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Laser Etching a PCB with a RepRap by Leonardo

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2 years ago
by Catarina M. in

Leonardo has been work­ing on a laser-head RepRap for some time. His lat­est exper­i­ment was etch­ing a PCB with it. Above is the video of the first tests, but go on over to his blog to check out all the details.

food for your stomach

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2 years ago
by Catarina M. in


Feed­ing 15 sleep deprived hack­ers is not an easy task and dur­ing the AZ Res­i­dency only 3 peo­ple were brave enough to put their culi­nary tal­ents to the test: Joel, Vitor and Mar­i­ana. Every­one agreed that their home­made meals were awe­some and no bug reports were filed. Since we believe in shar­ing, here are Joel’s deli­cious open source recipes (in french comme il faut):

Salad Dress­ing [ VO ]

4 cuil­lère à soupe d’huile d’olive
3 cuil­lère à soupe de vinai­gre bal­samique
2 cuil­lère à café de miel
sel
poivre

Goûter et ajuster : si trop sucré, ajouter du vinai­gre / si trop amer, ajouter du miel.

Bask Chicken [ VO ]

Prévoir un bon morceau de poulet pour cha­cun des invités
Poivron
Tomate
Sauce tomate
Oignon
sel
poivre
Eau

(more…)

altlab goes on vacation

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2 years ago
by Catarina M. in


Since it’s really hot and most of our mem­bers are headed towards the beach for some well deserved vaca­tions, we won’t be hold­ing our Tues­day night pub­lic ses­sions until the end of August. Have a great sum­mer and see you in September!

Caros ami­gos: o esta­b­elec­i­mento alt­lab encontra-se encer­rado até ao final do mês de Agosto para des­canso do pes­soal. A gerên­cia agradece a vossa prefer­ên­cia e espera ver-vos de novo em Setembro :)

AZ Labs Exhibition @ O Espaço do Tempo

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2 years ago
by Catarina M. in

LCD + Alt­Lab + xDA
12 — 31 July 2010
Con­vento da Saudação | Montemor-o-Novo | Portugal

Exhi­bi­tion: Mon­day to Fri­day — 6pm / 11pm | Sat­ur­day and Sun­day — 4pm /11pm
Open­ing: 12th of July, 18h00

Artists : Cata­rina Mota | Fil­ipe Cruz | Francesco Cerutti | Guil­herme Mar­tins | João Maia e Silva | Joël Belouet | Jorge Ribeiro | Pedro Ângelo | Mar­garida Faria | Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins | Mónica Mendes | Marco Moura | Mar­i­ana Fer­reira | Mécia Sá | Ricardo Webbens | Sér­gio Fer­reira | Tiago Serra | Vitor Lago Silva | Vic­tor Martins

This exhi­bi­tion presents the results of a unique exper­i­ment. For 17 days, 30 mem­bers of the Audi­en­cia Zero Labs from all over the coun­try and also abroad lived and worked together on col­lec­tive projects. New teams were formed, infi­nite ideas pro­posed, new tools and tech­nolo­gies exper­i­mented with, incred­i­ble adven­tures lived and new friends made. The projects at this exhibit are just the tip of the veil, the true impact of this expe­ri­ence is yet to come.

More info @ O Espaço do Tempo

makerbot as microscope: what we learned

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3 years ago
by Catarina M. in

Joel Belouet has been work­ing on an art piece involv­ing microor­gan­isms and needed a sup­port struc­ture for his micro­scope cam­era. It turns out the Maker­Bot sit­ting on our table was the solution.

At first Joel attached the cam­era to the z axis and the slide rested on the build plat­form, but it soon became clear that it would be much bet­ter to have the sam­ple remain still and the cam­era move instead. Invert­ing the posi­tions meant attach­ing the slide to the bot­tom of the z axis plat­form in order to pre­vent the cam­era lens from bump­ing against it. This setup also allowed him to use the z crank as a focus mech­a­nism. (more…)

AZ Residency — The Video

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3 years ago
by Catarina M. in

