Monday 31 August 2015

Take an Early Look at the Big Art of Burning Man

Illumacanth by: Rebecca Anders from: Oakland, CA year: 2015Burning Man is known for big art. Here's a peek at the 2015 installations as they go up.

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The Quest to Make the World’s Biggest Arcade Game

bobble_MFO_2015-5-frontpartial-1024x815To be among the first people on the planet to play the world's largest arcade game, head to Maker Faire Orlando on September 12 and 13.

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Make Your Own Waterproof Matches

waterproofMatches_1You may have already heard about using wax to create your own waterproof matches. Here’s a related idea that I like — using broken pieces of crayon to do the same thing on strike-anywhere wooden matches. The process couldn’t be easier: Fire up your lighter, and hold the tip of […]

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Ars Electronics Stream day 2 meetup

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Thank you for participating to our marathon of labs "Around the world of labs in 48 hours", organized by Makery in Linz during the Ars Electronica Festival  2015 from Friday, September 4th 17 pm to Sunday, September 6th, 17 pm. And welcome !The site on which will be displayed our marathon:http://ift.tt/1Kzp2yw (we miss your infos...)

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Ars Electronics Stream day 1 meetup

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Thank you for participating to our marathon of labs "Around the world of labs in 48 hours", organized by Makery in Linz during the Ars Electronica Festival  2015 from Friday, September 4th 17 pm to Sunday, September 6th, 17 pm. And welcome !The site on which will be displayed our marathon:http://ift.tt/1Kzp2yw (we miss your infos...)

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Unique Pastry Knife Cuts Hexagonal Cake Pieces

Matthias Wandel created his Hexagonal Cake Knife using hand-shaped stainless steel and a piece of mahogany.This handmade hexagonal knife will cut interesting patterns into a sheet cake. Watch as Matthias Wandel makes the knife by hand.

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Workshop: Programmierung in Nix

Am Samstag den 5. September 2015 ab 15 Uhr freut sich shackspace einen Workshop zur Programmierung in Nix anbieten zu können.

Nix ist eine rein funktionale Programmiersprache welche z.B. in NixOS zur Systembeschreibung verwendet wird. Nix kann aber auch unter Mac OSX oder anderen POSIX-Systemen verwendet werden um, analog zu homebrew, zusätzliche Software zu verwalten.

Der Workshop ist als betreutes Programmieren aufgebaut und wird an 30 Fragestellungen die folgenden Punkte behandeln:

  • Attribute Sets
  • Listen
  • Funktionen
  • with, import & inherit
  • Das Nix Typensystem
  • Assertions
  • map & fold

Achtung: wer im Nix programmieren Workshop auf dem CCCamp2015 dabei war: der Fragenkatalog wurde wesentlich erweitert und Wiederholung schadet auch nicht Workshop: Programmierung in Nix

Zum Event:
Eintritt frei! (Spenden an shack e.V. sind gerne gesehen) Jeder ist willkommen!
Datum: Samstag, 5. September 2015, ab 15 Uhr
Anfahrt: U4/U9 Haltestelle “Im Degen”, Ulmer Straße 255, Stuttgart Wangen (gegenüber Kulturhaus Arena)

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New Project: Create a Custom Mini Chalkboard

IMG_3123This mini chalkboard is the perfect size to carry and scribble notes as needed. Make this in an afternoon and decorate however you'd like.

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Watch: Artist’s Trippy Fractal Homage Video to His Father

architectKevin McGloughlin uses time-lapse and 3D imaging techniques as well as Photoshop to create this trippy video homage for his dad.

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Laser Powered Lightsabers Slice Through Des Moines

LightSaber3Troy Powers builds laser lightsabers from dismantled digital projectors, DVD burners, and even medical devices.

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Light Up Your 3D Prints with Glow in the Dark Filament Techniques

Robber_Rex_by_Jim_RoddaThis new glow in the dark filament will have your 3D prints looking phosphorescent.

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You Can Create Fantastical Landscapes with a Kinect-Powered Sandbox. Here’s How

sandThese interactive displays use sand to allow you to scoop, smash, and splatter structures that are then analyzed by a Kinect and projected as a topographical map.

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Interactive Art Trail at Edinburgh Central Library

This post was originally published on August 27, 2013

by Laura Damon-Moore

Today’s featured project is a splendid example of library + community collaboration at Edinburgh Central Library in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Interactive Art Trail, for which masters students from the Edinburgh College of Art were invited to create new works based on their investigations of collections in the Central Library, closes on August 31st.

With the advent of e-books and online resources such as Amazon and Kindle, there is much speculation about the significance of traditional libraries in the electronic age. While libraries must incorporate technology to compete with their online counterparts, we cannot discount the tactile nature of public libraries that cannot be re-created on screen. Libraries are often home to rare books, prints and manuscripts and unlike a museum the public has access to these artefacts which is an interaction that no scan or image can recreate. To celebrate this aspect of a traditional library, the 15 postgraduate graphic design and illustration students will be creating artistic interventions around the main public areas of the Central Library building to encourage audiences to explore the collections.

