The Tabletop Makerspace: A Portable Low-Cost Personal Fabrication Toolkit

This project will be a collaboration between the School of Interactive Arts at Simon Fraser University and Science World in Vancouver, British Columbia. A portable low-cost set of tools will be assembled to support “maker” activities, educational do-it-yourself building project that use electronics and personal fabrication technology. Personal fabrication technology refers to a new generation of desktop sized fabrication machines that create physical objects from computer files. The toolkit will be used to conduct workshops with the Future Science Leaders program at Science World. FSL is

a science enrichment program for high school students. Workshops will be used to collect data on the use of personal fabrication technology.

Faculty Supervisor:

Bernhard Riecke

Student:

Partner:

Science World

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University