3 de Abril de 2011 | April 3rd 2011 @ Pavilhão do Conhecimento

[PT]
É com grande satisfação que a Rede de Laboratórios da AZ (Associação Audiência Zero) anuncia o primeiro evento da FabriCulture: o FabriCamp Lx1!

É verdade, será um dia inteiro ao estilo barcamp , dedicado à fabricação digital. Vários membros e amigos dos hackerspaces da AZ (LCD, altLab e xDA) irão demonstrar as suas máquinas de prototipagem rápida, impressoras 3D e CNC Mills.
Caso tenha uma máquina para fabricação digital, seja de que tipo for, acabada, por acabar, avariada, etc., traga-a consigo. Ou então traga os amigos e a família (é um evento também para crianças).

Photo by MakerBot Industries

Como em qualquer outro evento ao estilo barcamp, os participantes são também oradores; portanto estão todos convidados a fazer apresentações, lançar debates, demonstrar os seus projectos, o que lhes apetecer.

A participação é gratuita. Inscreva-se aqui.

A FabriCulture é um projecto da AZ Labs Network dedicado à promoção do fabrico digital open source e da cultura maker em geral. Saiba mais sobre a FabriCulture aqui.

Se a revolução do fabrico digital é para si novidade , vale a pena dar uma vista de olhos à bela animação da NueveOjos Full Printed e à apresentação Schuyler St. Ledger’s Ignite Phoenix .

[EN]
The AZ Labs Network is extremely happy to announce FabriCulture‘s first event: FabriCamp Lx1! That’s right, it’ll be a barcamp style unconference dedicated to digital fabrication. Several members and friends of AZ’s hackerspaces (LCD, altLab and xDA) will be demoing their 3D printers and CNC mills. If you have any kind of digital fabricator—finished, unfinished, broken or so and so—bring it along. Or just bring yourself, your friends, your family (this is a children-friendly event). As in any other barcamp-style event, the attendees are also the speakers, so everyone is encouraged to give talks, start debates, demo their projects, lead workshops, whatever suits their fancy.

Participation is free. Please register here.

Fabriculture is an AZ Labs Network project dedicated to promoting open source digital fabrication and maker culture in general. Learn more about FabriCulture here.

For those new to the digital fabrication revolution make sure to also check out the beautiful Nueve Ojos Full Printed animation and Schuyler St. Ledger’s Ignite Phoenix presentation for a quick overview.

[PT]No último sábado, 5 de Fevereiro, o altlab organizou o Arduino Hack Day.
Participaram no evento perto de 40 pessoas, entre entusiastas em electrónica, artistas, programadores, arquitectos, fotógrafos, amigos.
[EN]On Feb 5th altlab held its first Arduino Hack Day. Around 40 enthusiasts, artists, programmers, architects, photographers and friends participated in the event.

[PT]Para muitos, foi o primeiro contacto com o Arduino, a descoberta da simplicidade desta plataforma para o desenvolvimento de projectos de computação física.
Distribuídos por quatro bancadas, os participantes começaram a experimentar assim que chegaram!
[EN]For many this was their first contact with the Arduino, discovering the ease with which this platform can be used for the development of physical computing projects.
Assembled around workbenches, participants started experimenting as soon as they arrived!

[PT]Uma das bancadas, dedicada ao tema Arduino, motores e a robótica, ficou por conta do Guilherme Martins (Guibot). Noutra bancada, alguns principiantes aprendiam a dar os primeiros passos, com a ajuda de membros do altlab.
[EN]One of the tables, dedicated to Arduino, motors and robotics, was run by Guilherme Martins (Guibot). Near by, at another table, some participants took their first steps with the help of altlab members.

[PT]Enquanto isso, a impressora 3D (“makerbot”) trazida pelo nosso convidado neozelandês, Tiago, ia imprimindo as primeiras peças.
[EN]All the while, the MakerBot brought by our New Zeleand guest Tiago, was printing some plastic parts for the projects.

