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The Edward Snowden Academy of Observation

These penetrating observers are meant to peer at whoever is standing nearby. In 2014, everyone knows who Edward Snowden is and what he told us.

Can it see around corners?

More details

Final exhibition in Kunstquartier Bethanien

Come this way

Kim’s TXT ME

There is more detail on TXT ME.

Kim’s Edward Snowden Academy of Observation

There is more detail here.

Niklas Roy’s electronic instant camera

See Niklas’ web site

Mario’s head

Now what is it?

Draw something that sounds good

Another work by Mario

Can it see around corners?

Tom’s amazing light sensitive drawing robot

Kovas and Nancy’s beautiful mathematical creation

Queue here to have your picture taken

Victor asks how fast would you like your food?

Young composer at work

TXT ME receives SMS messages and displays them, one letter at a time, by raising arms with letters on the end. Our world is getting faster and faster, so this deliberately takes its time and slowly “reads out” your message. You have to concentrate or you will miss a letter. You will find it hard to avoid trying to guess what a word will be when only a few letters have been revealed. Patience is required, it will not be rushed. If no one sends any messages, after a while it reads out TEXT ME as an invitation.

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Tuesday week 4

3 presentations this morning

Abel’s presentation

Victor’s presentation

Federico’s presentation

Monday week 4

Anaisa’s presentation on types of display

Aerogel is funny stuff.

Fiber Space

Fiber-space web site

Coded matters

Jarl Schulp presents –

Sonice Development

The web site

Julian Adenauer presents –

Rising Colorspace from Sonice Development on Vimeo.

This autumn Retune

Do you know Your world of text?

How about Victor’s http://www.protocoder.org

Weekend after week 3

Laser cutting rules OK

Now it just needs an arm, the electronics and the software …

Friday week 3

The Robot Awards

The most likely to break Asimov’s laws
The most likely to spawn and take over the world
The robot that looks most like its creator
The most likely to get most likes on Facebook
The robot which will most likely leave the biggest carbon footprint
The most likely to get lost in uncanny valley
The most likely to be used for cheering up Alzheimer’s patients
The most likely to be confused with media art
The least likely to pass the Turing test
The most likely to be the next Amazon delivery service
The most likely to be used as a sex toy at the next Burning Man

The awards

The voting

Some contenders

Early voting

Robot wars – Berlin style

Take a look at the amazing video on this page by Niklas Roy.

Thursday week 3

Niklas and Kati working hard

Wednesday week 3

Who knows Tim Hunkin?

Paprika pedestrian

Hot gluing

Hot soldering

Cool bending of welding rods

Tuesday week 3

Barbie is keeping in trim

Waiting for the music

These legs are made for walking

Monday week 3

ROBOTS LOOSE IN TATE BRITAIN!

The Space reports. Four robots will be roaming the galleries of Tate Britain after hours this weekend (15 – 17 August). After Dark offers people from all over the world the chance to control one of the robots’ routes around the Tate and to see through their ‘eyes’.

After Dark won the inaugural IK Prize 2014, a new annual prize presented by Tate to celebrate digital creativity, supported by the Porter Foundation.

Niklas and Kati

Their web sites are here and here.

Cyberbeetle from Kati Hyyppä on Vimeo.

Niklas Roy – My Little Piece of Privacy from Le Studio MAC Créteil on Vimeo.

Can we make walking machines as silly as John Cleese?

4 hours to print & then this

Wooh! Presents!

Treasure trove – All of these beautiful things to use

To make one of these

Or one of these

Friday week 2

Listening

Take a look at http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

And also http://www.plummerfernandez.com/Digital-Natives

Thursday week 2

Need an idea?

http://whatthefuckismywearablestrategy.com
See http://theglovesproject.com

//
// Becky’s lesson on Thursday
// Read the voltage from the Arduino’s analogue input A0
// and write out the value to the serial window
//
// Voltage divider circuit
//
//
int potPin = A0; // This is the analogue input used to measure
// the voltage from the potentiometer’s wiper

// set up the serial interface
void setup()
{
Serial.begin (9600);
}

// main loop
void loop()
{
int potValue;
potValue = analogRead (potPin); // produces values from 0 (0V) to 1023 (+5V)
Serial.println(potValue); // output to the serial interface
delay(300); // delay in ms
}

Becky making

Kim making traditional style

WEAR IT

The wearable electronics festival 11 – 12 October 2014. Web site. Two days of diving into wearable tech at Betahaus Berlin.

