Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something [...]
Got favorited by Sparkfun…. bet you can see why. sparkfun trends to no 1 in google(US) searches Originally uploaded by Dr Brian Might get out with a camera, but this is indicative of the day. A day when an audatious sparkfun pledged to give away $100000 of stock $100 at a time to “people [...]
Did not make it to transmedialle this year, but with all the tweets, seems like half of Newcastle was there. However, the nice people that Transmedialle are They dont expect us all to be there, but make media available online. Bruce Stirlings talk: http://www.transmediale.de/en/keynote-bruce-sterling-us-atemporality is my pick for today. The takeaway, “make the future today”, [...]
r For the ptechnic lab (http://ptechnic.org/ecologies/b-ecologies/index.html), I demonstrated DNA extraction from kiwifruit, they have buckets of DNA. Simple recipe, mash up kiwifruit in a 100ml of detergent/salsolution ( 70ml detergent 90gm salt in a l of water). Then heat gently for 15 min, strain and gently add some isopropanol. DNA will start to precipitate at [...]
25sg residencyPDF import and editing in openoffice
One function I have found useful in openoffice is the ability to import pdfs. This is possible by downloading and installing the pdfimport plugin. This means that you can import a pdf, edit it then output it at a lower resolution for screen. (2)
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Bioplastic
Jay Cousins and friends had a hackday around bioplastics and laser cutting. Making the bioplastic from starch and glycerin (see this link for more details) and then laser cutting them. Cool stuff, they were even making different color ones. This is important as people move from using commercially sourced plastic in their makerbots to something else. Plastic is expensive to buy for these machines, but it is all around. SO be it bio-plastic or post waste plastic, ways of reusing these provide a compelling reason to throw away less waste.
It is amazing that these materials are coming out of the factories, to be used in domestic situations. Together with polymorph and sugru, there are a variety of materials to play around for wearables, for prototypes and one offs. Bring on the future, with peer production.
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augmented foraging - cool use of layar -
augmented foraging
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A mobile phone guide to edible urban wild-food sources.
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