Things to make things out of
The Jupyter Notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents that contain live code, equations, visualizations and narrative text. That means you can program CircuitPython in it! You can also use Jupyter Notebooks for many other programming tasks, including processingJS. In fact, you should go through the "classic notebook"… Continue reading Using Jupyter Notebooks with arduino (CircuitPython)
If you have any interest in resisting power structures (government, corporate), or a radical concern with decentralized systems, or maybe you just think that backdoors lead to general security failure, or as another example of thinking about coercion resistant strategies. So, you might like: Creating a "coercion resistant" communications system from boingboing.net (which they got… Continue reading Coercion-Resistant Design
Last year I saw a digital spinning machine, project HILO, and talked with weaver who built it, Sara Diaz Rodriguez. I was excited by the engineering (arduino driven), and we talked about working together. The project & Sara Diaz Rodriguez was at DDW again with the next generation machine (all opensource!). Looks like I'll go… Continue reading Notes from DDW Part 1
It's for clothing a black, tight-fitting full body suit covered in 350 white markers [take] photos with a smartphone. The company's algorithm then turns those images into an accurate 3D scan of your body, allowing you to order precisely-fitting clothes Can we hack it to get access to the 3d model? I wonder if the… Continue reading 3D Body Shape Capture
Seems to be "cured" graphene oxide, but a technique for 3D Printing To create these complex structures, Hensleigh started with graphene oxide, a precursor to graphene, crosslinking the sheets to form a porous hydrogel. Breaking the graphene oxide hydrogel with ultrasound and adding light-sensitive acrylate polymers, Hensleigh could use projection micro-stereolithography
Watch the frenetic behavior. “It’s called a one-degree-of-freedom structure, in which you just need to turn one crank and the whole thing moves in the way that you want,” Demaine explains. “It lets you transfer just one degree of freedom into a whole complicated motion, all through the mechanics of the structure.” This is an… Continue reading Self-folding tiny origami robots
in Why Love Generative Art? (via kottke.org) I see a clear line of influence on generative art starting from Cézanne and shooting straight through.... a simplified definition of generative art ... some non-technical examples of how generative art works ... history of generative art Relevant, of course, to The Sympathy of Things.
In the paper Origami - inspired Cellular Metamaterial with Anisotropic Multistability we create a family of origami-inspired cellular metamaterials which can be programmed to have various stability characteristics and mechanical responses in three independent orthogonal directions. ... Our study provides a platform to design programmable three-dimensional metamaterials significantly broadening the application envelope of origami. Metamaterials… Continue reading DIY Metamaterials from Origami
A tool for simulating origami by Amanda Ghassaei This app allows you to simulate how any origami crease pattern will fold. Actually, it's a "solver": iteratively solving for small displacements in the geometry of an initially flat sheet due to forces exerted by creases. Does it work? Is it useful? How does it help you… Continue reading Origami Simulator
Microfluidic skin-on-a-chip device Hack this.
Via boingboing: The very clever Electron Plumber figured all this out and built an LED "candle" that goes out when you blow on it, using the LED itself as a sensor that detects voltage drops (caused by cool air, caused by blowing) Realizing a side effect can be exploited is cool. In various incarnations of… Continue reading Its Own Sensor: Side Effects
Chibitronics makes circuit stickers and other tools for paper circuits, which blends circuit building and programming with arts and crafts. It’s a friendly way to learn, design and create your own electronics. Looks at least like a good way to explore making a circuit, and learn some basics. Is it good for making a real… Continue reading Chibitronics: The Lego of Electronics?
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