iMade speelt in op de nieuwste technologieën van rapid manufacturing (3D-printing, stereolithographie, selective laser sintering ea.) die het volgende decenium gegarandeerd een ommekeer teweeg zullen brengen in de productieprocessen en de product-to-market-keten. iMade wil deze technologische revolutie meteen koppelen aan een sociale en ecologische evolutie. Welke arbeidskansen ontstaan er? Hoe kunnen we slimmer omgaan met materialen in deze tijd van groeiende grondstoffenschaarste? iMade heeft daarvoor een visie ontwikkeld en heeft de ambitie van Vlaanderen een groene, sociale proeftuin voor rapid manufacturing te maken.
Concreet wil iMade met een netwerk van dienstencentra de infrastructuur opzetten om lokale productie op maat met state-of-the-art technologie en arbeidskansen doorbraak te doen vinden. Deel van de noodzakelijke infrastructuur is een softwareplatform dat het verdelen, verkopen, distribueren van 3D-designs veilig en vlot kan laten verlopen.
Join How Do You Do a day for by and with digital creatives. Get acquainted with the know-how of successful developers, artists and game and media developers in an informal setting. Choose from a wide range of experts who can offer a unique insight in to how they do what they do.
Don’t forget to bring your own portfolio as we provide an opportunity for young professionals to show and evaluate their portfolios with leading professionals in the creative industry and other creatives just like you.
De nieuwe makers zijn in opkomst. Ambachtelijkheid wordt herontdekt en nieuwe vormen van nijverheid, als hypercrafts en do-it-yourself, zijn actueel. Met Nieuwe Makers gaan we op zoek naar het nieuwe maken en wat dat kan betekenen voor de leefomgeving. Maken is een werkwoord, daarom gaan we verder dan reflectie en uitwisseling.
Vorig jaar werd duidelijk dat hypercrafts, oftewel nieuwe maaktechnieken die ambacht, high-tech en duurzaamheid combineren een belofte zijn. Het koppelen van traditionele nijverheden aan innovatieve technieken en materialen heeft toekomst. Niet alleen de resultaten tellen, ook de weg er naartoe is van betekenis. Het nieuwe maken genereert niet zelden een positieve flow en niet geheel onbelangrijk -zelf maken maakt mensen trots.
Makers + co is een initiatief van The Beach. Het programma 2011 is mede mogelijk gemaakt door de inzet van Click F1, Waag Society, eSociety Instituut, Urbaniahoeve, HMC mbo vakschool voor hout, meubel en interieur, Weekend Academie, Food Academy, Nieuw-West Express en anderen.
The 3D Print Place is the first user-powered platform that provides existing and future 3D printing users with all 3D printing resources needed. All functionalities are built on user-to-user collaboration and aim at making 3D printing more accessible to the home user, academic institution, and small business – all functions on 3D Print Place are 100% free.
The platform is built around five major pillars:
Collaboration – in the Incubation Lab members can work together to create designs & tinker with and improve upon existing CAD files. The Print Exchange connects users who seek a 3D printing service with users who can supply 3D printed parts.
Creation – Members can easily upload their CAD files to the CAD Library and make their design available for download for free or for an amount of their choosing.
Competition – User sourced contests in the Coliseum and tournament style rounds in the Design League allow users to match off against each other or find the design they have been looking for.
Consumption – In the marketplace users can compare printers, scanners, software and filament to find which product from which manufacturer is worth purchasing
Education – The Academic Corner allows University classes from around the world to collaborate and learn from another in shared interfaces. The integrated course-management system enables professors to easily create, send out and track course assignments.
FabLab Eindhoven en Stichting Techniekpromotie organiseren tijdens de Dutch Design Week een workshop Lego Mindstorms. Dit om zelf een robot te leren programmeren en er voor te zorgen dat hij precies doet wat jij wilt. Op het goede moment naar links, enkele meters naar rechts… Ojee, hij stopt niet op tijd! Doet de robot, na een kleine aanpassing van zijn besturingsprogramma, wel precies wat je wilt?
Tijdens de workshop worden Mindstorms robots ingezet om missies uit te voeren. Lukt het je om je robot zo te programmeren zodat hij de missies succesvol uitvoert? Door trial en error kom je erachter dat het aansturen van de robot zo makkelijk nog niet is en dat je goed in logische stapjes moet denken. Wie heeft op het eind de meeste missies volbracht?
Doelgroep: kinderen tot 80 jaar
Plaats: Factory Klokgebouw 5e verdieping (nr 144)
Datum en tijd: dinsdag 25 oktober tussen 11.00 tot 15:00 uur
Open inloop en gratis entree
FabLab Eindhoven
In navolging van internationale ontwikkelingen wordt op Strijp-S in Eindhoven een FabLab gerealiseerd dat gaat fungeren als laboratorium en incubator voor het nieuwe maken.
Stichting Techniekpromotie
Stichting Techniekpromotie biedt een gevarieerd pakket activiteiten aan op het gebied van wetenschap en techniek. Ons aanbod bevat shows en workshops voor leeftijdsgroepen tussen 4 en 15 jaar.
Steeds meer komt het ambachtswerk in de knel te zitten en daar hebben we het zelf naar gemaakt, zegt Hans Nelson, directeur van Hoofdbedrijfschap Ambachten (HBA). SOS Vakmanschap heeft zelfs een manifest geschreven over het ambachtelijk werk, dat steeds minder interessant lijkt te worden voor jongeren.
In het specialistisch vakonderwijs voltrekt zich een stille ramp: meesters houden er mee op, gezellen hebben er weinig trek in. Terwijl er juist groeiende behoefte is aan innovatieve vakmensen.
In dit manifest van Samenwerkende Organisaties Specialistisch Vakmanschap wordt de aandacht van minister Van Bijsterveldt (Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap, CDA) gevraagd voor de ondergang van de ambachtsman. De aandacht voor de Kenniseconomie met een grote K heeft de ‘kunde-economie’ verder in de schaduw gezet. Dit terwijl wij tot 2020, binnen de opleidingen en de bedrijven, minimaal een kwart miljoen nieuwe vakmensen nodig hebben om aan de vraag te voldoen. aldus Nelson. Het beroerde imago van de ambachten onder jongeren is een groot probleem. Voor hen heeft het woord ‘ambacht ’ een hoog mandenvlechtersgehalte, zegt Nelson. Ze associëren het verleden, met lage salarissen en dito status terwijl het tegendeel vaak waar is. Goede vakmensen verdienen gemakkelijk meer dan een modaal salaris. Als de schaarste aan goede vakmensen doorzet, is het een kwestie van tijd dat een goede loodgieter even duur is als een advocaat.
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
In emancipation from the traditional circuits of manufacturing and trade, fablabs and techshops are spreading around the world their free and open source techniques to build Internetready machines, the most famous being the 3D printer. This is where artists, DIY coders, hackers, engineers and neophytes learn and share knowledge. In October 2010, the first Plastic Hacker Space Fest took place in Vitry-Sur-Seine, near Paris.
The first Plastic Hacker Space Fest, organised by /tmp/lab was held in late October 2010 in an old unused industrial building of Vitry-sur-Seine, close to the railways. Creative workshops had attracted do-it-yourselfers and artists who wanted to build a personal 3D printer. /tmp/lab is the first hackerspace in the Paris area. Created in 2007 and managed by hackers in the original sense of the term, i.e. enthusiasts who use technologies in a creative way. Vitry is not the only city near Paris where a hackerspace has been equipped with these new machines which, like their paper equivalent, are run through a computer in order to print a wide range of objects, machine parts, sex toys and even Nutella portraits of the Che on sliced bread. They are all in favour of autonomy, as well as experimenting with new designing and manufacturing models, far from the mass produced industrial goods.
Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects features nearly two hundred projects ranging from the microscopic to the cosmic that explore design’s new terrain: enhancing communicative possibilities, embodying a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological breakthroughs up or down to comfortable, understandable human scale.
These projects include interfaces, websites, video games, devices, tools, charts, and information systems, on topics global and personal. Whether we are hanging out on a social network or listening to a hard drive sneeze, we are partaking of a newly metaphysical and expressive layer of information and interaction that is already enriching our future.
Imagine a CAD program that doesn’t require you to know geometry or to learn special tools. Endlessforms.com harnesses the power of evolution to allow users to create new an innovative shapes without training or skill.
The objects on EndlessForms.com are evolved in the same way that plants and animals are bred. You pick the ones you like and they become the parents of the next generation of objects. As in biological evolution, the offspring look similar, but not identical, to their parents, allowing you to explore different designs. Under the hood, there is a genome for each object. To create offspring the parent genomes are randomly mutated. If two parents are selected, some of the offspring result from crossing over (combining portions of) the genomes of the parents, as happens in biological sexual reproduction.
The end result is a process that automatically designs objects for non-technical users, which could accelerate the adoption of 3D printing technologies by enabling everyone to create their own printable designs.
Jeffrey Lipton, lead investigator at Cornell University, will present EndlessForms.com on behalf of Jason Yosinski and Jeff Clune during the 3D Printing Event October 25th in Eindhoven.
