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Aerogel is the lightest solid material on the planet, up to 99.98% of its volume can be pure air. It insulates space suits and could be used one day to clean up oil spills. And I've just discovered you can make it at ...

aerogel

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A follow up to our last post on artificial muscles.. I just found this ebook- Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications, Kim K.J., Tadokoro S.(Springer, 2007) The description states: Electroactive polymers (EAPs) ...

electroactive polymers + robotics

Conductive Materials, Polymers, Resources

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A great demo showing some Artificial Muscle - Electro Conductive Polymer from Ishii Lab, Kyushu Institute of Technology, ...

artificial muscle

Conductive Materials, Polymers

The thesis of Otto von Busch, Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design, is available as an online PDF. This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for ...

fashion-able, hacktivism and engaged fashion design

Textiles

2009 AAAS/Science Dance Your Ph.D. Contest It started with the purest form of scientific communication-research papers that supposedly leave little room for more than one interpretation, but was transformed into modern ...

science dance match-up challenge

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Nanotechnology - Carbon Nanotube Electronics is a short educational video on nanotechnology and carbon nanotubes by the Stanford Nanoelectronics ...

carbon nanotube electronics

Conductive Materials

WikiChains is an initiative "to gaze backwards through the chains of production in order to gain knowledge about the sites of production, transformation, and distribution." WikiChains is a website that aims to encourage ...

WikiChains

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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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Sparkle Labs just announced their new business card micro kits: a paper base with embedded LEDs that light up in the dark. Check out their site for more photos and PDF instructions. We love paper circuits - please keep ...

sparkle labs’ printed circuit business cards

Circuits, Paper

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Papercrete is a construction material made from waste paper, for affordable, sustainable housing. The name implies a mix of paper and concrete, hence paper-crete. Papercrete can be mixed in many ways. Paper is ...

living in paper

Ceramics & Glass, Paper, Polymers

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Video of 'Computational Sketch', made with electronics, paper, conductive paint, magnetic paint, and magnets by Leah Buechley. ...

computational sketch :: paper computing

Circuits, Conductive Materials, Paper