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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 - [...]

SMART TEXTILES SALON September 25, 2009, Ghent, Belgium The programme is organised together with 80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University and 6th International Conference on Textile and Polymer Biotechnology. The exhibition introduces the latest demonstrator and prototype developments in the field of smart textiles and intelligent wearable systems. The displayed items will [...]

A first hackteria workshop has been going on last week at NK, Berlin. First of all, it was great fun and we could get the project a big step further. go to the hackteria webpage for a detailed description. and see our pictures on flickr the topic of the workshop was to build your own little microscope using [...]

Introduction to Chemical Engineering (E20) is an introductory course offered by the Stanford University Engineering Department. It provides a basic overview of the chemical engineering field today and delves into the applications of chemical engineering.

I came to experiment with the construction of an arduino-on-wood just recently because I began to be interested in the idea of “embalming” data.  Since some years ago I’ve been exploring ways to make visible and audible the human rhythms of birth and death, and at this time I wanted to get hold of these [...]