[PT]O Pedro Ângelo, do LCDLab, veio do Porto para nos ajudar e ressuscitou um projecto antigo do Maurício, que depois de pronto gerou alguma diversão…
[EN]O Pedro Ângelo, from LCDLab, came from Porto to help out and decided to bring back to life an old project of Maurício’s which immediately turned into a lot of fun….

[PT]Logo depois do almoço começaram as apresentações. A Mónica Mendes e o Maurício Martins deram a conhecer o colectivo altlab, o seu passado, presente e futuro. A Cheng Xu, também nossa convidada, apresentou-nos o Seeeduino Film. Por fim, o Guibot e o André, da Artica, falaram do Motoruino e do Farrusco.
[EN]After lunch we had some presentations. Mónica Mendes and Maurício Martins talked about the past, present and future of altlab. Our guest Cheng Xu presented the Seeduino film. Finally, Guibot and André from Artica talked about the Motoruino and Farrusco.

[PT]Passadas 10 horas de puro hacking e muita cerveja, o Arduino Hack Day chegava ao fim, todos os participantes muito satisfeitos com a experiência. O altlab conseguiu concretizar o principal objectivo desta iniciativa: juntar pessoas interessadas em partilhar conhecimentos sobre o Arduino, ajudar quem nunca tinha desenvolvido nada com a plataforma e conquistar novos interessados em pertencer a este colectivo fantástico!
[EN]After 10 hours of pure hacking and lots of beer, the Arduino Hack Day came to an end, and everyone left with a smile on their faces. We were able to attain the main goals for this event: gather people interested in sharing knowledge about the Arduino, help those who had never used the platform, and have several new members join our beloved collective.

[PT]Por último, fica aqui um agradecimento muito especial aos membros do altlab que contribuíram na organização deste evento:
[EN]Finally, a word of special thanks to the altlab members who contributed to making the Arduino Hack Day possible:

Andre Almeida, Ferdi Meier, Guilherme Martins, Leonardo Marques, Manuel Alves, Mauricio Martins, Mónica Mendes, Nuno João, Paulo Rodrigues e Pedro Ângelo (LCD).

Some photos by João Nogueira e Rita Carvalho.

Flickr Photo Set: http://tinyurl.com/6f7vhsx

English version soon!

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.

For those who have been present at alt lab meetings know by now that I’m currently developing a 3D Laser Printer.

Laser projection

As far as electronics everything is almost good to go with some minor tweaks, but I’m facing a giant problem now. I  don’t have time to develop software for this pet and I don’t want it to be delayed for much longer than it already has been, so I’m requesting for kind hearted developers to step up and help me in this task.

Any help is welcome please contact me to lj dot marques@fct dot unl dot pt (replace “dot” for “.”).

Current device

Please adress this Git Hub repository for your kind code donations:

http://github.com/Reonarudo/O3DLP

Explanation of device components.

After many days of work, stress and fun, we seem to have managed to pull through 10 projects to showcase at O Espaço do Tempo! The exhibition opened yesterday, 12th July at Convento da Saudação and will remain in exhibit until the end of the month.

We also have a mini-site with bios of the authors and descriptions of the works, temporarily hosted here. Not only of the works present at the exhibition but also a few others developed during the residency that couldn’t be exhibited by one reason or another. Check them out!

Big thanks are in order to everyone at O Espaço do Tempo for the opportunity we had, and all the in loco support to our needs, you rock. :)

2 days to go until the exhibit opening of the Audiencia Zero Labs residency at O Espaço Do Tempo!

A few folks seem to be missing in action. Mauricio is back with some news from Interactivos to lend us a hand on pending projects. Mónica and Pedro are still working on B-wind!. Margarida working on his robot Freddy. Victor Silva rehearsing his The Last Words of Dominico. Victor and Marco working on Discardable Beauty. Guilherme finishing his Róbotica Criativa works. And me finishing up Meta Gen Haiku. Catarina and Joel should also show up tomorow with their Micro Dérive.

Website with more info on the presented projects should go online soon. In the meantime if you should show up on Monday the 12th July in Montemor-O-Novo for the exhibit. We will have 7 projects installed under exhibition until the 31st July, and 2 liveacts presented on the exhibition day 12th July.

