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This workshop provides a practical introduction to using a laser cutter as a tool for digital fabrication. After an overview of the machine’s functionality, applications, and safety requirements, participants learn how to create and prepare digital designs for laser cutting. Using vector-based design software, participants create cutting and engraving files before transferring them to the laser cutter and producing their own projects. Alongside the technical fundamentals, the workshop emphasizes creative problem-solving and hands-on experience with modern manufacturing technologies. Participants explore how laser cutting can be applied in areas such as rapid prototyping, product design, education, and customized manufacturing. Example projects include: • Creating a personalized keychain • Designing a custom wood engraving • Manufacturing a small component or prototype • Developing a simple interlocking construction kit

Target: Other

Explore how everyday ingredients and waste can be transformed into sustainable, biodegradable materials. In this hands-on module, students experiment with creating new biomaterials, reusing organic and non-organic leftovers, and discovering the potential of fungi-based, thermochromic, and UV-reactive materials. This module introduces students to basic material properties, recycling, recyclability, and the potential of innovative and smart materials. By reprocessing plastic caps into a new recycled material and demonstrating materials that respond to heat, light/UV or other stimuli (thermochromic, photoactive, shape-memory, heat-shrink), students learn that a material is not just 'what an object is made of' — it shapes a product's function, appearance, safety, durability and sustainability.

Target: Unprivileged

A digital delivery of the SAME design thinking methodology as Module 1, through the DiSTT app (distt.dfa.fablab.hr — a DiSTT-adapted version of dfa-app). Instead of a blank page, AI generates a small fictional community of three stakeholders (a craftsperson, an employee in retraining, a secondary student), each with their own story and problem. The user interviews them through chat and, across 5 short phases, defines the problem, designs a solution and tests it back on them — independently, with no physical material, in short repeatable sessions (e.g. 10 minutes over morning coffee). The goal is not a one-off workshop but building a habit of thinking through repetition (a 3/7/30-day streak system). Actual time depends on personal abailities and short with practice!

Target: Unprivileged