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  • Takeout 2.3 update

    Takeout 2.3 update

    A set of small improvements and fixes: As is the custom, fixes sometimes introduce bugs or other undesired behaviour; contact us at webstudio@aalto.fi for feedback. Known issues Visit Takeout See for yourself at https://takeout.aalto.fi More information See Takeout User Guide for the backstory and help.

  • Takeout 2.2 update

    Takeout 2.2 update

    We cleaned up and fixed a lot of little details around the app and made the mobile experience better. Improvements include: As is the custom, fixes sometimes introduce bugs or other undesired behaviour; contact us at webstudio@aalto.fi for feedback. Visit Takeout See for yourself at https://takeout.aalto.fi More information See Takeout User Guide for the backstory…

  • Takeout to use email based sign-in

    Takeout to use email based sign-in

    In early February, we’ll switch from using Aalto University SSO as the primary authentication method to using magic links, where we send you a sign-in link in the email. This brings a number of benefits: We’re expecting a maintenance break in the afternoon of Tuesday Feb 11th to make the necessary changes. For more, contact…

  • Mediaspace Open Day on Podcast Production and new VR Hub goodness

    Mediaspace Open Day on Podcast Production and new VR Hub goodness

    Join us for an afternoon of learning about services and resources we provide to all Aalto University. On Thursday 8.12 at 14.00, we have these two topics on the menu: Podcast Production Interested in creating a podcast for a course, or a project ? Podcast production at Aalto University can take many paths, each with…

  • Finalizing the “FABLABs – new technologies in adult education” Project

    Finalizing the “FABLABs – new technologies in adult education” Project

    We are happy to announce the “FABLABs – new technologies in adult education” project is complete, and we are ready to share the results. The 34-month-long project was a collaboration between FabLabs from various European countries. It looked at the theories and practices of adult learning built on the FabLab concept. The project brought together…

  • Riegl VZ-400i environmental 3D scanner full-day training session

    Riegl VZ-400i environmental 3D scanner full-day training session

    Time: Tuesday 3.5.2022 | 09:00-16/16:30  Place: Aalto Fablab | Otakaari 7, Espoo  Aalto Fablab is hosting a full-day training session where you can learn how to use the Riegl VZ-400i environmental 3D scanner. Register here for the training session. Program: General use of the equipment Use of the scanner work in field measurements RiScan Pro…

  • Fablab user questionnaire prize time!

    Fablab user questionnaire prize time!

    The Aalto Fablab here at Aalto Studios asked their users how they in particular utilize the Fablab and what kind of improvements they’d like to see. For those efforts, a lucky few also received a prize. Congrats to the winners! See this video for the drawing of the lots and the big reveal: https://fb.watch/cDvXNvegwp/ For…

  • Celebrating a Decade of Aalto Fablab

    Celebrating a Decade of Aalto Fablab

    Aalto Fablab celebrates 10 years of innovation, participation, digital manufacturing, and creation with an exhibition and a birthday fiesta on the second half of November 2021! Exhibition The Digital Fabrication Showcase 2021 exhibition will display the work that has been produced in and with Aalto Fablab during the past years. It is going to take…

  • Self Service Studio gets new look and feel!

    Self Service Studio gets new look and feel!

    The renovated Self Service Studio is as a low-threshold digital teaching space for all Aalto University users. Record a lecture or a seminar talk, or conduct an interview in this quiet and professional environment. Something old, plenty new The studio includes everything you need for shooting high-quality video. The robot camera can be adjusted to…

  • Relaxing entertainment for zoo monkeys

    Relaxing entertainment for zoo monkeys

    Scientists from Aalto University, in collaboration with Korkeasaari Zoo, have designed and built an on-demand video device for white-faced saki monkeys to activate as and when they like. The actual device was developed and built in Aalto Studios Fablab. The device, a tunnel built of plywood and acrylic and equipped with a monitor, camera and…

  • Aalto Fablab selected in FURNISH Open Call

    Aalto Fablab selected in FURNISH Open Call

    Aalto Fablab’s NOT-19 is one of the four teams selected to participate in the FURNISH (Fast Urban Responses for New Inclusive Spaces & Habitat) project. The goal of the project is to digitally fabricate and deploy urban elements to adapt temporary public spaces to meet the new challenges and opportunities presented by the COVID-19 crisis. …

  • Master your local Makerspace – Join Fab Academy 2020 at the Aalto Fablab

    Master your local Makerspace – Join Fab Academy 2020 at the Aalto Fablab

    Have you seen them? They are growing in numbers all around the world; spaces for making (almost) anything using computer aided design, digital fabrication, electronics and programming. There might be one in your neighborhood, or in your organization. Whether you’re a user or a manager of a makerspace, there’s always so much to learn. What…

