h a c k t e r i a & l a b h a c k i n g with Marc R. Dusseiller & Kaspar Koenig Saturday 30 May - Wednesday 3 June 2009, 12.00-18.00 daily Location: eNKa / ElsenStr. 52 (2.Hof) Berlin, Germany Telephone: +49 (0)176 20626386 Course Participation fee: 100 euros Registration is required for this workshop and [...]
Read Full Post...May 14, 2009
hardhack is a hands-on hardware event in berlin, germany. this will be the 2nd incarnation of hardhack. last year it had about 40 participants, this year about 150 participants are expected . the main deal with hardhack is that it consists of all hands on hardware hacking, no powerpoint presentations! no blah blah! there will [...]
Read Full Post...May 13, 2009
V2_Events: Test_Lab: Fashionable Technology* V2_ Ground floor, Eendrachtsstraat 10, Rotterdam. May 20, 2009 8 p.m. Admission: free. *The term Fashionable Technology is coined by Sabine Seymour. This event will be streamed live at http://live.v2.nl Featuring: Sabine Seymour (AT/US), Mark Coeckelbergh (B/NL), Aram Bartholl (DE), Cutecircuit: Francesca Rosella and Ryan Genz (UK), and KOBAKANT: Mika Satomi and Hannah Perner-Wilson (JP/AT). Clothing is an aspect [...]
Read Full Post...May 13, 2009
Until recently no one could explain why superconducting LEDs are brighter. The question arose last year when Japanese researchers were working on a device to study how Cooper pairs in superconducting niobium would emit light when combined with holes generated in a PN junction. Surprisingly, these researchers realized that their superconducting LED was much brighter [...]
Read Full Post...May 12, 2009
Interactivos?’09: Garage Science was an intensive project development workshop (January 28 through February 14, 2009) and a seminar that explored practices where art, science and technology meet. Participants were invited to turn the Medialab Prado, Madrid into a garage laboratory where low-cost, accessible materials were used to develop objects and installations that combine software, hardware [...]
Read Full Post...May 11, 2009
oM loves Hannah Perner-Wilson’s (Plusea) tutorials and projects involving wearable technology and textile electronics. Above is one of her tutorials to make a bend sensor from textile duct tape, three layers of Velostat, conductive thread and fabric. It uses an Arduino and Processing to graph the sensor data. And one of her work-in-progress projects, a [...]
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May 15, 2009
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