A Passport for the maker network.

Passeport Maker de OpenFab Brussels est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution - Partage dans les Mêmes Conditions 4.0 International. Fondé(e) sur une œuvre à https://noisebridge.net/wiki/Passport.

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As a founder and fabmanager of the Fablab OpenFab in Brussels, Ixelles. I'm challenged everyday on subject like:

• how manage members of the labs and how to optimise the flow through tools and tutorials, from the beginning (subscribing) to the end of a project (realisation).
• How to engage people into habits of documenting their progress and hlp them to share knowledge?
• How to propose a clear framework?

At the beginning:

The passport was made to
* promote people visiting as many hackerspaces around the world
* increase collaboration
* increase cross-pollination so we can all learn from one another
* encourage all hackerspaces to support each other
(And it's fun)

It's been a while since I discovered the hackerspace passport but it was not enought for me. It's fun to have stamp from communities and events but then... This not solve the problem we face everyday.

So why not adding some extra page on it?

It could be use as:

• A pass to access occasionally other makerspaces and Fablabs without to pay an other membership. One PASS to rules them all Like Copass for coworking
• This is your maker ID
• This could be your CV with:
  • List all the skills/badges
  • List all your WIP (WorkInProgress) and last projects
• Contain your best cheatsheets
• Could be a pocket lamp, yeah, why not a pcb cover with led.
• It grow with you
• And can embed RFID for advance connectivity
  • like Automatic activation of tools via log rfid
  • logging time spent on tools
  • check-in into makerspaces
• And many more possibilities...

These functions will come with some challenges, of course. But we will discover them and resolved them only by doing it and using it.

Actually, I use it everyday and show it to everybody. It's part of a bigger plan, a bigger WIP, a gamification of the fablab sorry, still mostly in french

see also the process in first development notes

How to MAKE it

software in use

• inkscape for vector http://inkscape.org/
• scribus for book layout https://www.scribus.net/

You'll need:

• 1 binding screw (also book screw). *I use M5x6mm source
• material for cover. *I use polypropylène 0.8mm (PP)
• Paper A4 to print pages. Any gr/m² could do. *I use simple 80gr/m²
• scissors, cutter or even better a trimmer. *I use this
• And a hole punch.

Step 1

LasetCut the cover in the material of your choice
Template SVG is Cover-laserCut-PP.svg

Step 2

• Open /00template/PageSet1.pdf and fill in your name, photo and shit.
• Print it on A4 without scaling....
• Print PageSetCredit.svg, still without scaling....
• and also a couple of times PageSetFocusList.svg and PageSetProtostep1.svg Too

Step 3

• Cut pages to keep 2 pages side by side.
• Use the punch, place paper to match the pinkish cursor and make a hole
• Finish to cut pages.

Step 4

• Assemble everythings.

note: use a bit of Ptfe Thread Sealling Tape to avoid loose screw.

THAT'S IT!

Now, go make something else!