See also:
AZ Res­i­dency @ O Espaço do Tempo
AZ Res­i­dency Day 1 – We Have Arrived!
AZ Res­i­dency Day 2 – Noth­ing Like The Fresh Smell of Vine­gar Early In The Morn­ing
AZ Res­i­dency Day 3 – Ideas Are Like Rab­bits On Spring
AZ Res­i­dency Day 4 – Rou­tine Strike
AZ Res­i­dency Day 5 – Mis­tos de Porco Preto Reprise
AZ Res­i­dency Day 6 – Vitor Espad­inha Si Teh Luv
AZ Res­i­dency Day 7 – We’ll Be Back

a glove that lights up when you shake hands

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3 years ago
by Catarina M. in

light up glove

This mit­ten lights up when its wearer shakes hands with some­one. It has two exposed soft con­tacts around the thumb and across the palm which, when bridged by bare skin, turn on the LED embed­ded on the flower. The mit­ten itself was cre­ated by fash­ion designer Isabel Tomás, and we then sewed a sim­ple touch switch cir­cuit onto it using con­duc­tive fab­ric and thread. It also works with high fives and hold­ing hands :)

high five and holding hands

Isabel and I designed this as a soft cir­cuits exer­cise for some upcom­ing mate­ri­als work­shops. You can find all the instruc­tions and images we pre­pared for this pur­pose @ openMaterials:

http://openmaterials.org/2010/03/03/making-a-glove-that-lights-up-with-a-hand-shake/

First Soft Circuits Open Lab

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3 years ago
by Catarina M. in

soft circuits open lab

This Sun­day we’re hold­ing our first Soft Cir­cuits Open Lab at the School of Fine Arts in Lis­bon (FBAUL — Fac­ul­dade de Belas Artes de Lis­boa). There is no pre­de­fined struc­ture for the event. We will meet for the course of one day with the pur­poses of shar­ing knowl­edge, exper­i­ment­ing freely, advanc­ing on-going projects, and just hav­ing fun work­ing together. Some of the peo­ple attend­ing will be spe­cial­ists in elec­tron­ics and oth­ers in tex­tiles. Bar­camp style impromptu pre­sen­ta­tions are very welcome.

Alt­lab will pro­vide some basic tools such as pli­ers, scis­sors, sol­der­ing irons, iron­ing board, etc. But par­tic­i­pants must bring all the mate­ri­als and addi­tional equip­ment nec­es­sary for their own projects/experiments (includ­ing lap­tops). Here are some sug­ges­tions: any kind of fab­ric, nee­dles and thread, yarn, t-shirts, con­duc­tive and/or resis­tive fab­ric, con­duc­tive thread, con­duc­tive and/or resis­tive yarn, knit­ting and/or cro­chet nee­dles, LEDs, coin cell bat­ter­ies, bat­tery hold­ers, EL wire, strands of fiber optics, cop­per foil, cop­per adhe­sive track, alu­minum foil, resis­tive foam, reg­u­lar foam, arduinos (lily­pad or any other kind). If you’ve never worked with any of these mate­ri­als and don’t have them handy, come any­way, you can help some­one else with their project and learn along the way.

For more infor­ma­tion on soft cir­cuits tech­niques and mate­ri­als, check out the Soft Cir­cuits Resources sec­tion on the open­Ma­te­ri­als wiki.

This open lab will take place on Feb­ru­ary 21st, from 10:30 to 18:30, at the School of Fine Arts in Lis­bon, room 307, 1st floor (since our own space is still under con­struc­tion). All are wel­come, there is no fee nor reg­is­tra­tion, but please do let me know if you are plan­ning on com­ing: catarinamota(at)audienciazero.org

Residência AZ no Espaço do Tempo

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3 years ago
by Catarina M. in

(scroll down for english)

A Audiên­cia Zero vai realizar uma residên­cia artís­tica mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nar com os seus três lab­o­ratórios (Alt­Lab, LCD, xDA) no O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo) no período entre 01 e 07 de Março e 14 e 23 de Junho. A apre­sen­tação dos tra­bal­hos pro­duzi­dos na residên­cia será feita entre 12 e 25 de Julho. A residên­cia é antes de mais des­ti­nada aos actu­ais mem­bros dos lab­o­ratórios, mas está pre­vista a par­tic­i­pação de ele­men­tos exter­nos no caso destes apre­sentarem pro­postas de tra­balho con­sis­tentes e inter­es­santes. Mais infor­mações e inscrições no fim desta página…

residência AZ no Espaço do Tempo

Os inter­es­sa­dos na residên­cia devem man­i­fes­tar o seu inter­esse e inscreverem-se com a maior bre­v­i­dade pos­sível (fim da página) para garan­tir lugar. A orga­ni­za­ção entrará em con­tacto para dar segui­mento à inscrição.

