutter, vynil cutter machines, electronics workbench, computers and programming tools, supported by open source software. This is a concept created for the community, based on "Learn by doing" education, providing the ideal environment for invention. The projects are conceived in 2D (in the computers) and get real in 3D (by the machines). What kind of things you can do in the Fablab? Almost anything, it is your imagination that rules! Currently the labs include computer controlled machines with spatial resolution down to microns, and electronics that have time resolution in microseconds...

http://www.fablabedp.edp.pt/en

Pololu, com cabos incríveis, Ponoko e Lâ, Lego que lê, e a Fab Academy

Assistam a esta bela Geek apresentar-vos estas Ligações e cabos da Pololu, que são um espectáculo...

New video: Pololu cables and wires

Emily is back with another short video, this time showing how easy it is to use our large selection of wiring products to make clean, custom cables for your electronics project.

http://www.pololu.com/catalog/category/39

Enrolar Novelos de Lâ!

Eis algo que tem sido um Sucesso, na Ponoko, uma Máquina de enrolar Lâ, algo mesmo divertido, só de ver, quanto mais de montar!

Spin your own Wool Yarn with the Electric Eel Wheel

Spinning wheels always bring to mind fairy tales: Rumpelstiltskin spinning straw into gold in exchange for a maiden’s first born child, Sleeping Beauty cursedly pricking her finger on the spindle.

But luckily, Maurice Ribble’s story isn’t so grim (pun intended.) Maurice is a computer engineer who lives with his wife Emily in the Boston area. “I always say my wife’s first love is knitting because she’s done it for much longer than she’s known me,” he says.

Emily often spins her own yarn for her knitting projects and totes a manual spinning wheel to her knitting group. “The mechanics of the spinning wheel were fascinating to my engineering mind and her need to travel with it gave me some great reasons to set about making a very portable, electric spinning wheel,” Maurice explains.

http://blog.ponoko.com/2013/09/05/spin-your-own-wool-yarn-with-the-electric-eel-wheel/

Depois, temos este Robot feito de Lego Technik, que "lê" os Livors Kindle, página, por página, carregando no botão, até o livro acabar:

Lego robot that strips DRM off Kindle books

Cory Doctorow

Peter Purgathofer, an associate professor at Vienna University of Technology, built a Lego Mindstorms robot that presses "next page" on his Kindle repeatedly while it faces his laptop's webcam. The cam snaps a picture of each screen and saves it to a folder that is automatically processed through an online optical character recognition program. The result is an automated means of redigitizing DRM-crippled ebooks in a clear digital format. It's clunky compared to simply removing the DRM using common software, but unlike those DRM-circumvention tools, this setup does not violate the law.

http://boingboing.net/2013/09/07/lego-robot-that-strips-drm-off.html

 

E o FabLab EDP voltou em grande, depois de colaborar neste projecto, a Fab Academy, boa ideia!

About

How to Make Almost Anything

The Fab Academy is a Digital Fabrication Program directed by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center For Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course, MAS 863: How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy began as an outreach project from the CBA, and has since spread to Fab Labs around the world. The program provides advanced digital fabrication instruction for students through an unique, hands-on curriculum and access to technological tools and resources.

Learn to Turn Codes into Things

Just as communications and computation went from analog to digital, resulting in PCs and the Internet, the digitization of fabrication is leading to personal fabricators that will allow anyone to make almost anything, anywhere. The development of digital fabrication is based on creating codes that don’t just describe things, they are things, much as proteins are coded in molecular biology. This research roadmap is ultimately aiming at a Star Trek-style replicator, but prototype versions of these capabilities are already available in field fab labs.

At the Fab Academy, you will learn how to envision, prototype and document your ideas through many hours of hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools. We take a variety of code formats and turn them into physical objects.

http://www.fabacademy.org/supernode/barcelona/2013/carvao.luis/

 

Portugal Ventures financia, Porta-chaves com Truques, FabLab EDP a bombar, e um Novo Material descoberto... Poir acaso!

Até 85% de Financiamento, para projectos de Tecnologias de Informação e de Comunicação, Electrónica & WEB, Ciências da Vida e Recursos Endógenos, Nanotecnologia e Materiais, notícia da Teamvision, é ao que vocês, Engenhocas espigadotes, se podem candidatar:

Portugal Ventures abre nova Call for Entrepreneurship 

A fase de submissão dos projetos decorrerá entre os dias 29 de julho e 5 de setembro de 2013. O pré-registo para candidaturas à próxima Call For Entrepreneurship abriu no dia 17 de Julho. Esta iniciativa visa possibilitar o acesso a investimento de capital de risco de projetos inovadores de base científica e tecnológica nas fases iniciais. 

