Archives: repurpose
makerbot as microscope: what we learned
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 [...]
First 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 [...]
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 [...]