Ada lovelace « Search Results. Wearable Tech Roundup. This is has been quite a busy week for wearable technology filled with speculation around the future of wearable technology and ultimately the impact it will have on our lives and how we inhabit the world. Manisha Mohan, a young woman studying aeronautical engineering at SRM University in Chennai, India has developed a product called SHE (Society Harnessing Equipment) in response to the recent escalation in female violence in India – most notably the Delhi gang rape of December 2012. The product, which is still in development stage, is designed to help other young women living in India fight against rape and violence in their country.
Together with fellow students Niladhri Basu Bal and Rimpi Tripathi they developed a bra which shocks an attacker at 3800kv. This project and the creators are inspiring and illustrates the need for the development of wearable technology throughout the world. And something a little light hearted and slightly intriguing developed by Durex called Fundawear. Mixee Labs: make your own 3d printed model a reality! The Rise of the Female Hardware Entrepreneur #makerbusiness. The Rise of Feminist Hackerspaces and How to Make Your Own, by Liz Henry. Six months ago, we decided to make a feminist hackerspace in San Francisco. Today, Double Union is a women-centered hackerspace with 80 members. This happened incredibly fast! Our space has tables and workbenches, couches and chairs, a library of technical reference and how-to books, electronics supplies, and a growing collection of art, craft and technical tools.
It's home-like, well-lit and clean. We’re building furniture, drawing, making zines and coding. We’d like to build spaces without harassment, without having to worry about jerks, and more ambitiously, with active encouragement to explore. It's very exciting. So How Did We Start Double Union? Several of us who started Double Union knew each other from women-in-tech mailing lists, from geekfeminism.org and its online hangouts, from The Ada Initiative, the Anarchafeminist Hacker Hive, and from conferences like AdaCamp. Soooo annoyed That's what we fight at tech conferences too. "I went to Noisebridge…. Patterns help us strategize. What Does it Mean to be a Woman Hackerspace Member? At Mothership HackerMoms, the Freedom to Be Empowered. Mothership HackerMoms is the first-ever hackerspace devoted to mothers and their children. Going beyond computers and programming, this community taps into the basic philosophy of hacking, explains Lisha Sterling, a professional software programmer, specializing in education and technology, and activist for alternative and experimental education.
Hacking means taking control, together, of our environment, our culture, and our lives. At MotherShip Hackermoms, this also means never having to leave the kids behind. It is well known that mothers in the US often find themselves isolated during the first years of their children’s lives. If a woman works outside the home she may feel like she has spent enough time away from her children and needs to devote the rest of her time to them.
"Our children learn by watching us. " The fact of the matter is that most hackerspaces, no matter how inclusive, simply were never designed with children in mind. Hacking: A culture of diversity and empowerment. Ald.
Jeudi 15 novembre | Kinect, robot, machine à coudre, streaming, oscilloscope, art numérique, 3D, découpe laser… on a parlé de tout ça et bien plus encore à l’OPENatelier d’hier : récap en texte, en code, et en images ! Guigui a testé Pure Data vs Kinect, petit bout de code : pd-extended avec apt-get à ajouter ds /etc/apt/sources.list # Debian/stable deb stable main # Debian/testing #deb testing main Fred Naud qui fait partie du mouvement d’activistes culturels ArtCode attack (exposition d’art numérique contagieuse) a présenté la démarche du collectif : envahir les rues de votre ville ou de votre village, avec des oeuvres d’art sous forme de bombes culturelles… Pour cela ils cherchent à créer des brigades locales, sur Nantes pour l’instant il y a une brigade d’étudiants d’Audencia. Ils travaillent beaucoup sur les applications mobiles donc ils cherchent des artistes pour diffuser leurs travaux avec des QRcodes disséminés dans la rue. Reagle. Mentoring Girls to Make: Lessons from Techbridge | Makerspace.
Lyn Gomes, mechanical engineer and avid Maker, discusses how a hairdryer works with students in a Techbridge after-school program. Today we share a post by Linda Kekelis of Techbridge. Techbridge role model, Lyn Gomes, experienced the joy of tinkering from her early maker experiences. Lacking her own tool kit, she would “borrow” her father’s eyeglass screwdrivers to repair the answering machine. This gave her the confidence to work with larger tools and take on projects like repairing her first car and building a Motorized Barcalounger.
What she didn’t know is how they would shape the direction of her life. Maker projects set her on the path to finding a career that has provided her with a lifetime of personal and professional rewards. Like Lyn, many engineers describe tinkering and taking things apart when they recount their earliest interest in their field. Missed opportunities Unfortunately, many kids don’t have the chance to tinker at home or work with tools in machine shop classes. I'm Limor Fried, and This Is How I Work. Dans le berceau du hacking. Mothership HackerMoms est un hackerspace d'un genre nouveau : ils accueillent les mamans et enfants, y compris des bébés. De quoi redonner du baume au cœur à celles qui se désespèrent à l'idée de mettre une croix sur leur vie créative les premières années de la vie de leur enfant. Crèche, nom féminin, XXe siècle : lieu d’accueil pour enfants, âgés de deux ou trois mois jusqu’à 3 ou 4 ans dans un cadre spécialement conçu pour les tout-petits.
