As the third and final week our class spent at the CU Fab Lab, we students were divided into 3 groups and explored Arduino, Digital Embroidery, and Laser Cutting respectively. I am going to skip the description of procedures since Andrew already covered those in his Week 6 summary. Instead, I am going to present some of my classmates’ work/creations and provides some extra resources and personal thinking about each technology.
Arduino
by Harina Jayswal 
by Abhi Mahendrakar
This is a YouTube video about “How to Program an Arduino”, and you can also find tons of resources about Arduino programming at this online learning community https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/HomePage
Digital Embroidery
image by Lois Holman
Digital Embroidery is such a efficient tool to realize simple designs mainly for aesthetic purposes. As we designed and printed our own clothing patches, it is clear how this technology helps to achieve affordable individuation. But I can’t stop wondering how this technology would influence embroidery art, which is indeed an intangible cultural heritage. Currently, thousands of people in Asia and some ancient tribes make livings by selling hand-made embroidery artworks. And it usually takes them days to complete one small piece because embroidery by nature is very time-consuming and requires a lot of inspiration and artistic talent. Digital Embroidery technology, is massively applied in production, will cause the price of embroidery artwork to steep decline and even cause the extinction of embroidery art.
image from baidu.com
image from baidu.com
Laser Cutting
by Paige Lee 
by Jin Ran
Here is an article about Laser Cutting techniques and projects http://makezine.com/2013/10/23/tutorial-laser-cutting-techniques-and-projects/. Like Digital Embroidery, Laser Cutting technology is more useful in serving aesthetic purpose as of right now. We as students and digitalmakers should definitely explore more of its functionality.