Lego Hello World

Enter the wild world of [...]

Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby

Philadelphia’s 2010 Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby is set for this Saturday, May 22.  NextFab Studio created some nifty awards to give out to Derby winners that are kinetic sculptures in their own right and include a one month gift certificate to NextFab Studio

Enlightenment . . . one party at a time

Artist Steve Brower will speak at Lucid NYC on May 26th.

Steve’s BPL-003, Moranic Mission recently landed at EKG en-route to Montana. He used the layover to spend some time in Philadelphia and launch a kickstarter.com campaign where he raised over $2000 — which should be enough to get him to Big Sky country.

Here’s how [...]

Breadboard & NextFab get some local press

The University City Science Center is a research park unto itself, and as such is host to tons of fabulous organizations. One of those is Breadboard.

Read more here.

sample objects fabricated @ [...]

The disruptive future of printing

A nice article at http://news.bbc.co.uk on the exciting future of 3D printing.

“3D printing will soon come up against laws made in a world of factories and machine tools, and the battle is likely to be even more intense than that over music and films” –Bill Thompson

Evan Malone, founder of NextFab Studio ( Breadboard’s programming [...]

Bent Festival 2010

The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending.

The 2010 Bent Festival will take place at 81 Front Street in Dumbo (Brooklyn, NY), April 22-24, 2010. The festival space has been generously donated by [...]

art & science for activists' sake: Open Data Kit, data collection and a new mobility

Citizen science is a term used for projects or ongoing program of scientific work in which individual volunteers or networks of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as observation, measurement or computation. – Wikipedia

Citizen Science Projects is a great blog on the topic and fascinating projects taking place around [...]

hacking biology and 3D printing (BBC video and article)

“Hacking and making is no longer just about hardward and software, increasingly it is about wetware – that’s biology to the uninitiated.”

Read more here.

Bacteria that glows in the dark can be cultivated using materials bought [...]

Lumarca @ SIGGRAPH

“Lumarca is a truly volumetric display which allows viewers to see three dimensional images and motion. The system requires only a computer, a projector, and common materials found at most hardware stores. This provides an affordable platform for artists to design compelling content that conveys information, narrative, and aesthetic information in [...]

eatART

eatART is an art lab in Vancouver

“We make audacious and improbable large-scale kinetic, robotic, and
mechanized sculptures that investigate our human relationship to energy use.”