Adam Savage about making

A truely inspiring speach from Adam Savage host of Discovery Channels Mythbusters during this years Maker fair. His 10 tips are all true for the bucky lab also ...except no 10 :-)

Hope all of you never stop making things, and you can always ask us.

 

 

 

Building weeks Day 2 - tropical conditions

Today the weather was even better then yesterday, while outside a fresh breeze and sun was blowing inside it got a bit tropical …so shorts was the most common outfit. The expected rain shower was not hitting, but the sky was roaring loud.

The projects already reached a state where you are able to identify whats going on, so we are all pleased about the fast pace. We received a few long awaited tools, so now we are nearly complete …or lets say we don't have to share 3 power drills with 42 people…

here some impressions of our highly concentrated and motivated students and a few first impressions of the projects.

And yes we will have wood glue tomorrow…as Dr. Bucky lab always says: A perfect building weeks day starts at breur. Coffee included !

Building weeks Day 1 - a perfect start

Day one, and after a perfect sunny weekend the sun did not stop today. Within a record time of about 45 minutes (we always measure the time till the table saw runs for its first time …) the workshop was ready. 

A short while later, Frans from festool arrived and we started the Intro from our workshop and the tools. In the beginning we try to give an overview of what is possible within the workshop and what we have in the boxes. Next to safety we also try to share some secrets of the trade and show how its done. 

Some of the students already watched the youtube videos from Festool in which Frans introduced the different possibilities of the tools and already got familiar with our favourite trainer. So good to have him live in the tent and therefore he also got the best place of the workshop - in the sun underneath our small Romazo Pavilion. 

Dr. Bucky Lab donated a fridge and we got a coffee machine from Sodexo for the time out in the tent, so the catering is also set. 

At the end of our circle training, the students directly started to rip the plywood plates into pieces and start building. Its always amazing for us and the professionals from festool how fast our students get used to the machines, thats really learning by doing ! 

Keep fingers crossed that the weather will stay that fine, due to a new fabric on the tent its quite dark inside therefore we love to work outside…

Here some impressions of the first day 

International plywood arrives

what comes first when we are about to start our building weeks ? Yes a delivery from Plywood International with the finest wood we can affort. Within a couple of days these lovely plywood plates will become amazing prototypes. When you close your eyes you can already sense the smell of fresh cutted wood and the sizzling sound of a sawblade cutting through it ...

 

 

FESTOOL TOOL VIDEOS

For those of you who cant wait to get their hands on the tools there is a nice set of videos in Dutch from Festool that shows the basics of our tools. And the best of it, Frans himself will teach you on monday also in the tent.

This is just one video out of a series, so check the youtube channel of festool nl

 

 

READY FOR THE BUILDING WEEKS

hey what a semester, this year we are working on projects about daylight in cooperation with NSVV and up to now the concepts looks really promising. While Dr. Bucky Lab was updated with a new titanium hip replacement with Kobald-chrome alloy and was undergone a rapid recovery program Casper van der Meer jumped in and helped to assist the students to develop their concepts.

We already got a set of new tools from NSVV and now we are also getting an even bigger set of new tools from the department for the growing numbers of students. So we are ready for some building action.

Next week monday we will start in the tent and get our fingers dirty, festool will also arrive on monday to give a proper intro and we cant wait to get our hands on the new tools.

Stay tuned, we will give the highlights every night as usual for the building weeks ...

 

 

 

Make it - Intel

not totally our focus in this semester, but maybe something for the older students. Have a look, maybe you have the idea to start your new business based on a wearable.