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Unfold has started printing with ceramics on a modified rapman. First results look amazing: We took some time to play around and get used to the dynamics of the clay print process. It was also time to step up (or ...

claystruder :: printing ceramics

Ceramics & Glass, Tools

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Pa++tern, created by Daito Manabe + Motoi Ishibashi, is a combination of an installation and an esoteric programming language for embroidery in which a series of industrial sewing machines are controlled by twiterers. ...

pa++ern :: an esoteric language for embroidery

Textiles, Tools

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Over at the Torvalds family blog, Linus has just written a really interesting post about helping his wife with a new computerised embroidery machine she got for Christmas. He talks about the problems with the ...

hacking embroidery machines

Textiles, Tools

Tinkercell is a computer-aided design (CAD) tool for synthetic biology. According to New Scientist, the package has a library of the components of life, from which users can pick different cells, membrane proteins, ...

TinkerCell

Tools

The new version of openArtist is an artist friendly Linux distro based on the latest Ubuntu KarmicKoala. openArtist features a streamlined interface (gnomebased), with integrated mouse gestures, custom menus, ...

new version of openArtist

Tools

openMaterials is happy to announce that we are now mirroring the openArtist ISO - http://openartist.openmaterials.org openArtist is a LINUX operating system for artists based on Ubuntu Hardy, but also incorporates ...

openArtist

Tools

[caption id="attachment_1159" align="alignnone" width="443" caption="Open source works for atoms too! "][/caption] Our friend Michel Bauwens fabs it up at Reality Sandwich by breaking down the rising activity in open ...

emergence of open design and manufacturing

Tools

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A Fab Lab (Fabrication Laboratory) is a workshop with a range of flexible manufacturing and prototyping tools that can be used to make "almost anything". The types of fabrication tools you might find in a Fab Lab ...

Fab Labs

Tools

Here's a short video showing four processes commonly used by industrial designers to create prototype concepts. Prototyping Processes for Industrial Designers from karl frankowski on ...

prototyping processes for industrial designers

Tools