Fablab café first day, just like home

Today was a great day to open the Fablab cafe: 3rd of September, just one day after the Vietnamese National Day, which happens to be the last holiday in Vietnam until the New Year. And this surely is a good sign that the development of Fablab Saigon will now be non-stop! There are still things to sort out, but…

May-June 2015 / Fablab Saigon latest news

It’s already June! A lot happened in the last months. A lot yet not enough 🙂 Transparency is important to us, and it is even more because we have the support from many of you, so we will try to keep you posted here on our blog with the latest updates about us! On the highlights, we’ve been busy…

Engineering education and the Makers movement

Last week, I attended the Vietnam Engineering Education Conference (VEEC 2015) in Danang. As a co-founder of Fablab Saigon, I was invited to share my view on the Makers Movement and what it means for the next generation of engineers in Vietnam. I was very excited, yet couldn’t help but feeling the impostor syndrom. As a makerspace, Fablab Saigon is…

Visiting Makerspace Bangkok

This is the second part of the article on makers in Bangkok (see part 1 here). I was quite lucky that the 2 spaces I found were pretty close to my hotel in the east part of Bangkok. One that I missed but will try to meet next time I’m in Bangkok is fablab@school. The previous article was about Maker Zoo. This article…

Visiting Maker Zoo Bangkok

Last week, I went to Bangkok for a few days. And instead of visiting temples, I went to visit 2 makerspaces. A nice way to combine leisure and work. As people say, when you do what you love, should you still call it work? This first article is about Maker Zoo. Next article will be…

Earthworm farm visit

Last week, the Fablab Saigon team went to visit M. Tuấn from the An Phu earthworm farm. there are quite a lot of information on his website already, but nothing is like going there, see and, for the most daring, touch the worms and have M. Tuấn telling his story. The farm is about 1h drive from…