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On December 12 and 13 Audiência Zero (AZ) will hold the first big meeting of its 3 labs: LCD, altLab, and xDA. We’ll all get together in Porto, at AZ’s headquarters, for 2 days of creative and fun hacking. The main goals for this hackmeet are to share knowledge, explore synergies, collaborate, research, and… (of [...]

This summer I was a resident at NYC Resistor (NYCR), a hacker collective based in Brooklyn, NY. I’m now back home in Lisbon and would like to share a brief round-up of this wonderful experience. First of all I must mention how incredibly welcoming and fun all the members of the collective are. Not only did [...]

Nanotechnology - Carbon Nanotube Electronics is a short educational video on nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes by the Stanford Nanoelectronics Group.

Sparkle Labs just announced their new business card micro kits: a paper base with embedded LEDs that light up in the dark. Check out their site for more photos and PDF instructions. We love paper circuits - please keep them coming :)

Teaching Resources at Middlesex University (MUTR) is a UK-based online store with a mission to support technology teachers. They provide wonderful materials at affordable prices: from expancel, carbon nanotubes, SMAs, SMPs, photochromic and thermocromic materials, paper-making sets, to motors, solar panels, electronic components, as well as traditional materials such as paper, wood, and metal - [...]

Understanding how we got ‘here’ plays an important role on our efforts to imagine and project the future. In that spirit here’s a lecture given by Michael Riordan at the Computer History Museum addressing the broad efforts toward microminiaturization of the early 1950s. The computer chip we know today initially emerged from Cold War demands for [...]