Following a tip from Federico, I put TXT ME on the Instructables site.

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On the first day

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September 1, 2014

Final exhibition in Kunstquartier Bethanien

Come this way

Kim’s TXT ME

There is more detail on TXT ME.

Kim’s Edward Snowden Academy of Observation

There is more detail here.

Niklas Roy’s electronic instant camera

See Niklas’ web site

Mario’s head

Now what is it?

Draw something that sounds good

Another work by Mario

Can it see around corners?

Tom’s amazing light sensitive drawing robot

Kovas and Nancy’s beautiful mathematical creation

Queue here to have your picture taken

Victor asks how fast would you like your food?

This fast? (video)

Young composer at work

3 presentations this morning

Abel’s presentation

Victor’s presentation

Federico’s presentation

Links

• The Creeping Garden
• Blast Theory
• The Patching Zone
• The Whale Hunt
• Bear 71
• Super Everything
• The Light Surgeons
• The Clouds Documentary
• CREW Terra Nova

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August 30, 2014

Anaisa’s presentation on types of display

Aerogel is funny stuff.

Fiber Space

Fiber-space web site

Coded matters

Jarl Schulp presents –

Sonice Development

The web site

Julian Adenauer presents –

Rising Colorspace from Sonice Development on Vimeo.

This autumn Retune

Do you know Your world of text?

How about Victor’s http://www.protocoder.org

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August 25, 2014

The Robot Awards

• The most likely to break Asimov’s laws
• The most likely to spawn and take over the world
• The robot that looks most like its creator
• The most likely to get most likes on Facebook
• The robot which will most likely leave the biggest carbon footprint
• The most likely to get lost in uncanny valley
• The most likely to be used for cheering up Alzheimer’s patients
• The most likely to be confused with media art
• The least likely to pass the Turing test
• The most likely to be the next Amazon delivery service
• The most likely to be used as a sex toy at the next Burning Man

The awards

The voting

Some contenders

Early voting

Robot wars – Berlin style

Take a look at the amazing video on this page by Niklas Roy.

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August 23, 2014

Niklas and Kati working hard

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August 20, 2014

Who knows Tim Hunkin?

Paprika pedestrian

Hot gluing

Hot soldering

Cool bending of welding rods

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August 20, 2014

Barbie is keeping in trim

Waiting for the music

These legs are made for walking

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August 19, 2014

Listening

Take a look at http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com

And also http://www.plummerfernandez.com/Digital-Natives

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Need an idea?

http://whatthefuckismywearablestrategy.com
See http://theglovesproject.com

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//
// Becky’s lesson on Thursday
// Read the voltage from the Arduino’s analogue input A0
// and write out the value to the serial window
//
// Voltage divider circuit
//
//
int potPin = A0; // This is the analogue input used to measure
// the voltage from the potentiometer’s wiper

// set up the serial interface
void setup()
{
Serial.begin (9600);
}

// main loop
void loop()
{
int potValue;
potValue = analogRead (potPin); // produces values from 0 (0V) to 1023 (+5V)
Serial.println(potValue); // output to the serial interface
delay(300); // delay in ms
}

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Becky making

Kim making traditional style

WEAR IT

The wearable electronics festival 11 – 12 October 2014. Web site. Two days of diving into wearable tech at Betahaus Berlin.

Another shop for components, in Wedding

It’s called Sly

They were more helpful than the Conrad people. Erich-Weinert-Str. 139 – 141 – close to S-Bahn station Greifswalderstrasse.

aBe

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Please touch

A dead drop lock for the gate in The Wall.

The Google Streetview man comes out into the world

The original

Out in the street

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Wearables

Becky Stewart’s website. Becky is an engineer / developer working with physical computing. She co-founded Codasign, to run workshops teaching programming and electronics, and is a member of Anti-Alias Labs where she collaborates with artists and creative agencies to create interactive installations. She has a PhD from the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary, University of London.

Becky’s slides are here

Examples of wearables

• No Place Like Home, GPS shoes
• Vase at the Tate
• Human Harp
• Lilytronica
• Accouphène
• Kobakant
• Drapery FM
• Etextile summer camp
• Fashioningtech
• Adafruit

See theelectronicshobbyist for some basics.