A fase de submissão dos projetos decorrerá entre os dias 29 de julho e 5 de setembro de 2013. Projetos de Tecnologias de Informação e de Comunicação, Eletrónica & WEB, Ciências da Vida e Recursos Endógenos, Nanotecnologia e Materiais são elegíveis para investimento. 

Os projetos selecionados pela Portugal Ventures beneficiarão de um investimento de até 750 mil euros, num máximo de 85% das necessidades de financiamento do mesmo. 

Os empreendedores poderão beneficiar do apoio e orientação de uma das entidades da Rede de Parceiros do Programa de Ignição (Ignition Partners Network), na preparação e qualificação do projeto, potenciando a sua aptidão para investimento de capital de risco. Todas as candidaturas são submetidas através do website da Portugal Ventures em www.portugalventures.pt.

http://www.teamvision.pt/ver_noticia.php?id=416

Um Porta-chaves cheio de truques, para aqueles que vão muitas vezes acampar, para Ciclistas... 

Ou para aqueles que gostam de desmontar Sucata para aproveitar peças!

Muáháháhá

Survival Supply Keychain

cdveltri

This is a simple key chain with a few supplies wrapped up in a small para chord key chain. The supplies could be used in a pinch when camping or hiking, although you hope you never need to! It contains a few feet of rope, a small knife, fishing line, fishing hook, and a  strike anywhere match.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Survival-Supply-Keychain/

O FabLab EDP está a bombar, com Projectos do caneco, e tenho de lá voltar...

Vão lá também, pá, que nunca foi tão fácil, agora é só apanhar o Metro até Moscavide, e está logo a seguir ao Lidl.

Cá vão 3 cenas fantásticas, do Facebook Fablab EDP:

Próximo Sábado !
+info e inscrições : http://altlab.org/events/#WCDM

 See Translation

FABLAB FM!

Radio transmitter fabricated at Fablab EDP

MAGNETIC MOTOR (9 photos)

E para provar que este Mundo ainda está cheio de surpresas, eis um Novo Material, uma Quimera inatingível, sonhado desde há 100 anos...

DESCOBERTO POR PURO ACASO!

Scientists make "Impossible Material" ... by accident

Lakshmi Sandhana

In an effort to create a more viable material for drug delivery, a team of researchers has accidentally created an entirely new material thought for more than 100 years to be impossible to make. Upsalite is a new form of non-toxic magnesium carbonate with an extremely porous surface area which allows it to absorb more moisture at low humidities than any other known material. "The total area of the pore walls of one gram of material would cover 800 square meters (8611 sq ft) if you would 'roll them out'", Maria Strømme, Professor of Nanotechnology at the Uppsala University, Sweden tells Gizmag. That's roughly equal to the sail area of a megayacht. Aside from using substantially less energy to create dryer environments for producing electronics, batteries and pharmaceuticals, Upsalite could also be used to clean up oil spills, toxic waste and residues.

http://www.gizmag.com/upsalite-impossible-material/28393/

Molde cortado a Laser! E uma história simplesmente inspiradora!

Estive hoje na Fablab EDP, onde malta porreira, como o Luís e o Ferdy, vos ajudam a fazer, por exemplo, estes dois Moldes para fazer a Pen & Note, em Oogoo, ou Sugru... ou  o que queiram!

São feitos em Acrílico Tranparente, para que vejam se a pasta que lá ponham está MESMO bem inserida em todo o Molde... Mas também tem um aspecto impecável!  

Não, a foto não está ao contrário, lembrem-se, na Moldagem, como nos Carimbos tem de se inserir o Texto ao contrário, para sair a direito!

Vê -se bem, aqui, o Vazio onde vai entrar o Oogoo, ou outro Material...

Mas aqui, ainda se vê melhor!

A Tampa sai fácilmente, porque os Parafusos só seguram as outras camadas do molde.

Amanhã, se Deus quizer, passa-se à Moldagem com Oogoo!

MUÁHÁHÁHÁ!

E para se inspirarem a sério, dica da CNCKing, sabiam que o criador da Shopbot, começou a cortar Placa, numa serra Pendular?