Quando solic­i­ta­dos pela orga­ni­za­ção os par­tic­i­pantes devem indicar se têm um pro­jecto em mente para desen­volver ou activi­dade a pro­por. Quanto mais claros forem os pro­jec­tos e as activi­dades, assim como os pápeis a desem­pen­har por cada um dos ele­men­tos das equipas con­sti­tuí­das ou a con­sti­tuir, maior é a probal­i­dade da activi­dade ou pro­jecto de ser integrada na residência.

As vagas na residên­cia estão lim­i­tadas a 15, com dire­ito a alo­ja­mento e uma refeição diária. No caso de exi­s­tirem mais do que 15 par­tic­i­pantes ter-se-á que escol­her os pro­jec­tos mais inter­es­santes respei­tando os seguintes critérios de selecção: cria­tivi­dade, tec­nolo­gias envolvi­das, via­bil­i­dade e tempo.

Após o peri­odo de inscrições, serão avali­a­dos as apli­cações pelos orga­ni­zadores e definidos os artis­tas res­i­dentes. Ini­cia­re­mos a dis­cussão dos pro­jec­tos / activi­dades e definição da temática.

Exem­p­los Activi­dades:
. Work­shops
. Palestras
. Demonstrações

Exem­p­los de Áreas de Pro­jecto:
. Elec­trónica e Com­putação Física
. Insta­lações Inter­ac­ti­vas
. Per­for­mance
. Robótica
. Visão por Com­puta­dor
. Visu­al­iza­ção de Dados

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Audiên­cia Zero will hold a mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary artist res­i­dency with its three lab­o­ra­to­ries (alt­lab, LCD, xDA) in O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo) in the period between 01 and 07 March and 14 and 23 June. The projects pro­duced will be shown between 12 and 25 July. The res­i­dence is pri­mar­ily intended for the cur­rent mem­bers of this lab­o­ra­to­ries, but par­tic­i­pa­tion of exter­nal ele­ments is accepted where pro­pos­als are con­sis­tent and inter­est­ing. More infor­ma­tion and reg­is­tra­tion at the end of this page …

Those inter­ested in res­i­dence should express their inter­est and enroll as soon as pos­si­ble (end of page) to secure a place. The orga­ni­za­tion will con­tact you to fol­low up the application.

When asked by the orga­ni­za­tion par­tic­i­pants must indi­cate whether they have a project in mind to develop or an activ­ity to pro­pose. The clearer the projects and activ­i­ties, as well as the roles played by each ele­ment of a team, the greater the like­li­hood of the activ­ity or project to be inte­grated into the residence.

Vacan­cies in the res­i­dence are lim­ited to 15, with the right accom­mo­da­tion and a daily meal. If there are more than 15 par­tic­i­pants, the orga­ni­za­tion we’ll have to choose the most inter­est­ing projects address­ing the fol­low­ing selec­tion cri­te­ria: cre­ativ­ity, tech­nolo­gies involved, fea­si­bil­ity and time.

After the reg­is­tra­tion period, appli­ca­tions will be assessed by the orga­niz­ers and estab­lished res­i­dent artists. We will begin the dis­cus­sion of projects / activ­i­ties and define the res­i­dency theme.

Sam­ple Activ­i­ties:
. Work­shops
. Lec­tures
. Demos

Project theme exam­ples:
. Elec­tron­ics and Phys­i­cal Com­put­ing
. Inter­ac­tive Instal­la­tions
. Per­for­mance
. Robot­ics
. Com­puter Vision
. Data Visualization

Espaço do Tempo

Espaço do Tempo

Orga­ni­za­ção: Guil­herme Mar­tins, Ricardo Lobo e Tiago Serra.

http://www.altlab.org
http://www.labcd.org
http://www.xdatelier.org
http://www.oespacodotempo.pt

Residên­cia AZ no Espaço do Tempo
1ª Edição

For­mador: Audiên­cia Zero
Coor­de­nador: Audiên­cia Zero
Datas: 1 a 7 Março; 14 a 23 Junho; 12 a 25 Julho
Horário: Todo Dia
Local: O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo)
Preço: 0 euros
Estado: Aber­tas as Inscrições

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AZ Hackmeet — the video

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3 years ago
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