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AZ Labs @ O Espaço do Tempo
04 months ago
by filipecruz
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Day three is already upon us at the AZ Labs Residency. Folks still happily hacking away day and night.
Run to the local chinese store brought back some hackable goodies like colorful balls, a giant rubik’s cube and some wooden boxes. Andrea Inocêncio was assigned to drilling duty after finishing up with the manequin head. Ricardo Webbens left behind his radio location arduino circuit prototypes for me to test.
César Coelho took the time to learn some new software stuff. Tiago Serra is currently trying to make the kinect and the arduino talk with each other and make some annoying sinus sounds. André Sier spent the afternoon hacking with Mauricio Martins programming the arduinos with ir detection to give some random blips and blops.
Tiago Rorke is almost finished with printing and sanding the hardware of his revolutionary Micro CNC. Ricardo Lobo tried desperatly to get the other Makerbot working. Pedro Ângelo seccluded himself to code some kinect stuff for Play With Fire. Filipe Cruz spent some time testing new versions of kinect libraries and random iPad development.
Ivo Andrade dropped by to enhance his project of the boy sitting on a metal cube. Patricia Proença sketched some concept art. Other folks were also walking around looking busy and discussing ideas. 7 more days to go.
AZ Labs @ O Espaço do Tempo
04 months ago
by filipecruz
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AZ Labs are back in residency at Montemor-o-Novo. This time we are trying to have a connecting theme for the creative technology hacking insanity. The plan for the next 10 days is to brainstorm, conceptualize and prototype project ideas for tangible objects that can interact with each other and the environment.
We have folks attending with all sorts of backgrounds: computer science, plastic arts, performance arts, electronics, industrial fabrication, graphic design, sound design, statistics, sociology. We barely had time to introduce ourselves to the first timers and new ideas are already brewing. Plans for infrared communication. Augmented reality environments. Radio signal triangulations. LED boards and cubes. Multiple kinect abuse. Let us wait and see into what these ideas will mature into.
Right now it’s 2 am, some folks already went to sleep while others are hard at work on personal projects. Using one of the Makerbots to print parts to build a Micro CNC. Trying to get the larger CNC working again. Hacking malfunctioning audio adaptors to create contact microphones. Implementing some tangible interaction with the kinect. Testing out some things with Arduinos. Failing to install ofxPTAM. The list goes on.
True hacking knows no sleep.
SketchChair Hackday
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SketchChair Hackday por Tiago Rorke
Gostava de saber se alguém quer ir ao FabLab no dia 6 de Janeiro, para umas brincadeiras
com SketchChair, fazer cadeiras-miniatura, ou mesmo em tamanho real, usando as máquinas que lá há.
Este dia estava marcado para um SketchChair workshop público, mas infelizmente a máquina de corte a laser, que era fundamental para o workshop, está avariada e não pode ser usada. Mesmo assim, queria aproveitar o dia, portanto, se alguém quiser participar e ir lá brincar um bocado com design de móveis e fabricação digital, é questão de combinarmos!
Se alguém estiver interessado em fazer uma cadeira em tamanho real, diga-me alguma coisa. Podemos procurar materiais e preparar tudo no próprio dia, e seria possível fazer duas (ou mais) cadeiras nesse mesmo dia, dependendo do design. Fiz um protótipo esta semana em Valchromat, um material fabricado em Nazaré que funcionou muito bem e tem cor > the little blue chair. Caso alguém esteja interessado, posso tentar pedir mais placas para ter no FabLab.
Obrigado e abraços para todos!
Tiago Rorke
Our founder Catarina Mota @ Open Hardware Summit 2012
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Our founder Catarina Mota is the new co-chair of the Open Hardware Summit 2012 :)
Passing the torch! | Open Hardware Summit
After two amazing and inspiring iterations (2011 and 2010), we are excited to announce we are passing the Open Hardware Summit torch.…
With Catarina’s expertise in Open Materials, and Dustyn’s work in open mechanisms and robotics, each will bring a unique new dimension to the term “Open Hardware” and together broaden the relevance and reach of our movement and summit.
Thank you all for the support, we cannot stress enough that this is your movement, and everyone here has helped make it happen. The support for the Summit, from helping hands to donations, made it possible. Please continue to support the movement as it goes forward.
Put your hands together for Catarina and Dustyn!
Cheers,
Alicia & Ayah
TANGÍVEIS – Residência AZ 2012
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A Audiência Zero vai realizar mais uma residência artística multidisciplinar em O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), entre os dias 14 a 22 de Janeiro.