An interesting development in the additive manufacturing (AM) industry is the support it provides to the maker movement, a collection of activities in the large and growing do-it-yourself (DIY) community. In the digital age of 3D modeling and 3D printing, DIY has taken on a new meaning. Never before have makers and DIYers received so much attention. A catalyst for the maker movement has been the open-source systems and kits that range in price from about USD 750 to USD 4,000. These machines do not produce parts at industry standard levels of quality, but they provide access to an entirely new set of customers.
The open-source RepRap project developed quickly, and became surprisingly popular. It was the genesis of Bits From Bytes (UK) in 2008 and MakerBot in 2009. These 3D printers are variations of RepRap. The UP! machine from Delta Micro Factory Corp (Beijing, China) was likely inspired by the RepRap work as well. Fab@Home is another open-source development, but it employs a syringe instead of a filament on a spool. Together, more than 10,000 assembled machines and kits are estimated to have been placed by these five developments. This is unprecedented, and to some, nothing short of astounding.
Other efforts have contributed to the growth of the DIY maker movement. Shapeways, a company launched by the Dutch electronics giant Philips and now headquartered in New York, offers an online marketplace for products made by additive manufacturing. The i.materialise division of Materialise (Leuven, Belgium) is attempting to bring AM and 3D printing within everyone’s reach by supplying the tools and manufacturing for people with ideas. A third example is Ponoko (Wellington, New Zealand), a company that offers a personal factory for anyone wanting to create an object or product from an idea.
Under the influence of digitalization and the democratization of means of production and chains a worldwide broad range of new development and manufacturing environments occur. Examples include the now world famous Fablabs. The term FabLab stands for Fabrication Laboratory and was developed by Neil Gershenfeld, founder of the Center for Bits and Atoms, which is part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). FabLabs are digital workplaces that all use a set open source software and a set of equipment to make almost anything. Meanwhile, the initiative of Gershenfeld has grown into a global network. In the Netherlands more and more cities have a FabLab, each with their own accents depending on local circumstances and networks.
Against this background Brainport Development and FreeFormFab Foundation develop a FabLab platform. All together governments, companies, knowledge institutes, workshops and FabLabs will act as the platform for The New Making. Dolf Wittkamper, chair of the FreeFormFab Foundation, will present the innovative model during the 3D Printing event October 25th at Seats2Meet Eindhoven.
Dolf WittKamper is the owner of MetaClue, Chair of FreeFormFab Foundation and Co-founder of the Co-Creation Association.
3Dtin.com is an online 3D design program. Imagine someone stirring up Sketchup, Legos, and playdoh in a big pot and then sticking it up on a web page for all to use. The web interface is very intuitive and the mix of colors plus solid building block modeling system makes for a fun way to quickly mock up a design. Although, the objects that you can create are highly voxelated (Read: blocky) an unbounded building system like this is really only limited by your imagination.
Despite my best efforts, there had to come a point where I stopped trying to document every problem with the current food chain and get on with making records about other things. There’s so much I wanted to include on the site here, but it’s probably better to let you figure some of the stuff out on your own. Certainly since I started this project in 2003, there has been a massive increase in national stories about food here in the UK. People are aware that obesity is an economic threat as well as a personal health issue, school dinners have been shown to be a disgrace, the Atkins diet has all but ended. The food industry however is still peddling the bullshit line that ‘there’s no such thing as bad food’ and Starbucks keeps opening branches. Clearly, there’s still a long way to go.
On several fronts people are working on alternatives for our run-beaten food industry, especially when it comes to meat substitutes and other eating habits. Soya, grains and seaweeds seem the obvious ingredients. Even insects and mealworms are gaining in popularity. And who saw the 70′s movie Soylent Green knows what other scenarios might still be waiting when it comes to new materials and commodities. At the other end of the spectrum, the kitchen finally enters as one of the last the digital age. And generations of food designers, 3D food printers and a little-baking-chefs will do the rest.
So soon our Christmas dinner comes out of a 3D printer. And QR codes are recipes, cookbooks are called dinnerware and the ingredients are sold as cartridges or pods in the supermarket just like the toner cartridges.
Companies and institutions are now developing new food commodities, food printers, recipes, new shapes and flavours, and are working on the digitization of the kitchen. Think of Philips Design, Electrolux Design Lab, Food Valley Wageningen, TNO Technical Sciences/Food Processing, Green Campus Helmond, Food Designers and the famous American MIT Media Lab.