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Tank Thunderbird and her 3D printer

Have you seen Moment of Inspiration? It’s like Rhino but easier to use.

Her Digital Alchemy web site.

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Back at the Fablab

5 mm MDF and a bit of paint

Creative chaos?

Kovas’ mathematical meanderings

The hard bit

Wait and see what Victor is up to with his tree prosthetic

Anaisa was busy too

What remains of the day

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Randomness

1. Language is a virus here
2. 500 letters – generate your biography as an artist here
3. Postmodernist text generator here
4. Music aleatoric, indeterminate and generative

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Rhino

1. List of Rhino commands

Sources of existing 3D models

1. Thingiverse
2. Archive3d
3. Makehuman

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Show and tell

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Paper craft models from 3D data

Pepakura

Let’s modify the public space!

We will try to make some modification on the public space, like adding some function, make it useless or make it different. whatever. During this workshop, the participants will have an alternative point of view for the public space and can learn how to measure and model for digital fabrication tools.

Inspiring works

• A sandstone block built from lego, blending real objects with 3d prints here
• Dead Drops here
• Trying to fix as much as possible here and here
• The Inflatables – JOSHUA ALLEN HARRIS here
• Mark jenkins here
• Open Knit (Put clothes on mannequin, against fast fashion) here
• Russia Wrap Up here
• The Free Universal Construction Kit here

Tools

1. Caliper, to measure small things. it’s important to measure it precisely.
2. Ruler, measure to measure big things.
3. Digital camera to design fits to the shape, and it’s also useful for 123D Catch.
4. 2D vector graphics editor (illustrator)

Measuring the street furniture

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Making in the cellar

Almost there

Another point of view – low-tech hacking with just your fingers

Mechanical greeting cards

Mechanical Principles (1930) by Ralph Steiner [4min selection]

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123D Make

With Autodesk 123D Make you can turn your digital 3D models into amazing real world creations made from cardboard, wood, metal, and other flat materials.
Download 123D Make here

Inkscape

Inkscape is a professional vector graphics editor. It’s free and open source.

1. Download & install XQuartz. XQuartz is an open-source effort to develop a version of the ​X.org X Window System that runs on OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple has shipped with OS X since version 10.5.
2. Download Inkscape here
3. Draw something or import it from somewhere else
4. From Inkscape save cutting plan (Save as command) in “Plain SVG” format.

Visicut

Visicut is a user-friendly tool for laser-cutting.

1. Download and install Visicut
2. Download the correct Visicut settings here for the Zing laser cutter.
3. Open Visicut and in the Edit menu choose settings to import the downloaded file.
4. Open the cutting plan SVG file.
5. Choose your material and its thickness
6. Press “Execute” to send a file to the laser cutter
7. Put the material in the laser cutter
8. Use the spring to calibrate the height of the laser above the material
9. Start the cutting

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Fablab is here

The Epilog Zing 6030 laser cutter

Cutting

Assembling

Abel’s assembly

Concentration

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Taking off for class this morning through the middle of Berlin

How to get a grant

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Alternatives to the Arduino editor

Eclipse
Eclipse is an integrated development environment. It contains a base workspace and an extensible plug-in system for customizing the environment. Written mostly in Java, Eclipse can be used to develop applications.

Sublime
Sublime Text is a sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. You’ll love the slick user interface, extraordinary features and amazing performance.

Codebender
This is an online development & collaboration platform for Arduino users, makers and engineers.

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Show and tell

Mathematica

Don’t wake up the dog

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The Processing software

This can talk to an Arduino via the serial interface.
Download it here.

To see a list of the command under the Help menu chose Reference.

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Rhino

This is 3D modelling software.
Download the software here.

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Do you know the Fritzing application? This is something you can use to plan your component/wiring layout on the breadboard, generate a circuit diagram and then a PCB layout. You can download it here.

Magnificent Mario

Kreuzberg style – but is it art?

Arduino waves the flag!

Stefania starts her session (Stefania founded Hackidemia)

Stefania invited us all to the maker camp party on Friday.

Brainstorming on the floor

The artwork for our cycling project

Take a look at lock8

Juice not bombs!

See food not bombs.

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