[Source Wikipedia]Mothership HackerMoms, nom masculin, XXIe siècle : hackerspace-crèche accueillant des mamans ET leurs enfants. Elles peuvent s’adonner à la bidouille créative au son des gazouillis des marmots. [Source Owni] Créée en 2011 en Californie, Mothership HackerMoms (MSHM) n’a pas déquivalent. Sho Sho Smith revient sur ses origines, dans un contexte douloureux : J’ai commencé HackerMoms l’année dernière quand mon mari était soigné pour un cancer et que je venais d’accoucher de mon second enfant. Sortir de l’isolement “Fem-mom-ists” Ladies Learning Code. Dones i noves tecnologies > codi lela. Geek Girl Camp. Lovelace– The Origin | 2D Goggles. This brief biographical sketch was done for Ada Lovelace Day 2009. I think I in was a pub at the time. From a humble beginning as a joke in a pub, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage is now an Eisner-nominated graphic novel!
New York Times Bestseller and winner of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Neumann Prize! For more on Ada Lovelace not in the form of a comic book, an excellent in-depth summation of Lovelace and Babbage’s work can be found at Steven Wolfram’s blog. Read More About Charles Babbage. Charles Babbage would totally have become a street-music destroying Masked Avenger if he could have. Actually he kind of did. For more on the Analytical Engine, I have some animations and visualisations of it here. For the hardcore: Ada Lovelace’s Paper on the Analytical Engine (are you HARD ENOUGH?) Charles Babbage’s Autobiography (awesome, hilarious, fascinating, with VOLCANOES and MATH, why is this not in print?!?) Blog de LelaCoders. 141550. AdLIB2.0 | Lauren Britton Smedley: practices spontaneous librarianship. Lover of web 2.0+ tech. Engaged in transliteracy development.
Online | What Does it Mean to be a Woman Hackerspace Member? I wasn’t sure what the answer to that question might be, so I interviewed seven female hackerspace members (actually, one is an ex-member) to get their take on what it’s like. Leave a comment with your (constructive) thoughts! Note: All photos in this article were taken by Anne Petersen at Pumping Station: One and used with permission. These photos and others may be viewed at Anne’s PS: One Flickr set. John Baichtal: Why are you a hackerspace member? Astera, Metalab: Because I love to learn stuff. Try things out. Become enthused about new technologies together with others. Carlyn Maw, CRASH Space: I’m a curious person who enjoys learning from other people. Rogueclown, former member, PS:One: i’m not, anymore, but, I was, because I wanted to meet a group of people locally who I could discuss projects with, and who could help me expand my technological skills.
Willow Brugh, Jigsaw Renaissance: It’s the school and community I always wanted. Keep a zero tolerance policy for BS. Astera: No. Mobile FABLAB with Andrea | Another Day with the Mobile FABLAB. Ald. Catarina mota | catarina's things. Becky Stern. Becky Stern, scanned and RP’d by Jonathan Monaghan/MakerBot for “New York Notables“ Our very own Becky Stern got a fine profile treatment on the wonderful design site Core77.
Becky Stern makes objects, for one thing, with unusual properties that occasionally make them difficult to classify… there’s the “Cell Phone Ski Mask”, the tablecloth made out of artificial sweetener packages, her Tron-ified knee brace adorned with electroluminscent wiring. And when I ask her about her persistent knee injuries, she pulls out a stuffed animal, only it’s not a stuffed animal: It’s an articulating plush model of her actual knee, complete with cartilage, ligaments and dislocating action, based on arthroscopy images and MRIs (the latter of which she also, by the way, embroidered). It’s a two-part piece. An Introduction to MAKEr Extraordinaire Becky Stern Becky also contributed to their Summer Gift Guide series.
Gareth Branwyn Related. Limor. LittleBits. Au coeur du site des hackers. Hackerspaces.org recense les lieux physiques où se rencontrent de plus en plus les adeptes de la bidouille. Esther Schneeweisz, alias Astera, fait partie des fondateurs. Portrait berlinois d'une jeune femme emblématique de la dernière génération de hackers. Astera Schneeweisz à Berlin, novembre 2011 - (cc) Ophelia Noor Elle incarne cette nouvelle génération de hackers, ces adeptes de la bidouille : le nez dans la machine mais aussi dans les objets, habitué des hackerspaces, des lieux de rencontre physique. Esther Schneeweisz, alias Astera, aime tellement les hackerspaces qu’elle fait partie de la petite bande aux contours flous qui a monté et prend soin de hackerspaces.org [en], un site qui liste les hackerspaces du monde entier, entre autres. Et bien sûr, elle en visite beaucoup. Cette adepte de la ligne de commande, originaire d’Autriche, vit à Berlin, où nous l’avons rencontré. 10% de femmes Elle fait partie des 10% de femmes qui peuplent un univers encore très masculin.
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