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A talk by Bath University Professor Adrian Boyer, creator of the RepRap 3D Printer, given @ FOSDEM. (via Erik de Bruijn)

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 [...]

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 [...]

SMART TEXTILES SALON September 25, 2009, Ghent, Belgium The programme is organised together with 80th Anniversary of the Department of Textiles at Ghent University and 6th International Conference on Textile and Polymer Biotechnology. The exhibition introduces the latest demonstrator and prototype developments in the field of smart textiles and intelligent wearable systems. The displayed items will [...]

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 [...]

This year for the first time there was a workshop at CHI in conjunction with Dorkbot: DIY for CHI Methods, Communities, and Values of Reuse and Customization. The workshop coincided with the 27th annual conference on Human-Computer Interaction (CHI) ACM SIGCHI 2009 held in Boston, USA this year 4-9 April. The workshop seemed like a [...]