During the Dutch Design Week autumn 2011, Fablab Eindhoven organizes as part of the 3D Printing Event October 25th at Seats2Meet Strijp-S Eindhoven an inspiring program about the future of food and eating. This to notify and update us through lectures and some showcases. The program is moderated by Han le Blanc, founder FabLab Eindhoven.
PROGRAM
Moderator: Han le Blanc, Founder FabLab Eindhoven
Cornucopia: Prototypes and Concept Designs for a Digital Gastronomy David Cranor hacker, inventor and adventurer
Food is one of the fundamental ingredients of life. We cannot go a day without it before experiencing discomfort and the kinds of food we eat and how we eat them are closely intertwined with our cultural practices, physical environments and personal health. Nonetheless, we have been cooking progressively less. While digital media has transformed every facet of society, the fundamental technologies we encounter in the kitchen today provide only incremental improvements to the tools we have been using for hundreds of years.
In order to bring our cooking technologies to the digital age, we have developed several prototypes and concept designs that combine digital technologies and food. Our hope is that this work will provide a glimpse at the new aesthetic, technical and cultural possibilities, which can be brought forth by a new, digital gastronomy.
David Cranor is a hacker, inventor and adventurer. He is a recent graduate of the MIT Media Lab, where he researched human-computer interaction and made key contributions to the FabLab movement at its epicenter in MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms.
As part of his life mission to empower everyone to self-actualize through the power of making, he has worked to develop Prototype Hackery workshops and presented them at academic institutions, corporate research facilities, and conferences worldwide. He also is an invited blogger for Make Magazine. Since finishing graduate school in August, he has co-founded Formlabs – a new company with big plans to change the consumer landscape via 3D printing.
Innovative food processing technologies at TNO Kjeld van Bommel, PhD TNO Technical Sciences-Food Processing
TNO has been active in the field of Additive Manufacturing (AM) for many years. Over the past years technologies from that field have been investigated for their applicability in the area of food processing. This has already led to innovative technologies for the production of high quality powders and microcapsules. Current and future research is focused on the production of other food structures and ultimately entire 3D food products. This presentation will give an overview of the various technologies and TNO’s plans for the future.
Kjeld van Bommel is a Research Scientist at TNO Technical Sciences-Food Processing Eindhoven.
A Philips Design Probe: Food for Thought Geert Christiaansen, Director Business Development at Philips Design
Food takes a provocative and unconventional look at areas that could have a profound effect on the way we eat and source our food 15-20 years from now.
These investigations, like other probe projects, examine the possible consequences of various (long-range) social trends and ‘weak signals’ emerging from the margins of society. In the case of food, this involved tracking and interpreting issues like the shift in emphasis from curative to preventative medicine, the growth in popularity of organic produce, implications of genetic modification, land use patterns in growing what we eat, the threat of serious shortages, and rising food prices. The result was an extension to Philips Design’s ongoing design probes program with three new projects: Diagnostic Kitchen, Food Creation and Home Farming.
FoodJet printing: Decoration goes digital Pascal de Grood, General Manager De Grood Innovations B.V.
Product life cycles are getting shorter and shorter. Personalized food is the big trend. The challenge is to create a new product that’s even more attractive than the last… and to do it in no time.
The deployment of FoodJet printing systems in the food industry can be considered as Rapid Prototyping’s first steps into the field of mass production. Now it is possible to digitally print edible high-viscosity patterns of liquid foodstuff, using a system that can generate 2D shapes from a digital source at an incredible production speed. Using drop-on-demand technology, thick liquids as chocolate, ketchup, icing, sauce, butter, gelly or dough can be printed in any pattern without using moulds or templates.
Whats Cooking for Dinner?
Jeffrey Lipton, Lead investigator at Cornell University’s Fab@Home project
Few things are as natively intertwined with humanity as food, which is essential to biological and social life. Not only does food support life and underpin social relations, but it also accounts for a substantial part of our economy. This area of our lives is about to be transformed by the work of Jeffrey Lipton and the Fab@Home Projects work on Digital Cooking. The machine layers the material until the item is fully printed.
Working with the French Culinary Institute, the team at Cornell printed a new form of corn chip that was perfect for frying. They also made a scallop space shuttle (also deep fried, and reportedly delicious). The first application is not likely to be in meat, however, but baked goods. One of the first items they printed was dough from an old Austrian Christmas cookie recipe which had a “C” for Cornell printed in the middle. Internal Cake decoration has the power to transform the cakes and baking industry forever.
Jeffrey Lipton is lead investigator at the USA Cornell University’s Fab@Home project.