The exhibition is being filmed from conception to fruition and can be viewed by audiences through following a trail. There will be physical and virtual methods of viewing. All the works are being created by the post graduate students of the Edinburgh College of Art specifically for the Central Library; some will be collaborative and others solo workings. – Project Aims & Objectives

The project’s emphasis on exploration, investigation, and creative inspiration, not to mention its use of the library as a gallery space for the finished works, makes the Art Trail a truly inspiring example of a library-incubated project.

"Youth" by Pushpi Bagchi.

“Youth” by Pushpi Bagchi. Reference Library.

Even if you cannot go to the Central Library and explore the Interactive Art Trail in person, I strongly encourage you to wander through the online gallery on the project’s website.

Read more about the Interactive Art Trail and see artist interviews at the Tales of One City website.



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Board Game Night

 

As many of you may be aware, we’ve been thinking long and hard about running game nights in Tog for a while now. You may have even played a few games with us at one of our open socials, but finally the stars have aligned and we’re now running a regular Board Game Night on the first Friday of the month 6:30 to 10:30pm starting from THIS FRIDAY, 4th September.

The basic concept of Board Game Night is that once per month a game is selected as the main focus of the night, and we’ll try to get a few copies of the game (when possible) so that everyone that comes can play and enjoy that game. It wont always be possible to have multiple copies, so we will have other similarly themed games going on simultaneously when that’s not possible.

It’s free and open to everyone, so just come down and play some games!

 

For our first night, we’re kicking off with Splendor as our main game of choice. We will of course have others available including Small World, Ticket to Ride, Boss Monster and others should we get a big group enough together.

Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you’re wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.” BoardGameGeek

 



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Sunday 30 August 2015

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This is Tim:


Tim's only somewhat a n00b.  Tim is an electronics expert, and music hacker; so much so, he created a synthesizer for the Nintendo DS.


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Tim has used his product to perform live chiptune compositions, you may remember one such performance from Sparklecon.

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Tim hacks harder than you, which is impressive considering his specialty is not in hardware. Tim frequently visits 23b Shop, Mag Labs, and Null Space Labs to up his hacking game.  Clearly a hackerspace connoisseur.

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Tim has even gone through the trouble to learn Solidworks to up his game. The process was non-trivial and sometimes painful, but it paid off with awesome looking results.

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Recently, Tim asked for advice on how to hack is new things.  "Maybe I can use the CNC mill to make the holes in this enclosure?" 




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The Bridge Trolls scoffed, "You've only got a dozen holes!  Carefully measure and lay out the panel, and drill away at home!  You don't need us to do this child's job!"

Turns out, the Dunning-Kruger effect also works in reverse.  "Their research also suggests that conversely, highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them also are easy for others."

Oops.

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 "I started off taping the design to the box so that all of the holes would be properly lined up. Then I used a punch to make sure every hole had a proper center point."  Too bad we didn't think to mention a center point doesn't do much good without a subsequent center drill (before the real drill)

"Some of the holes could be made on the drill press, but because of the side of the part and the bends in it, some of them had to be done "freehand". That's what really gets me into trouble!"  NO, DON'T DO IT, TIM!!!

"Even stuff I drilled with the drill press was not immune to wandering, somehow."

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As I begin to sarcastically joke, "I remember MY first time drilling thin aluminum," it dawns on me that it wasn't so long ago that it was in fact my first time drilling holes in thin aluminum, and they looked every bit as gnawed and chewed by robotic zombie rodents. 

Unfortunately, the diagnosis for recovery on this part was not good.  It's much more difficult to put metal back on than it is to take off, and the top half of this enclosure seemed beyond salvation. 

Undeterred by so much tilting at windmills, Tim came back to the shop last night with a flat, laser-cut panel of acrylic, determined to replace the now-scrapped curved top by bending a new one. 

"Roh'kay Raggy" my inner Scooby-Doo taunts from just beneath my conscious level.   Let me guide you, Tim. 

We improvised a bending jig by comparing the scrapped top panel to some pieces of wood and bar stock we had laying around the shop.


Getting ready to bend, I ask Tim, "Do you have any pieces to practice on?"

"No..."

"Allow me to get you something to practice on first, before we scrap the one good part you have."  Good lesson to learn right here, if you're going to make one single piece, you might as well make three, because you're going to scrap two in the process.



Turns out propane was a little too aggressive

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Aaah, much better with the Harbor Freight heat gun. 

Bend one went well.


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Another one of those voices bubbled up from my subconscious once again. 

"Did you consider a bend allowance?"

"What's a bend allowance?"

*Sigh*

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When you make a bend in material, a portion of the material on the outer edge of the bend is stretched around the bend, while the material on the inner edge is compressed. 

When this happens, the material deforms, stretches, and shrinks in predictable ways, based on the magical "K factor" of the material.  Copypasta for clarity -

"K-factor is a ratio of location of the neutral line to the material thickness as defined by t/T where t = location of the neutral line and T = material thickness. The K-Factor formulation does not take the forming stresses into account but is simply a geometric calculation of the location of the neutral line after the forces are applied and is thus the roll-up of all the unknown (error) factors for a given setup. The K-factor depends on many factors including the material, the type of bending operation (coining, bottoming, air-bending, etc.) the tools, etc. and is typically between 0.3 to 0.5."