  • ERASMUS+ funding for FABLABs – New Technologies in Adult Education

    ERASMUS+ funding for FABLABs – New Technologies in Adult Education

    The Aalto Fablab here at Aalto Studios is a partner in a new project “FABLABs – New Technologies in Adult Education”, joining Fablab peers from Poland, France, Portugal and Iceland. Coordination is handled by Warsztaty Kultury W Lublinie in Poland, the two year effort starting in November 2019 supported by funding from the Erasmus+ programme.…

  • FabLab helps startup test product

    FabLab helps startup test product

    The future has arrived – that’s what could be rightfully said about 3D printing and its effect on human lives. As you’re reading this, 3D printers are creating new shapes and consequently shaping our future. In FabLab basement at Otakaari 7, students are able to be a part of this future and on the 4th…

  • Aalto Studios makes collaboration possible

    Aalto Studios makes collaboration possible

    At Aalto studios at Otakaari 7 students from four different backgrounds are working together to make technology, the body, and cloth work together in harmony. The course is called “Wearable Electronics” and is based on collaboration between costume design, sound design, lighting design, and choreography and is bringing Aalto ARTS and University of the Arts…

  • Digital Fabrication Studio

    Digital Fabrication Studio

    Digital Fabrication Studio is a course with a focus on rapid prototyping tools such as laser cutters, 3D printers, and CNC routers. Through the course, students are able to learn the fundamentals of digital fabrication. During this one-month intensive course, the attendees will learn what the FabLab is, what tools are available and how to…

  • Aalto Fablab is open!

    Aalto Fablab is open!

    We are excited to announce that Aalto Fablab has reopened its doors. The lab packed up its machinery at Harald Herlin Learning Center, and created a new lab at Otakaari 7C. The lab entrance is on the bottom floor on the south side of the building. At Fablab, anyone can prototype and experiment by using…

  • Production design students feature in National Museum exhibit

    Production design students feature in National Museum exhibit

    Last week, Faces 1918 opened at the National Museum in Helsinki, featuring portraits from 100 years ago, reflecting everyday life through portraiture during the ongoing tension the Finnish Civil War. To complement and provide context for this era, production design students from Aalto University designed and produced a handful of exhibits showing the strife of living…

  • Students from Aalto Media Lab to present interactive projects at Kallio Stage

    Students from Aalto Media Lab to present interactive projects at Kallio Stage

    MA students in New Media will present work they created at the Aalto Fablab on Thursday, December 7th at Aalto Studios’ Kallio Stage. The presentations will begin at 19.00. In the course, Physical Interaction Design, students were challenged to “reimagine how [they] interact with the physical world,” according to participating first-year MA student Shreyasi Kar. The course…

  • FabLab at the Espoo Mini Maker Faire

    FabLab at the Espoo Mini Maker Faire

    Last month, our Fab Lab helped organize and participated in the third annual Espoo Mini Maker Faire in collaboration with Wärk Ry and Iso Omena Library. The event took place at Iso Omena Library and attracted over 400 creators, young and old, who spent the day learning and playing with technologies ranging from DIY crafts, electronics,…

  • Multi-Cam Productions with Cinema Cameras

    Multi-Cam Productions with Cinema Cameras

    Aalto Studios is happy to announce the newest addition to our production gear, a 4K rack for our Arri Amira cameras. Due to this investment, we are the first in Finland to enable multi-camera productions with high-end cinema cameras. The flight case rack includes all the equipment needed in multi-camera productions. ”The whole production can now…

  • Espoo Mini Maker Faire Coming Up!

    Espoo Mini Maker Faire Coming Up!

    Final preparations, posters printing as our Fablab is participating in the Espoo Mini Maker Faire this weekend 13.-14.10 at Iso Omena in Espoo. From their site: “Espoo Mini Maker Faire is a family-friendly festival of science, art and technology. Maker Faires bring together hobbyists, engineers, hackers, artists, students and enthusiasts of all ages. A maker…

  • Mini Maker Faire Calling for Makers!

    Mini Maker Faire Calling for Makers!

    Our Aalto FabLab is organising Espoo Mini Maker Faire together with Wärk Ry and Iso Omena library 13.-14.10.2017. The event is open for everybody. If you want to showcase your work or just see what others have come up with this is the place. The Faire is still calling for makers! Submit your idea by…

  • Harald Herlin Learning Centre joins Aalto Takeout

    Harald Herlin Learning Centre joins Aalto Takeout

    Aalto Takeout, the centralized equipment lending service developed at Aalto Studios originally to manage our own equipment, adds a new member location. We welcome the Harald Herlin Learning Centre, who will be adding iPads and other resources for pickup at the info desk.