What if digital communication felt as real as being touched? This question led Michael Chorost to explore profound new ideas triggered by lab research around the world, and the result is the book you now hold. Marvelous and momentous, World Wide Mind takes mind-to-mind communication out of the realm of science fiction and reveals how we are on the verge of a radical new understanding of human interaction. Chorost himself has computers in his head that enable him to hear: two cochlear implants. Drawing on that experience, he proposes that our Paleolithic bodies and our Pentium chips could be physically merged, and he explores the technologies that could do it.
He visits engineers building wearable computers that allow people to be online every waking moment, and scientists working on implanted chips that would let paralysis victims communicate. Entirely new neural interfaces are being developed that let computers read and alter neural activity in unprecedented detail.
But we all know how addictive the Internet is. Chorost explains the addiction: he details the biochemistry of what makes you hunger to touch your iPhone and check your email. He proposes how we could design a mind-to-mind technology that would let us reconnect with our bodies and enhance our relationships. With such technologies, we could achieve a collective consciousness – a World Wide Mind. And it would be humankind’s next evolutionary step. With daring and sensitivity, Chorost writes about how he learned how to enhance his relationships by attending workshops teaching the power of touch. He learned how to bring technology and communication together to find true love, and his story shows how we can master technology to make ourselves more human rather than less. World Wide Mind offers a new understanding of how we communicate, what we need to connect fully with one another, and how our addiction to email and texting can be countered with technologies that put us – literally – in each other’s minds.
Miguel-Nicolelis is a pioneering neuroscientist who shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.
Imagine living in a world where people use their computers, drive their cars, and communicate with one another simply by thinking. In this stunning and inspiring work, Duke University neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis shares his revolutionary insights into how the brain creates thought and the human sense of self—and how this might be augmented by machines, so that the entire universe will be within our reach.
Beyond Boundaries draws on Nicolelis’s ground-breaking research with monkeys that he taught to control the movements of a robot located halfway around the globe by using brain signals alone. Nicolelis’s work with primates has uncovered a new method for capturing brain function—by recording rich neuronal symphonies rather than the activity of single neurons. His lab is now paving the way for a new treatment for Parkinson’s, silk-thin exoskeletons to grant mobility to the paralyzed, and breathtaking leaps in space exploration, global communication, manufacturing, and more.
3D printing at home is going to change the way we are living! We will be able to print everything we have designed in the comfort of our home. All over the world new initiatives start to offer 3D printing services, and more and more companies are using 3D printers for rapid prototyping and/or low volume production. 3D printer prices are getting lower, and some compagnies are offering them below 1.000 Euro.
Still 3D printing is very much a technology driven activity applied by designers and engineers, although several companies / start ups are offering 3D printing services for individuals who want to have their own designed product replicated and sold to others on order. Suppose 3D printing would be cheap and marketable enough that it should become as much a mainstay in the home as the PC or TV is today.
The event exists out of three linked activities:
The seminar will tackle social, technical, cultural and design challenges, discuss innovative solutions, show new business opportunities and will give an outlook into the future of 3D home printer industry.
The exhibition will show 3D printing in its current and future formats.
The 3D Printing Design competition exhibition will show the best selections of designs printed with a future home 3D printer.
In the year 2000 a Sheffield arts organisation opened an experimental internet lab. It provided a free opportunity for local people to pursue their own creative projects. That lab Access Space is now the longest running open access internet learning centre in the UK. It’s helped its participants publish thousands of web pageson hundreds of servers and produce scores of exhibitions, workshops and events.
Access Space breaks some basic rules of received wisdom about how a community computer project should work. Access Space is the UK’s longest running and most sustainable free open digital arts lab. At Access Space, people interested in art, design, computers, recycling, music, electronics, photography and more meet like minded people, share and develop skills and work on creative, enterprising and technical projects. We operate at a very low cost with a minimal carbon footprint, because we recycle donated computers and use free, open source software. We run focused drop-in activities and support sessions as well as one off workshops.
Source and download the publication Grow Your Own Media Lab (pdf): Access Space
Over the past six years, a new method of incubating technology startups has emerged, driven by investors and successful tech entrepreneurs: the accelerator programme. The number of accelerator programmes has grown rapidly in the US over the past few years and there are signs that more recently, the trend is being replicated in Europe. Early evidence suggests they have a positive impact on founders, helping them learn rapidly, create powerful networks and become better entrepreneurs.
Despite growing interest in the model from the investment, business education and policy communities, there have been few attempts at formal analysis. The Startup Factories report is a first step towards a more informed critique of the phenomenon, as part of a broader effort among both public and private sectors to understand how to better support the growth of innovative startups.
