Tools & resources

Here you can find a selected group of tools and resources to help you on your tech journey

A selection of tools available to you on MIRO

In the technology frame in this MIRO board, you can find templates to four groups of tools. You can copy the templates and explore the resources with your team.

The Food Tech 3.0 MIRO templates include support for innovators in the areas of community, technology, and business. All of the activities can be adapted for different types of innovators and makers.

💡 Tool set 1: Planning your tech intervention

This tool is frequently used by the Fab Lab team for the development of the Smart Citizen Kit and more. The tool should help you forecast what you want to do (plan), then what you develop, then what you test and bring you back to the next iteration of planning.

🧰 Tool set 2: Exploring the tools that drive your tech

Here you can find a series of links to open source videos on how to use different tools that you can find in a Fab Lab. These videos can help you understand which tools to use for your intervention and how to use them.

🔮 Tool set 3: Smart Citizen Kit

The Smart Citizen Kit can be leveraged to help you forward your food technology initiative in many different ways. It has sensors for temperature, light, humidity, particulate matter in the air and can be outfitted with additional sensors for other types of interventions.

The Smart Citizen Kit is also accompanied by a methodology on community-based interventions that can prove a useful guide to how to create tech by and with communities. Data from the Smart Citizen Kit can be shared open source on the Smart Citizen platform, enabling communities to share data and compare themselves to other environments.

Lastly, the Grow Observatory platform can further show how to use the Smart Citizen Kit to grow food. The platform connects you to other 'growing' communities across Europe.

ℹ️ Tool set 4: Fab Lab Barcelona Repository

The Fab Lab Barcelona Repository on Github is where we openly store projects and artefacts that we develop at Fab Lab Barcelona. In the repository, you can find everything from a soil moisture sensor to a solar charger and information on the Distributed Design Platform website.

🌳 Tools set 5: the Distributed Design Platform Reflection Tree

The Distributed Design Platform Reflection Tree is meant to help you reflect on where your project is on its journey to becoming Distributed Design. The Tree is meant to encourage creatives to think about your work at different stages of development and inspire you to continue connecting to the Distributed Design values: open, collaborate, regenerate, and ecosystemic. You can learn more about the Reflection Tree in this blog post and directly access the public MIRO board template by clicking here.