Fab Labs are struggling with money to remain accessible at low cost, idealy at no cost, to everybody. Fab Lab equipments are quite expensive, not only as a CAPEX but also when in operation.
It sounds fair to me to require members some kind of contribution when they use the equipements extensively. But the issue is the following: Fab Lab cannot afford permanent staff that would control access, meter equipment usage, prepare bills and manage financial transactions manually.
My idea is to provide Fab Labs a device that could be installed in all locations where the FabLab wants to control access and perform automatic metering
Intro and Fab Labs tour
No presentation this week
Topics covered (course) Video recording (course) Students and LabsThis first week was an opportunity to present ourself to each other and to discover the people with will spend the next 20 weeks with
I started updating my computer and I installed the required softwares
I listed all the tasks I need to accomplish by the end of the course and I organized them in a GitLab issues list with milestones (not part of Fab Cloud)
I configured my computer in order to push the weekly deliverables to Fab Cloud repository
I started to write down my ideas and I started thinking how I could bring them to life
My capstone project