Lectures

3D milling workshop at AS220

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At FabLab AS220 in Providence, I gave a workshop on how to make wooden multicopter propellers with two-sided milling. The trick is to use a zero position in the middle of your files. Then you can do a separate 2D drilling job in order to make alignment holes all the way through your material and into the sacrificial layer. When you flip you material to work from the other side, you use wooden plugs through these holes in order to position your part accurately. See the pics for reference, follow this link to download the propeller STL files:

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Handshake Gorilla workshop at FabLab Kamakura

Unexpectedly the gorillas would respond to eachother when their hand sensors touched. Fighting gorillas!

In Kamakura I gave a workshop with the Handshake Gorilla Arduino kit I designed for FabLab Manchester. Great fun to make robot gorillas in japan. The kit is meant to be a playful introduction to interaction design with the Arduino. When you grab the gorillas hand, you trigger a switch that makes a servo motor move the arm up and down. The result is a very polite handshaking gorilla. By using the Kinect skeleton tracker in Firefly, we also played with controlling the RoboGorillas with our own arm movements.

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Digital Garden workshop

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I gave a series of three workshop evenings her in FabLab Sevilla. The main focus was teaching parametric design for digital fabrication and prototyping interactivity. We played with tools like Grasshopper, Firefly, Arduino and the Kinect in combination.

The exercises were centred around the Digital Garden project currently being developed at FabLab Sevilla. The participations made “bonsai” scale interactive elements for an urban garden. Continue Reading →

Workshop with Business creation and Entrepreneurship students

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A group of master students at the University of Tromsø are in applying design thinking in their business processes. I introduced them to the international FabLab network and and the prototyping possibilities of FabLab Lyngen. They were very excited to learn about the new possibilities of implementing innovation through an open source FabLab approach.

I explained how digital design and manufacturing can be both used for product development and distribution. They learned to use the open source 2D vector program InkScape for quickly prototyping ideas in the FabLab, and applied these skills on some mock-ups ideas for their case study companies. Pictures by Joanna Grygieńć Continue Reading →

Lecture open source and ego in the design process

The Prezi presentation from my lecture on open source design and the role of your designer ego at the Willem de Kooning Academy, march 15th 2012.

 

Open Source Design – WdKA on Prezi

Open source design workshop

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HONF organized a workshop on spen source design and digital fabrication. I presented my views, approach and findings so far in my research. In the coming year, HONF will organize an open design competition in the style of the Unlimited Design Contest. HONF has a very high level of sharing and openness in their work, at the same time many other artists in Yogyakarta are very protective. It will be very interesting to see how javeneese culture will merge with open design practises. Continue Reading →

Teaching open source design via Skype

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I am teaching open source design and digital manufacturing to a group of students at Sint Lucas Boxtel. It is an educational experiment looking into the possibilities of teaching over long distance. Thanks to the machines of the HONFablab, I am able to create physical copies of the work created by my students at the other side of the world. We use Dropbox to share design files and Skype video conferencing for  tutoring.

The students are developing an open source tile system for student living. Tiles with different functions can be clicked together to form a wall of personal accessories. Both the the library of 3D printable tiles and the connection system are Open Source. Continue Reading →

Grasshopper workshop

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I gave an introduction to Grasshopper here in the HONFablab. The participants learned to use basic tools and workflows for parametric design. As an example we created an attractor field that creates a landscape of cylinders and a column of spiralling wires. Continue Reading →

Prezi from lecture “Open source design and digital manufacturing”

Here is the presentation from my lecture “Open source design and digital manufacturing”, given at Sint Lucas Boxtel 13/9-2011: