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Fab Lab – The Machines

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Re: Fab Lab – The Machines

#21
Nicely done, OP! Have you considered making an app so it is simple to create new tests?

The interactive nature of this is great, and it's widely applicable. Beyond being wonderful for students, adaptations of this would be great for employee training on the factory floor. Every hackerspace would benefit from a system like this to qualify members for access to capital equipment.

Re: Fab Lab – The Machines

#25

Honestly, I would pay for a website like this but with even more stuff. English is my second language, but I currently reside in an English speaking country, and sometimes when I need something specific for some machine, car, dryer etc. I have to spend just too much time trying to learn names of parts needed to fix stuff.

I made a (free) site pretty similar to what you describe: https://www.takeitapart.com TakeItApart lets anyone can see or share annotated photo-based disassembly guides, to find part numbers, names, and required tools. We're tying to make the website the community-contributed disassembly encyclopedia of the web--so anyone can take things apart, virtually, without picking up a screwdriver. It's also super easy to add a…

That's really cool! Bookmarked.

Re: Fab Lab – The Machines

#26

Nicely done, OP! Have you considered making an app so it is simple to create new tests? The interactive nature of this is great, and it's widely applicable. Beyond being wonderful for students, adaptations of this would be great for employee training on the factory floor. Every hackerspace would benefit from a system like this to qualify members for access to capital equipment.

I haven't before, but I just might now. It was a real pain for me to add those machines that are there now, I did it all manually by checking how far parts were from the top left of the image. I probably could have came up with a way to add parts to an image by clicking on it... oh well.

Re: Fab Lab – The Machines

#27
post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How long ago did you make this? The design style is fairly current (in my opinion), you may have designing on the cutting edge. Great work, you should develop this into a Clever app.

I started summer of 2013 and was using Bootstrap 2.3. And I've never seen Clever before, do schools have to sign up to it or how does it work?

So maybe not so cutting edge, but that's ok.

Yes, schools have to sign up to Clever. I'm sure many people develop math, science and english applications, but probably very few develop wood shop applications.

Re: Fab Lab – The Machines

#28
Love it. Would be great if you included cutting speeds and lubricants for different materials. Great (and low-conflict) way to quickly qualify new people for machines at Makerspaces.

Re: Fab Lab – The Machines

#29
post #22

Cute. For the 19th century version, see "Catechism of the Locomotive", from 1877. https://archive.org/details/cu31924031173549

That's a great book, thankyou for telling me about it - these links, to interesting knowledge that I wouldn't discover on my own, are the best part of hn.
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