In the meantime we’ll leave you with some important t-shirt quote material we have recently acquired:
“48 horas são 6 dias de trabalho, em turnos de 8 horas”
“Eu só faço projection mapping quando estou bêbado”
“Não tens pincel para isso. Vai antes de rolo.”
“Queres falar ao telefone? Fala aí! *slap*”

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

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.

So we were happy with the physical setup which, in conjunction with ReplicatorG’s control panel, proved very useful for finding and tracking microorganisms within the sample.

But we also wanted to try an automated scan.

So the next step was to generate a path for the camera. We made a bunch of experiments with MakerBot’s Frostruder Tool Sweet, but eventually an stl + skeinforge, with a feedrate of 12 mm/m, turned out to be the best solution.

Finally, the microscope camera (which is a cheap webcam with a macro lens that Joel flipped upside down) was connected to his Processing script that records both video and stills from the incoming video feed.

Video of fist automated scan (sample is moss from a well).

Joel will continue to work on this as part of his art project, but this setup seems to be useful for a few other things:
- Record microscopic images of each and every area of a sample: just feed the makerbot a grid-like design, set the processing script to take a photo of each quadrant, go enjoy the great outdoors, and when you return to the lab you’ll have all the images waiting for you on your hard drive.
- Automatically capture images of live bacteria: we’ll try to do this by having the processing script track certain types of motion and capture stills when it’s detected.
- Some dancers here at the AZ residency also became very interested in using it as live video feed for performance.

Well, that’s it for now. We’re going to get more coffee and think of a way to make an action movie starring nematodes and tardigrades :)

Datas: 19 de Out a 1 de Nov de 2009

Local: Lisboa (espaço a anunciar)

Horários:

19:30 às 22:30 (dias de semana)

11:00 às 19:00 (fins de semana)

total de 58h

Informação e inscrições: http://www.audienciazero.org/cct/3dprinting

Organização: Audiência Zero (altLab + LCD)

Contacto: catarinamota (at) audienciazero (dot) org

(inscrições abertas :: número limitado de vagas)

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A impressão 3D é uma forma original de impressão, no âmbito da tecnologia de prototipagem, em que um objecto tridimensional é criado por uma máquina a partir da acumulação de camadas sucessivas de um dado material (Wikipedia).

O Workshop

O objectivo do workshop é a construção e utilização de uma impressora 3D open source (modelo MakerBot). Os participantes irão construir a máquina de raiz: desde a montagem das componentes electrónicas e extrusor, passando pela mecânica, até à junção de todas as peças. Irão ainda adquirir e aperfeiçoar aptidões e técnicas nas área de fabrico de electrónica, mecânica, modelação 3D, fabricação digital e resolução de problemas com impressoras 3D. O workshop será ainda um lugar privilegiado para adquirir conhecimentos sobre os mais diversos tópicos, como teoria da electrónica, design de firmware, engenharia mecânica, protocolos de série, fabricação digital e desenho 3D.

A impressora 3D construída durante o workshop ficará posteriormente disponível para os membros do altLab (qualquer interessado se pode inscrever no altLab se assim o desejar). Os participantes que desejem construir a sua própria máquina, e levá-la para casa, terão que adquirir o respectivo kit open source no site da MakerBot.

Zach Hoeken

Zach Hoeken likes to dream big, fail big, and win big. His true passion in life is acting as a catalyst and helping others do amazing things. Whether it is creating open source micro controllers (sanguino.cc), robot controller software (replicat.org), object sharing websites (thingiverse.com), self replicating 3D printers (reprap.org), or hacker collectives (nycresistor.com) there is one central purpose: to help other people help themselves create an awesome world to live in. He hopes that someday we can create a world that surpasses even the wildest futures portrayed in science fiction. He thinks the universe is and will continue to be completely rad. Do you want to help?

Datas e Valores para inscrição no workshop:

Inscrições até 31 de Julho: 200€*

(50% no acto de inscrição + 50% até 19 de Setembro)

Inscrições após 31 de Julho: 250€*

(pagos no acto de inscrição)

* não reembolsável