BAMF 2014: Taktia

Part of our continuing coverage of highlights from the 2014 Bay Area Maker Faire. One of the most exciting new technologies that we saw at Maker Faire was from Taktia, a startup making augmented-reality power tools. They were showing off … Continue reading →



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Form and Function

Information: Information for all students here. Buildings to remain closed until 30th May, please read link in full for comprehensive information. Thankyou: It’s difficult to comprehend what happened yesterday. In the first instance we need to thank the staff and students of the Mackintosh building, who evacuated the building safely and tackled the blaze in […]



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A tangible orchestra one can walk through and play with others

Tangible Orchestra is a project by Picarøøn, a collaboration of artists Rebecca Gischel and Sebastian Walter, combining electronic and classical music perceived very individually in a three-dimensional space. Single units are triggered by people in close proximity and play a unique instrument, with the collection of individual instruments gathering as people congregate in the project […]



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The Electrifying Designs of Anouk Wipprecht

What does fashion lack? Microcontrollers.

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Sing to this fabric and it changes colour

The internet of things is usually discussed in terms of thermostats, light bulbs, and kitchen appliances. Embedding electronics into comforters, clothes, and wall-hangings, however, could yield far more poetic results.

Chromosonic, by Hungarian designer Judit Eszter Karpati, is an experimental electronic textile that can change colour and pattern in response to touch and sound. The magic comes courtesy of temperature-sensitive dye. Audio files, processed through an Arduino, heat up nichrome wires woven into the fabric, making its pattern pulse in time with whatever's playing. In a sense, the textile becomes a material visualisation of the tunes.

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A Good Days Polargraphing

I first learned of polargraphing from either Letsmakerobots.com or from seeing Sandy at the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire in 2013. When I recently realised that I had the necessary parts (minus a few of the cheaper components) to follow in the footsteps of Sandy’s Polargraph.co.uk build I downloaded the files and printed some blind pull-cord […]



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Piratbyrån and Friends at Furtherfield.

“Internet history is a history of friendships, the history of friendships is a history of meetings “ – @monki The place where Piratbyrån and F.A.T met was of course IRC and then the groups overlapped basically because of kopimi, like everything else does in the internet and AFK. Fatties Evan, Geraldine and Magnus were last […]



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Practical Answers – practical solutions for your questions

Imagine you are in a remote village and don’t have access to internet, in particular Google, to search answers for your queries. Practical Action has developed a perfect solution for such conditions. Practical Answers, the knowledge sharing service of Practical Action, collects enquiries from communities, prioritises the needs and develops required knowledge materials like technical briefs, audio and videos that are disseminated to the communities in an interaction programme. Committees for knowledge sharing In Nepal, Practical Answers has been responding […]



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Open Hardware Summit 2014: Call for papers

The Call for Papers is now open for the 2014 Open Hardware Summit. This year’s summit will be September 30 and October 1 in Rome, Italy. The Open Hardware Summit is the annual conference organized by the Open Source Hardware … Continue reading →



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