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PROJECTS
Find a projects’ selection realised by our makers or for companies at Fablab Descartes, as well as tutorials.
Production of the Lépinoc device second version, operated by Noé, for the automated monitoring of moths by light trap and photographic capture. We improved the 2021 version we made.
- R&D, 3D printing, laser cutting, welding and manual assembly of 16 devices
Production of professional trophies, for CPME77, for the 13th departmental mini-business fair in Seine-et-Marne, on 5 April 2022.
Companions from different trades, from all over France, took part in a workshop. The objective: to complete their training by discovering digital manufacturing. At the end of the week’s training, they produced an object using our tools and machines, on the imposed theme of jars.
Pinball machine with glass yoghurt jars as ball receptacles.
Florent Di Bartolo, Lecturer in Digital Arts and Technologies at Université Gustave Eiffel, regularly produces materials for art projects.
At the beginning of 2022, he exhibited the engravings on plexiglass made in the Fablab: he recreated a 3D shape from the accumulation of lines of different thicknesses on plates placed one on top of the other. La Grande Accélération (Conservatoire à Rayonnement Départemental, Orsay) is a visual and sound installation on the evolution of the melting ice. It offers a sensitive experience of climate change.
With the support of: Université Paris-Saclay, Diagonale Paris-Saclay, Scène de recherche de l’ENS Paris-Saclay and Fablab Descartes.
Musical composition: Xavier Hautbois
Companions from different trades, from all over France, took part in a workshop. The objective: to complete their training by discovering digital manufacturing. At the end of the week’s training, they produced an object using our tools and machines, on the imposed theme of jars.
Decorative rack for the storage of dry goods.
Wooden toys: small wooden characters and decorative elements made with a milling machine for Atelier Gabrielle.
Smoothie bikes: installation of a blender drive system on bikes, in partnership with Torcy’s Vélostation.
Pedalling makes the blender work, so you can mix fruit for a smoothie. Device regularly used by the Vélostation during events.
Trophies imagined and made by Fablab Descartes, in spruce wood for the Oxy’Trail 2019 race. Three sizes of trophies, 100 copies made in all.
Manufacture of a decorative panel in wood veneer marquetry for the Dojonami sports club (the Wave Dojo), inspired by the famous work of the Japanese painter Hokusai.
Cutting out an electric guitar template in order to make the musical instrument.
2nd lutherie project made by Gérard Jumelin at the Fablab’s!
This baritone ukulele size guitar, with a resonator, was partly made with our digital milling machine (for the body, made of bamboo cutting boards) and laser cutter (for the resonator cover).
Tuning of a standard guitar, minus the 2 low strings and steel string, for a typical banjo blues sound!
Decorative elements, “iris-opening tables”, made by Gamescape, for its escape game sets in Paris.
Prototype anti-pollution mask developed by Le Mask Français, a start-up incubated at Incubateur Descartes.
Models of four buildings in the town of Montévrain (77) made for and with the Children’s Town Council.
Plexiglas, led strips and wood.
Trophies produced for the Mini-Entreprises trade fair organised by Seine-et-Marne Attractivité.
Cutting and assembly of an architectural model of a boat.
Electronic game board to work on motor skills. Designed and produced by the participants of the eFabrik programme.
eFabrik involves young people and people with disabilities. Together, they imagine a solution to a disability’s discomfort by learning how to use digital manufacturing tools and locations.
Wooden desk created with a digital milling machine.
Example of a bollard made during the Arcade Bollard workshop.