Jaipur Foot Organisation

August 28th, 2009

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The Jaipur Foot organisation produces the most low cost lower limb prosthetics in the world, fitting around 200 patients a day with above the knee or below the knee limbs […]

Appropriate Technology in Vigyan Ashram

August 20th, 2009

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Setting up a FabLab at the College of Engineering, Pune, India

August 2nd, 2009

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I’m in India for all of August to help set up some FabLabs […]

Low-tech spectroscopy for wearable environment sensors

July 24th, 2009

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With the tails, I’m especially interested in sensing pollution in the environment. I’ve looked […]

Deer Isle

July 17th, 2009

The local view

Together with Tom Lutz, Jonthan Ward and Shawn Wallace I went up to Haystack Mountain School of Crafts to set up some FabLab machines and do projects with the artists that go there.

Tails and body extensions

June 29th, 2009

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Sexy weekend hacks and long term participatory design

June 20th, 2009

Nadya talks about prosthestics

At Mediamatic I gave a talk about why I think making things is important.

Techno clothing workshops

June 16th, 2009

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Four half-day techno-clothing workshops in Amsterdam.

Basic AVR programming with the Tiny45

June 8th, 2009

I’ve been doing some figuring out of different (cheaper, smaller, more customisable) platforms to work with than the arduino lately, and in the interest of staying small I’m working with the ATTiny45.

I’m programming in C, partially because of initial assembly fright and partially because of the lack of an assembly compiler for the mac. […]

Make faire with the Media Lab

June 2nd, 2009

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A vanload of grad students headed out to SFO for Maker faire!