Stiff

This morning we started off at a convenient 9.30... because people just keep on working at the lab, they go to bed really late and naturally we have to start later. Just how i like it really...

After breakfast we set down at one of the big tables in the lab, and had an introduction by Haakon (head of fablab, farmer, construction- and electronics-specialist and just general real-nice-person) and after that Neal spoke some time about fablabs and what they are about. We then all did a proper introduction of ourselves and when the time for questions came, Bas (my colleague from the Waag) suddenly came up with this idea to make a sort of 'modular house' with integrated power supply and network. This was received with so much enthusiasm, that we are now part of the 'stiff' team... 'Space, the final frontier' (yeah i know...).

We are already designing the way it should look and work (working with wood here, we are not going to use any steel, no bolts or whatsoever) and have have just picked up some lexan (don't know if the spelling is right, it's a sort of layered thin plexi) to use for tests with some light.

Yesterday, before we went to bed, we had a talk with two of the guys already working here (and they showed us the shopbot, talk about your cool tool). They were really surprised on the issue we had with the laser cutter back in Holland. They completely agreed that brand of cutter is not an issue, and for the matter of software compatibility, they said 'making sure that it is compatible is part of the fablab!' and they sort of laughed about the whole thing...

So for now i'll continue on our design rules of the house we are going to build (of which i'll tell more later on).
By the way, we had a nice walk in the snow, but no polar light yet, for it's clouded...