Vejam esta história:

The New Manufacturing: Ted Hall at TEDxRichmond 

TEDxTalks

Ted Hall, founder and CEO of ShopBot Tools, Inc., first got excited about digital fabrication 20 years ago. Ted wanted a digitally controlled tool that would cut plywood parts for backyard boatbuilding projects. In trying to find such a tool, he learned that the CNC (computer numerically controlled) technology of the time was heavily industrial and oriented to high-volume manufacturing. Ted's idea, which would become ShopBot, was to create a digital fabrication tool that was instead oriented to use by individuals and small shops.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bhHiMzDP3pU#at=163

 

Mais uma vez no FabLabEDP

Lá fui eu, para cortar Mdf de 3mm, e foram 4 horas para cortar estas peças todas, atenção o desenho é para 6mm, e as placas de 3mm, por isso foram 4 placas a cortar, para dar nisto:

Ainda não foi colado e aparafusado, mas vai ser mais ou menos assim, um Torno Fonly, para pequenos trabalhos em Plástico e Madeira, aproveitando uma Dremmel como Motor:

E na Fablab EDP vão encontrar uma data mais de coisas, das quais mostro apenas alguns exemplos do que se pode fazer agora, a partir de Desenhos feitos por Computador:

Visitem também o Facebook da FabLabEDP:
https://www.facebook.com/fablabedp?ref=ts&fref=ts


Por isso, se tiverem uma FabLab por perto...
VÃO LÁ!

Holdfast, Dragon, Nanoscribe, e o Robofold!

Do nosso amigo Scotttland, um Instructable fenomenal.

Paradoxalmente, este Antepassado do Torno pode vir a ser muito útil para os Fabbers:

Ye Olde Holdfast

Scotttland

Before steel vises, before iron clamps, and before the industrial revolution, before even the fall of Rome, there were holdfasts; innocuous bent iron bars with the potential to hold a workpiece firmly in place while a craftsperson goes to town on it.  The holdfast holds a few advantages over modern work-holding tools.  It drops into a hole in the top of a bench, giving it an extended reach across the bench top and a 360 degree range of direction.  Application is a simple drop and a tap with a mallet, giving it an instant grip.  No manual tightening.  Release is a simple strike in the back.  And a holdfast keeps a low profile; some will lay nearly flat across a workpiece and won't interfere with planing or routing.  

http://www.instructables.com/id/Ye-Olde-Holdfast/

Imagens do agrado de qualquer Engenhocas, a Dragon atraca na Estação Espacial International, apesar de com um dia de atraso, eis um autêntico Vagão de Carga do Espaço, não-tripulado, que vai ajudar em muito a Estação, e a Exploração comercial do Espaço:

Dragon docks with ISS a day late

David Szondy

Today at 8:56 AM EST (13:56 GMT), the Spacex Dragon CRS-2 mission berthed with the International Space Station (ISS). The unmanned cargo ship was captured using the station’s robotic arm at 5:31 AM EST (10:31 GMT) by ISS Expedition 34 Commander Kevin Ford and Tom Mashburn of NASA before being secured to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Harmony module.

http://www.gizmag.com/dragon-crs-2-docked/26491/

Se precisarem duma Impressora 3D para trabalhos MESMO minúsculos, já está à venda, para quem queira, esta Impressora, uma Micro e Nano-Impressora 3D:

Nanoscribe claims world’s fastest commercially available nano-3D printer title

Leon Gettler

Shoes, robots, houses and prosthetic hands, 3D printing has already gone well beyond the bounds of model making, and biotechnology is another of the new frontiers where the technology is set to make a huge impact. Nanoscribe GmbH, a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), is pushing the boundaries of this space with the release of what's claimed to be the world’s fastest and highest resolution commercially available 3D printer of micro- and nanostructures – the Photonic Professional GT.

http://www.gizmag.com/3d-printing-photonic-professional-gt--nanoscribe/26329/

E agora, eis algo, dica da página Facebook da FabLab EDP.
Isto está mesmo à espera duma versão Desktop, Robofold, um Método de dobrar Chapa CNC que promete dar novos horizontes ao Fabbing!
Pois podem desenhar e vender os vossos Projectos no Site...
Ou até, comprar os Robots que dobram Chapa, e iniciar, ou expandir, o vosso Negócio!
É bom!

RoboFold Webstore.

Artworks, furniture, lighting, surfaces and structures.
Made using the RoboFold process and hand-folding.

All works are in lightly brushed anodised aluminium. Prices include VAT and Shipping.
Each product has a development "Status":
Available: The product is ready to buy.
Kick Start: Become a backer of new products. First editions are limited, so pre-order to ensure you get priority.
Remix: Download our software and re-design pre-existing designs. Upload via the Production page.
Co-Develop: RoboFold works with you to create a design that suits your requirements.

http://www.robofold.com/index.php?WEBYEP_DI=26