Doblo/Lugo factory

Doblo Factory is the name of a set of OpenScad modules we initially wrote in 2010 to generate LEGO and DUPLO compatible structures and bricks. You can create all sorts of simple LEGO bricks, but also full castles. A much improved version was made by Daniel Tab and it is available from GitHub

LEGO for PhD projects

Modular castle kit - Lego compatible

A set of "Blocks" that can be assembled into a large medieval castle, Lego size. I made this version in 2012. A better more ergonomic new version was made in 2013, but I didn't have time to finish testing and printing.

Door stopper

To keep your door open when there is wind. Several people at TECFA use one of these. The blocks can be customized with lettering (I use Netfabb Pro for that). The one in picture was made in 2010 with a Rapman printer. Back then I did like Thingiverse.

Office BreakTime Kit (OBTK)

The OBTK (Office Breaktime Kit) provides you with a construction toolkit that will turn idle time into a break that will improve productivity right after. It also allows organizing social activities and it therefore can contribute to team building if that is permitted and/or feasible under cover in your organization. You also can encourage trading and competition: Who can come up with a new toy / engine / exhibit or design a sliding game (tip: use whiteboard markers on your desk) ? Finally, squezzy elements can be used to prevent wrist tendinitis.

From six simple elements, people at your workplace can assemble various devices like spinning tops, table curling stones, bowling balls and pins, yoyos, wheels of fortune, racing cars, and more. Alternatively, they also could create stunning works of art (e.g. a black apple sandwich with a raspberry filling). This kit is also suitable for kids of an age where they stop swallowing little sticks.

This kit could be useful to teach basic principles of construction kit creation, e.g. affordances, expressiveness, richness. Also, it shows basic use of the OpenSCAD 3d programming language. Construction kit

Conference embroidery

The term conference embroidery or embroidered conference wear refers to one kind of Academic embroidery wear. Conference embroidery can: display figures and diagrams, turn a person into some kind of walking poster, make strong statements, and display logos of favorite projects, software, your organization etc.
(Citing myself here, 2011)

Hypeosaure

Hypeosaurs are hybrids from supersaurus (long necks, flower eating) and theropods (bi-pedal, people eating). They allow visualizing hype cycles and can be made with a laser cutter. This "artistic visualization" project allows allows showing that development in educational technology is cyclic. The mouth of one can eat the tail of another ("cela se mord la queue")

Machine embroidery for change

Computer-assisted embroidery is probably the oldest fully working "making" technology. Its industrial origin goes back to the 19th century where machines were driven by puch cards and tapes. Machine embroidery is an excellent medium for learning image manipulation, vector drawing and physical constraints in design. Embroidery can be used for craftivism, i.e activism expressed through art. The picture shows the "stitching" of a Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) wheel on a fleece jacket using an embroidery machine in my office.