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…
DetailsLast year we missed the deadline for Arduino Day. We were too busy setting up Fablab, but we said we wouldn’t miss it this year! So here we are, very happy to announce that we will be hosting Arduino Day 2015 at Fablab Saigon, the very first of such events in Vietnam. ARDUINO DAY Arduino…
DetailsI can’t help feeling excited when I see the date booked for the screening of the Maker movie. Among events from other countries, there are screenings in America, Europe, Africa and other countries in Asia. For the very first time, this amazing and adequate documentary video is screening in Viet Nam. I helped to translate the movie’s subtitles by…
DetailsLast week, I went to Singapore for my holiday and networking. Therefore, the most unforgettable memory to me is that I had a chance to visit Fabrication Lab (Fab Lab) at Singapore Polytechnic. Fab Lab which was established 2 years ago with purpose to support student to foster their innovation, make their own projects and…
DetailsThis 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…
DetailsLast 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…
DetailsWe met earlier this month and it was our second activity in the compost bin project. The first one was our visit to Anphu Earthworm Farm in Cu Chi. After the trip, we learnt that his earthworm didn’t suit our compost bin and Hoang-Anh, co-founder of the FabLab, has been looking for a new way…
DetailsWe got this printer from 3dmaker.vn. The model is a Prusa i3. We chose it because it’s cheap and we could buy a kit and build it ourselves. We bought it thanks to the prize we won in the NASA Space App challenge. Chiếc máy in model Prusa I3 này được đặt mua tại 3dmaker.vn. Lí do chúng…
DetailsStarting from October 2014, the Fablab is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, from noon to 8pm. Bắt đầu từ tháng 10 2014, fablab sẽ bắt đầu hoạt động hàng tuần vào các ngày 3 – 5 -7, từ 12g trưa đến 8g tối.
DetailsLast 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…
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