Jon Santiago's Page
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- Your Project's Name:
- SSBx FabLab
- Your Project's Homepage:
- http://www.ssbxfab.org
- Contact Information (Address, Phone Number, etc.)
- 890 Garrision Ave, 4th Floor
Bronx, NY 10474
17186174668
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- http://twitter.com/jonsantiago
- A little bit about you and your project:
- The South Bronx community suffers from environmental degradation, crippling poverty, endemic public health problems, and low educational aspirations among its youth. Sustainable South Bronx seeks to inspire area residents to demonstrate their own strength and vision by helping to create a more livable, breathable, and vibrant community from the grassroots level up.
SSBx is partnering with MIT to bring a FabLab (Fabrication Laboratory) to the South Bronx. FabLab is an international project started at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms , aiming to bring “digital fabrication”, the modern means of production, to ordinary people for solving community problems. Ideas are conceived and designed in the digital world, and can be realized in the physical world through the FabLab. Equally as important, these ideas, designs, and schematics can be shared digitally through the international FabLab network as a kind of “Open Source Hardware.”
The SSBxFab project is coordinated by Jon Santiago, a staff member of Sustainable South Bronx. Jon has a B.S. in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); where he worked under Professor Neil Gershenfeld as an undergraduate research assistant in the Center for Bits and Atoms, the cross-campus interdisciplinary research consortium that began the international FabLab program. Exposed to a diverse research environment that brought together computer scientists, electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists, Jon grew an appreciation not only for science and engineering, but also the sharing and collaboration that is at the heart of the FabLab project.
Jon Santiago's Blog
SSBxFab continues pilot phase
Sustainable South Bronx has continued initial community outreach and project incubation during the pilot phase our FabLab initiative. Although the 32 ' x 8' trailer that houses all the machines limits the scale of programming we can do, it has allowed us to prepare our organizational infrastructure and develop a strategic plan for Phase 2, where we'll have a permanent space for the equipment, as well as adequate classroom space.
SSBx is currently on a fundraising campaign for both capital equip… Continue
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Posted on August 15, 2008 at 10:08am —
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