Another shop for components, in Wedding

It’s called Sly

They were more helpful than the Conrad people. Erich-Weinert-Str. 139 – 141 – close to S-Bahn station Greifswalderstrasse.

aBe

Wednesday week 2

Please touch

A dead drop lock for the gate in The Wall.

The Google Streetview man comes out into the world

The original

Out in the street

Wearables

Becky Stewart’s website. Becky is an engineer / developer working with physical computing. She co-founded Codasign, to run workshops teaching programming and electronics, and is a member of Anti-Alias Labs where she collaborates with artists and creative agencies to create interactive installations. She has a PhD from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.

Becky’s slides are here

Examples of wearables

See theelectronicshobbyist for some basics.

Tank Thunderbird and her 3D printer

Have you seen Moment of Inspiration? It’s like Rhino but easier to use.

Her Digital Alchemy web site.

Tuesday week 2

Back at the Fablab

5 mm MDF and a bit of paint

Creative chaos?

Kovas’ mathematical meanderings

The hard bit

Wait and see what Victor is up to with his tree prosthetic

Anaisa was busy too

What remains of the day

Monday week 2

Randomness

Language is a virus here
500 letters – generate your biography as an artist here
Postmodernist text generator here
Music aleatoric, indeterminate and generative

Rhino

List of Rhino commands

Sources of existing 3D models

Show and tell

Paper craft models from 3D data

Pepakura

Let’s modify the public space!

We will try to make some modification on the public space, like adding some function, make it useless or make it different. whatever. During this workshop, the participants will have an alternative point of view for the public space and can learn how to measure and model for digital fabrication tools.

Inspiring works

A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints here
Dead Drops here
Trying to fix as much as possible here and here
The Inflatables – JOSHUA ALLEN HARRIS here
Mark jenkins here
Open Knit (Put clothes on mannequin, against fast fashion) here
Russia Wrap Up here
The Free Universal Construction Kit here

Tools

Caliper, to measure small things. it’s important to measure it precisely.
Ruler, measure to measure big things.
Digital camera to design fits to the shape, and it’s also useful for 123D Catch.
2D vector graphics editor (illustrator)

Measuring the street furniture

Weekend week 1

Making in the cellar

Almost there

Friday week 1

Another point of view – low-tech hacking with just your fingers

Mechanical greeting cards

Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner [4min selection]

123D Make

With Autodesk 123D Make you can turn your digital 3D models into amazing real world creations made from cardboard, wood, metal, and other flat materials.
Download 123D Make here

Inkscape

Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor. It’s free and open source.

Download & install XQuartz. XQuartz is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.org X Window System that runs on OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has shipped with OS X since version 10.5.
Download Inkscape here
Draw something or import it from somewhere else
From Inkscape save cutting plan (Save as command) in “Plain SVG” format.

Visicut

Visicut is a user-friendly tool for laser-cutting.

Download and install Visicut
Download the correct Visicut settings here for the Zing laser cutter.
Open Visicut and in the Edit menu choose settings to import the downloaded file.
Open the cutting plan SVG file.
Choose your material and its thickness
Press “Execute” to send a file to the laser cutter
Put the material in the laser cutter
Use the spring to calibrate the height of the laser above the material
Start the cutting

Fablab is here

The Epilog Zing 6030 laser cutter

Cutting

Assembling

Abel’s assembly

Concentration

Thursday week 1

Taking off for class this morning through the middle of Berlin

How to get a grant

Alternatives to the Arduino editor

Eclipse
Eclipse is an integrated development environment. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Written mostly in Java, Eclipse can be used to develop applications.

Sublime
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.

