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Over the past weeks, I was able to get my hands on and help out on both projects that are co-occurring. While at Metrix working on the blinky bike jacket with Blaine, Thuy, and Paige, Paige had to leave early, so Blaine, Thuy, and I stayed to work on the jacket. Thuy worked on sewing the conductive thread and securing the battery pack and lillypad in place on the jacket. Blaine and I worked on the wiring and I designed some plastic wafers, which were then created with a laser cutter. These were necessary in stabilizing the LED lights since we didn’t have any lillypad LEDs. After wiring the LEDs together, Blaine and I tested them and the blue lights wouldn’t light up, however, they would light up when they were not connected to the other LEDs.
¿Que los dos hablan de Open Source? Puede ser. ¿Que enseñan comunidades muy cercanas en las cuales incluso las mismas personas podrían estar involucradas?
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We teach anyone how to make almost anything The Providence Fab Academy will return for its third year on January 2, 2012 through June 30, 2012. Classes will be held in Providence, RI at AS220 Labs (a personal digital fabrication lab or “Fab Lab”). This year I am coordinating the Providence branch of the Fab Academy and providing local instruction. The Fab Academy is a Digital Fabrication Program directed by Neil Gershenfeld of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms and based on MIT’s rapid prototyping course, MAS 863: How to Make (Almost) Anything. The Fab Academy began as an outreach project from the CBA, and has since spread to Fab Labs around the world.
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Another month is coming to a close so as tradition has it, we provide you with our monthly 3D printing news. It was an interesting month with some fun new 3D printer announcements, the usual amount of Kickstarter projects and loads of fun design challenges. Let’s take a dive into the details… First, let’s have a look at the new 3D printers that were announced this month.Eagle is a great cross-platform, free-for-non-commercial-use tool for many of us designing own own circuit boards. But it has a pretty glaring omission: the ability to import vector artwork to use as board outlines, logos, etc. You can import bitmaps via the finicky “import_bmp.ulp” ULP add-on, but bitmaps can’t work for board outlines. So we struggle with Eagle’s rudimentary vector drawing tools or have boring rectangular or circular boards. I think I’ve found a way to robustly transfer vector artwork from Illustrator to Eagle. Below I show an “amoeba” vector shape in Illustrator being converted and used as a board outline in Eagle.
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Making Society | Adventure in the makers community of San Francisco
A year ago, I was ending my 3 months trip in the Bay Area meeting the makers’ community. Things moved quite fast since then. I worked with the team of Hackable Devices for around 10 months in Paris, moderated my first MakeSense Hold-Up, gave a conference and moderated a brainstorming... So…Here we are…After 89 days of trip in San Francisco and around the Bay Area, it’s time for me to go back to France and continue this adventure in the European makers’ community. I sill have a lot to say and share about what I did here, and I’m sure that I will... After my visit of Make’s offices, I continue my tour of “makers” companies in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
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Release early, often, and w/ rap music. Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more.
German design student Raphael Volkmer ventured south to Italy's Free University Bolzano for his design education. Noting that the average European household consumes over a kilogram (2.2 lbs) of chocolate every Easter, he's created " Calorie Bomb ," a veritable explosion of sugary sweet deliciousness. Like the hand grenade from which it takes its form, the "Calorie Bomb" is a fairly straightforward proposition... though I can't help but wonder if a foil-wrapped version might somehow function like those chocolate oranges that split apart when smashed.
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Imagine that van as a workshop-on-wheels carrying tools, tables, a laser-cutter, 3D printer, and other equipment. Going from school to school teaching kids how to make stuff! That’s what Stanford graduate students Aaron, Eugene, and Jason want to do with SparkLab . And they are soooo close to hitting their $25,000 goal to make it happen.
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The folks at the University of Exeter who were experimenting with 3D printed chocolate that actually tastes good have spun off the technology into a commercial venture, Choc Edge. Their first product, the Choc Creator V1, is now available for pre-order. What is it?CGG | Just another WordPress.com site
El Open hardware y las estrategias contemporáneas de composición musical se vinculan hoy como procesos de creación automática en la música contemporánea. Implementan métodos y conocimientos de la ciencia y de la modelación de comportamientos, como automatas celulares y fractales, que influyen en el despliegue de estrategias de desplazamiento de la subjetividad respecto de lo sonoro y el cómo componer, bajo el paradigma de la representación hacia una lógica basada en los comportamientos. Esta noción de composición y el ejercicio de abstracción, que lleva consigo, se relaciona con otra línea de investigación emergente basada en la pregunta sobre el instrumento personalizado, en el cual tanto la exploración sonora como la construcción del instrumento se vuelven un fin en sí mismos.Who are you? Nesta is an independent charity with a mission to help people and organisations bring great ideas to life. We do this by providing investments and grants and mobilising research, networks and skills.
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El 2º Encuentro de Circuitos Electrónicos Open Hardware y DIY tiene el objetivo de congregar físicamente a personas, colectivos y agrupaciones interdisciplinarias amparadas en el paradigma Open Source y la Cultura Libre, reuniendo diversos saberes y conocimientos que relacionan a las artes visuales, la música, el diseño, la tecnología, la ingeniería, el reciclaje, etc. Este encuentro se basa en el intercambio de experiencias de desarrollo de proyectos concretos, realizados anteriormente por los participantes, estableciendo vínculos para el trabajo colaborativo, la creatividad, el autoaprendizaje y la autonomía de los conocimientos en la comunidad. Constituye una apuesta por cambiar el modelo de aprendizaje de las herramientas open source, proponiendo un formato de participación distinto a los talleres y charlas, donde los conocimientos se entregan de manera lineal y unidireccional a los asistentes.
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Tell us about yourself. My name is Joe Bagley, I’m 26, and I am a paper artist. I grew up in the woods of Maine and now live in Boston with my wife. I work out of my home studio in my Beantown flat. I take pieces of black paper and cut lots of holes in them with a knife. It’s really cool, I swear!