Waag Society Fablab Amsterdam

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On the 4th of June, the Fab Lab held its first Sense Kitchen Pressure Cooker session. The theme for this evening was the Snoezel Object.

The idea of the evening was to gather a group of multi disciplined people, such as designers, programmers and allow them to exchange ideas through the process of building a prototype.

We started the evening with a nice meal on the Waag Pakhuis de Zwijger terrace with a couple of beers and then it was straight to the lab.

The following video is a brief registration of the night and what was accomplished in 4 hours.

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The Patch Blanki idea has stemmed from a want to make a snoezel object that is modula in style.

I feel this is a useful way to approach the object as it can cater for a wide range of kids/patients/users. It can also have the possibility of being assembled by the carer specifically for the user. Furthermore the object itself can be used in different ways..... a mat, a blanket or a shelter.

First I'll show my idea's regarding the Patch Blanki as a shelter.........

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The 'Activity Blocks' are one of my firsts attempts at playing with the idea of building a snoezel object.

Initial inspriation for this object, or group of objects, came from the work of Leah Buechley, particuarly her Boda Blocks project......

your can also watch a little movie..... http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/movies/boda_blocks_5_05.mov

In the Boda Block project Leah has rules such as:

if off and = 1 blue neighbor -> blue