Codebender
This is an online development & collaboration platform for Arduino users, makers and engineers.

Show and tell

Mathematica

Don’t wake up the dog

The Processing software

This can talk to an Arduino via the serial interface.
Download it here.

To see a list of the command under the Help menu chose Reference.

Rhino

This is 3D modelling software.
Download the software here.

Wednesday week 1

Do you know the Fritzing application? This is something you can use to plan your component/wiring layout on the breadboard, generate a circuit diagram and then a PCB layout. You can download it here.

Magnificent Mario

Kreuzberg style – but is it art?

Arduino waves the flag!

Stefania starts her session (Stefania founded Hackidemia)

Stefania invited us all to the maker camp party on Friday.

Brainstorming on the floor

The artwork for our cycling project

Take a look at lock8

Juice not bombs!

See food not bombs.

Tuesday week 1

The library

Things are certainly starting to move around here

€7,95 from Conrad (get yours here)

Caitlin gets going

Single-goal systems

As a thought exercise –

Take 2 electronic components – speaker, servo, LED, motor, spring, etc.

Take a trait

passive aggressive
adventurous
optimistic
depressed
curious
aggressive
distracted
submissive

Think of something!

Tom’s idea

Wayhay our first circuit!

An illuminating experience

Download the Arduino software for your laptop.

Here are the commands you can use.

The Arduino starter kit

Buy at Tinker Soup for €98,50 Tel. 03077903156 c/o onformative, 2nd Hinterhof, 5th floor, Frankfurter Allee 53, 10247 Berlin

Buy at Conrad for €125,00 Schöneberg or Kreuzberg

Monday week 1

Getting to know one another

Looking for lunch

Asking questions

Some questions –

How do I make things that don’t fall over?
Why do people like to use technology?
How can I use a laser-cutter to teach calculus?
How do I decide what to learn first when there is so much I could learn?
Why do things have to be useful instead of playful?
Does the Arduino world include magnetic sensors?
How do I make large things?
What do people think of Phidgets?
What do people think of Gogoboard?
Do you know Daito Manabe?

Presentation time

Federico Peliti

Anaisa Franco

Joachimsthal

Joachimsthal Wanderung. Treffpunkt – Eberswalder Hbf 10:22 Uhr, Son. 7. Sept.

Tageskarte Berlin – Joachimsthal: 16,40 EUR. Susann schreibt “auf ein Brandenburgticket können 5 Leute fahren und zwar den ganzen Tag”.

BVG Seite – Link

Komoot Sprachnavigation

Lass dich von einfachen, punktgenauen Sprachanweisungen leiten, auch über die kleinsten Wege. Dein Handy bleibt in der Tasche und du kannst die Landschaft genießen, ohne ständig auf die Karte schauen zu müssen.

Der Skulpturengarten

Joachimsplatz 1 – 3: Der Skulpturengarten am Rathaus stellt in reizvollem Ambiente Künstler in wechselnden Ausstellungen vor. Bildhauer aus Brandenburg und Berlin präsentieren Skulpturen aus Holz, Stahl und Stein.

BIORAMA

Seit Beginn der Entwicklung und Konzeption des BIORAMA Projekt im Jahr 2004, wurde der Ort für künstlerische und kulturelle Ereignisse und Veranstaltungen genutzt. Im Juni 2006 fand die Eröffnung am Wasserturm in Joachimsthal statt und bildete den Auftakt für ein laufendes Veranstaltungs- und Aktivitätenprogramm. BIORAMA-Projekt Am Wasserturm 1 (Töpferstrasse) Tel: 03336164931 Handy: 01799249535

Kaiserbahnhof

Der Kaiserbahnhof in Joachimsthal ist seit 2006 als Erster Deutscher Hörspielbahnhof und ist seit 2008 „Ausgewählter Ort”. Der Heimatverein Joachimsthal verwandelte den alten Kaiserpavillon in ein Auditorium.

Restaurant Seerandperle
Seerandstraße 4B

Arttisch Esskultur
Jägerberg 3, Tel: 033361729220 Handy: 01774926748