openMaterials

Just announced on the RepRap blog: The Foresight Institute has announced its Kartik M. Gada Humanitarian Innovation Prize to design and build a better RepRap. There is an interim prize of $20,000, and a grand prize of $80,000. I am particularly excited about these specific aims of the contest: :: Print at least three different materials, including [...]

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, fluorescent proteins, enzymes and genes to create their organism. Tinkercell can then simulate the life form to see if it functions as expected. Features include :: [...]

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, reorganized and extended system configuration tools, terminal-on-desktop integration (guake, ctrl+esc), dropbox for collaboration between artists, extended tooltips for the program launchers, documentation for (nearly) every program… For a [...]

I thought I’d share with you how methylenchlorid can be used to glue and fix different plastics. Here’s an experiment I’ve just done using a hacked servo (continuous rotation) and polystyrene and methylenchlorid to make a linear actuator. The video below shows how easy it is to use methylenchlorid: If you can see this, [...]

So… I finally got around to writing about a very cool event I attended a couple months ago: FashionCamp NYC. Self-described as “a barcamp style unconference,” FashionCamp NYC had its first edition September 12th and 13th at ITP. Over the course of a rainy weekend people interested in fashion and/or technology gathered to give and attend [...]

Thom Yorke 3D print by Tiago Serra: a 3D model/print created from the CC licensed original point cloud data of Radioheads’s “House of Cards” videoclip. Audiência Zero (altLab, LCD and xDA’s mothership) recently held a 3D Printing Workshop led by Zach Hoeken from MakerBot Industries. Sérgio Ferreira wrote such a nice post about it that I [...]