Last March I had the opportunity to teach an openMaterials workshop at the very special École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence (France). It was part of a larger event in which the school invited researchers and artists from several fields to lead a one week class for 2nd year art students. The goal was to show [...]
Read Full Post...May 6, 2010
I’ve learned that there are 3 main challenges in working with soft circuits. The first one is to create circuitry with materials that are almost always completely exposed: a lot of thought goes into the layout of the circuit to not only avoid accidental shorts during normal wear, but also to avoid crisscrosses between conductive [...]
Read Full Post...April 27, 2010
OSLOOM is is a project led by Margarita Benitez aimed at creating an open source electromechanical thread-controlled loom that will be computer controlled. It will include basic software allowing anyone to simply weave a photo thru a web browser (twill/satin), import weave ready files from other software (such as Bhakti/Alice photoshop method), and then post [...]
Read Full Post...April 24, 2010
I used latex for creating a skin-like material for one of my artworks. If one uses latex emulsion, it is possible to get with 2 layers rubber-like material. Usually instructions say that one should dip a form into latex, but i created a cast from clay. Plus i added some color pigments for achieving better color. cast [...]
Read Full Post...April 19, 2010
A great new service has just been launched called BioTorrents, which allows scientists to rapidly share their results, datasets, and software using the popular BitTorrent file sharing technology. Here’s the abstract from the paper BioTorrents: A File Sharing Service for Scientific Data published on PloS ONE: The transfer of scientific data has emerged as a [...]
Read Full Post...April 19, 2010
D-Shape, whose 3d printers are capable of fabricating amazing mega scale free-form building size models, are now working with the European Space Agency to create a 3d printer that can extrude within the moon’s vacuum environment using lunar dust. They are currently experimenting with ’simulant’ lunar dust, and hope to conduct trials in a vacuum environment [...]
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May 10, 2010
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