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

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.

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

Mechanical greeting cards

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

123D Make

Inkscape

1. 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.
2. Download Inkscape here
3. Draw something or import it from somewhere else
4. From Inkscape save cutting plan (Save as command) in “Plain SVG” format.

Visicut

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

Fablab is here

The Epilog Zing 6030 laser cutter

Cutting

Assembling

Abel’s assembly

Concentration

Randomness

1. Language is a virus here
2. 500 letters – generate your biography as an artist here
3. Postmodernist text generator here
4. Music aleatoric, indeterminate and generative

Rhino

1. List of Rhino commands

Sources of existing 3D models

1. Thingiverse
2. Archive3d
3. Makehuman

Show and tell

Paper craft models from 3D data

Let’s modify the public space!

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

1. Caliper, to measure small things. it’s important to measure it precisely.
2. Ruler, measure to measure big things.
3. Digital camera to design fits to the shape, and it’s also useful for 123D Catch.
4. 2D vector graphics editor (illustrator)

Measuring the street furniture

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

• No Place Like Home, GPS shoes
• Vase at the Tate
• Human Harp
• Lilytronica
• Accouphène
• Kobakant
• Drapery FM
• Etextile summer camp
• Fashioningtech
• Adafruit

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.

Listening

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

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

Barbie is keeping in trim

Waiting for the music

These legs are made for walking

Niklas and Kati working hard

3 presentations this morning

Abel’s presentation

Victor’s presentation

Federico’s presentation

Links

• The Creeping Garden
• Blast Theory
• The Patching Zone
• The Whale Hunt
• Bear 71
• Super Everything
• The Light Surgeons
• The Clouds Documentary
• CREW Terra Nova

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On the first day

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