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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 [...]
July 15, 2009
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 packages from Intrepid, Jaunty, PureDyne, Debian, Mint, Rpm based distros. Many selfmade packages, also some freeware is included. It can be used as a live [...]
July 2, 2009
Our friend Michel Bauwens fabs it up at Reality Sandwich by breaking down the rising activity in open design and manufacturing. The article outlines the barriers to creating truly open materials non-commercially. Michel, perhaps wisely, does not suggest we’ll have a non-commercial environment, however. [T]o produce physical goods, there are inevitable costs of getting the capital together, [...]
June 8, 2009
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 [...]
June 5, 2009
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 include: * Laser, plasma, vinyl and water jet cutters * CNC machines - [...]






November 9, 2009
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