Nesta edição, teremos uma novidade :) Enquanto nas edições anteriores os participantes eram convidados a desenvolver qualquer tipo de projecto, individual ou colectivamente, nas áreas de electrónica, computação física, instalações interactivas, etc., este ano propomos também um objectivo comum: o desenvolvimento de interacções tangíveis, através da construção de objectos e espaços interactivos capazes de demonstrar que um objecto pode causar interacções distintas em espaços distintos. A ideia é fazer com que cada objecto a desenvolver interaja de forma diferenciada nos espaços criados, ou que os objectos interajam entre eles próprios.
Deixamos aqui alguns exemplos de ideias a abordar.
Imagine um objecto a ser levado para determinado espaço onde está uma luz robotizada. Quando o objecto é “reconhecido” no espaço, a luz robotizada passa a seguir a pessoa que o carrega. Se o objecto for dado a outra pessoa, passa então ela a ser seguida pela luz.
É possível desenvolver outras interacções semelhantes, por exemplo:
- Ao apontar os objectos uns para os outros, os objectos reagem com som, luzes, etc.;
- Ao alterar a sua posição no espaço, o objecto reage com som, luzes, etc.;
- Ao alterar a sua posição no espaço, o objecto faz com que o espaço reaja com projecções de vídeo, som, luzes, etc.;
- A mesma posição no espaço pode causar interacções diferentes com cada um dos objectos.
Podem ser desenvolvidas diversas narrativas – artísticas, didácticas, de “gaming”, etc.
Para o desenvolvimento destes objectos e espaços, propõem-se vários tipos de tecnologias:
- Electrónica;
- Computação Física;
- Instalações Interactivas;
- Robótica;
- Visão por Computador;
- Visualização de Dados.
Serão disponibilizados (a título de empréstimo) computadores, Arduínos, sensores e material electrónico, projectores de vídeo, sistemas de áudio, etc. para uso exlusivo no local da residência e durante o período de desenvolvimento dos projectos.
A residência é destinada aos actuais membros da rede AZ Labs ou a quem se identifique com o ojectivo proposto e tenha interesse em conhecer o trabalho por nós desenvolvido. As vagas na residência estão limitadas a 15.
Todos os participantes desfrutam de alojamento, pequeno almoço e almoço durante o período da residência.
Residência AZ Janeiro 2012
Coordenação: altLab – Lisbon’s Hackerspace
Datas: 14 a 22 janeiro de 2012
Nuclear Taco Sensor Helmet Gameshow @ Codebits 2011
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We went to Codebits again this year to showcase the makerbot and work on a project for the 48h contest called the Nuclear Taco Sensor Helmet Gameshow. We won!
You can read more about here
or just watch the video below to understand the hype.
Our Founder @ adafruit #ADA11 Ada Lovelace Day!
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#ADA11 – Catarina Mota, openMaterials…
I’m cofounder of openMaterials (a collective research project dedicated to gathering and sharing data on uses and production methods of materials), of altLab (Lisbon’s hackerspace), of fabriCulture (a project dedicated to promoting open source digital fabrication and maker culture in general), and a member of NYC Resistor.
I’m a phd candidate at FCSH-UNL and a visiting scholar at ITP-NYU. My academic research is funded by a fellowship from the Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal and the UTAustin|Portugal program.
Also helps run the Open Hardware Summit!
About today:
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science.
Who is your heroine?
Do you remember which women have influenced you over the years?
Perhaps your maths teacher, one of your university lecturers, or a colleague?
This Ada Lovelace Day on October 7, share your story about a woman — whether an engineer, a scientist, a technologist or mathematician — who has inspired you to become who you are today. Write a blog post, record a podcast, film a video, draw a comic, or pick any other way to talk about the women who have been guiding lights in your life. Give your heroine the credit she deserves!Who was Ada? Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852) was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.
If you’re looking to spark the mind of a friend, daughter, sister, cousin, mother, aunt, anyone really — electronics is a wonderful hobby and perhaps a career. We’re doing this sale with the hopes of turning on some minds to science, engineering and curiosity about how things work. We hope you enjoy the sale, the projects and the content we have planned for today.
Today only, if you want to save 10% off on EVERYTHING at Adafruit use the code ADA11 on check out. Code is live for today only, one use per customer. Give a gift of electronics and learning to a special girl in your life.
Filed under: ald — by adafruit, posted October 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm
CODEBITS V – Of course, we’ll be there!
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The AZ Lab Networks (LCD, AltLab and xDA) will be @ Codebits V helping attendees in their projects!
If you need some help with electronics, soldering some circuits, in your physical computing project, do some 3D Printing or random talking about hacking and hackerspaces, join us! We will have a dedicated area as usual ;)
see you there!
Steve Jobs 1955-2011
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“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do…” – Steve Jobs
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