ThinkGeek :: DIY Music Box Kit
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Yellow Drum Machine [Robot]
Yellow Drum Machine | Let's Make Robots!
A great wee robot drum machine, just in via Make. Its not that 'open' in terms of build instructions but the photos and descriptions are good enough to get an idea.
I have tagged this post 'elegant' in the third Chamber's sense of the word:
'said of apparatus, work in science, a plan, etc: simple and ingenious.'
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Appropedia: The sustainability wiki
"We at Appropedia passionately believe in the ability to easily share and find information so that each of us can focus our time and energy where it will have the most impact. Appropedia takes on the administration of collaboratively characterizing problems, solving problems, organizing information, project examples, best practices, how tos and authors, allowing Sustainability, Appropriate Technology, and International Development organizations and individuals to focus on what they do best.
The Appropedia Vision is that by reducing or even eliminating the costs of working together, the community of people and organizations that seek to make a difference will quickly shift from ad hoc collaboration to a deeply collaborative approach. We at Appropedia believe that this deep collaborative approach is both possible and essential to addressing the significant sustainability gaps that humanity is now coming to acknowledge. "
via opensourcedesign.org
The Appropedia Vision is that by reducing or even eliminating the costs of working together, the community of people and organizations that seek to make a difference will quickly shift from ad hoc collaboration to a deeply collaborative approach. We at Appropedia believe that this deep collaborative approach is both possible and essential to addressing the significant sustainability gaps that humanity is now coming to acknowledge. "
via opensourcedesign.org
Saturday, March 15, 2008
SHARE festival
FESTIVAL
"The SHARE festival, based in Torino, is an international gathering for digital art and culture. SHARE exhibits electronic artworks, and awards a prize each year for advancing the state of digital art.
Because of recent advances in digital fabrication technology, manufacturing is becoming a digital art and culture enterprise. The exciting advent of 3d printing, rapid prototyping, and rapid manufacturing is of profound importance to SHARE, for it bring the power to create physical objects to the techno-artist’s lab-bench, studio and atelier. It means that digital artists, whose work was once mostly virtual, can create in the actual.
SHARE has chosen the theme “Manufacturing” for its 2008 event for two compelling reasons. First, we want to demonstrate digital manufacturing to our core audience, who are very technically adept people, but not used to the idea that they can create real objects with CAD, fabricators and the Internet. The second reason is that Torino is the World Capital of Design 2008. Torino is a strong manufacturing center. SHARE is very international in its outlook and audience, but in 2008 this Torino festival should and will emphasize the fact that it is from Torino."
via Ponoko Blog
Friday, March 07, 2008
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