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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Ada Lovelace developed the first piece of software in history, for Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer, the analytical engine; she’s, therefore, the world’s first software programmer! Today is Ada Lovelace Day and we are celebrating women in technological fields.
Here at Altlab we have a strong feminine influence since two of our founders are awesomely [...]
AZ – Makerbot workshop
News report from the forefront of ubber geekness ^^ No we didn´t launch a DIY open source space-station,.. just yet. What we did do is assemble 2 Cupcake CNC´s from Makerbot Industries.
My Summer @ NYC Resistor
This summer I was a resident at NYC Resistor (NYCR), a hacker collective based in Brooklyn, NY. I’m now back home in Lisbon and would like to share a brief round-up of this wonderful experience.
First of all I must mention how incredibly welcoming and fun all the members of the collective are. Not only did [...]
Drum Pads
Hey.
Four drum pads ready to go.
All made of old material found in the Alt/Lab installations, and a very special big thankxxx for Mónica who brought the casings (we are going back to that in a moment) for the drum pads.
So the idea was to make drum pads that we could hook up to a sound [...]
Dissecting old hardware
The last two sessions at Altlab have been a tremendous fun!
We had been collecting lots of old hardware (pc’s, modems, motheboards, cd-roms, printers, etc) to give it a new purpose! Finally we decided to start to take profit from it.
Basically in old hardware trash, there are lot’s of interesting things that still work very well (like [...]
digital art girls @ futurartes
Ladies, from left to right: Raquel Pardal, Ana Carvalho, Diana Combo, Elga Ferreira, Petra Farinha, Catarina Mota, and Mónica Mendes. And then, of course, there’s Rudolfo Quintas in between Elga and Petra :) Note that we tried to hide our laptops under the table to avoid looking like total workaholics, but Mónica’s still shows…
We loved [...]