Fortunately for Tim, without knowing the K factor (or needing to know, for that matter), his bends were PERFECT. 

Unfortunately for Tim, he didn't account for the bend allowance, making his part a little bit short across the top.  He made the executive decision to cut a slit down the top of the part, and will patch it later with another flat piece of acrylic bonded to the top.  "It's not a bug, it's a feature!"

Nice save, and a VAST improvement from his first attempt a week or so ago. 



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Well done, Tim. 

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Make a Simple Wall-mounted Battery Organizer

Battery_Organizer_Completed_2When learning a new skill, like woodworking, it’s always nice if those first few projects produce practical, everyday things that become part of your daily life. Seeing them, using them, taking pride in them, inspires you to delve deeper into the skill and its greater rewards. Here’s a basic woodworking […]

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Commemorate the Pluto Flyby with This 3D Printable Plaque

3dp_Pluto_tinkerine-1024x906Todd Blatt was inspired by the new detailed images of Pluto and decided to make a 3D printable plaque. Download the STL file today!

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Saturday 29 August 2015

The Labyrinth Game at Trondheim Maker Faire

The Labyrinth GameWe talk to the makers behind the giant-sized version of the Labyrinth Game — that vexingly difficult "ball through a maze filled with holes" game well all owned when a small child — that was on show at Trondheim Maker Faire.

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Get Media Alerts from Your Lamp with This Ikea Hack

lamp_ikea_arduinoMate Marschalko, who gave us the recent RC car over wireless and a racing wheel project now has a cool Ikea hack to share. He took an Ikea lamp and used a WiFi-enabled Arduino compatible microcontroller to create an alert notification light for his desk. He writes: This IKEA lamp […]

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Jet Engines at Trondheim Maker Faire

The Jet Engine car from the Sør-Trøndelag University College.We talk to the driver of the student-built jet powered car that was on display at the Trondheim Maker Faire.

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Backyard Foundry

My son, brother, and I made a backyard foundry last weekend and made aluminum ingots for future use.



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The Elektra ROV at Trondheim Maker Faire

Elektra ROVWe talk to the students behind the new ROV build from Elektra, shown for the first time in public at the Trondheim Maker Faire.

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Watch: Optimus Prime Birthday Cake Actually Transforms

Screen-Shot-2015-08-26-at-12.33.46-PM.png-968x631Watch this real cake with a 3D printed frame transform from a truck to a robot, just like Optimus Prime.

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Friday 28 August 2015

The Megakopter

IMG_3241The Megakopter is the largest electric multi-copter in the world. It has 48 motors with 13-inch propellers. Each engine has over 3 kg of lift capacity, providing enough lift to carry a person.

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The Heartland Maker Fest wants you!

Are you a maker, crafter, tinkerer? Have you thought about sharing your making, crafting, tinkering with other people? Then you (yes, you) should fill out the Heartland Maker Fest Call for Makers form today!

The Heartland Maker Fest our yearly event celebrating the amazing makers in Urbana-Champaign and the surrounding communities. And with your help we want to make this years event bigger and more creative than ever.

The Fest will be held at the Lincoln Square Mall in downtown Urbana from 10am to 4pm on Saturday, October 3rd. We’ll provide tables, chairs, and electricity (if requested). We’ll handle all the publicity, and we’ll work with you on connections through Facebook and Twitter to get the buzz going. We are supported again this year by an Urbana Arts Council grant, so there’s minimal cost to be a Maker and attendees will get in free.

Have a project idea, or know someone who might? Let us know! We are looking for a diverse group of talented individuals to showcase so Apply Now.

Any person or organization who embraces creativity and the DIY spirit and wants to share their accomplishments with an appreciative audience is encouraged to apply!

 

Heartland Maker Fest 2014

 

 



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Carving a Stone Sink May Be Easier Than You Think

stoneSink_1I’ve always had a special fondness for stone sinks. If I ever built my own home, I would want to have at least one. In these two videos, YouTuber The Samurai Carpenter shows you how he built and installed a stone sink for one of his bathrooms out of a […]

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DiResta: Draw Knife Restoration

FullSizeRender (1)In this episode of DiResta, Jimmy restores an old draw knife he found in a rusty pile of antiques at a flea market.

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Elektronenrad: Fahndungsaufruf BULLITT Lizzard King

Geklautes Lizzard King mit BullBo und Billboard 25.08.2015 in Berlin Tempelhof.

Der Diebstahl wurde in der Nacht von Dienstag (25.08.) auf Mittwoch (26.08.) begangen. Sachdienliches bitte Polizei, Larry oder den Parkathleten melden.

Rahmennr.: WLH3089I



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Friday Linkubator Roundup | August 21 – 27

hatchery3Only the briefest preamble today, as things are Crazy (with a capital C) in Incubator Land. Enjoy the best of the best from this last week on the interwebs! As always, tweet us with your favorite things @IArtLibraries!

New features:

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MagicFun stuff:

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