[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: [AMTD] CNMAT Events this week in Berkeley

[miloh]

I'm there right now!

I'll check in later to tell everyone how its set up.
On Jun 11, 2012 12:27 PM, "Rachel McConnell" <rachel at xtreme.com> wrote:

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> Subject: [AMTD] CNMAT Events this week in Berkeley
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:04:57 -0700
> To: discuss at lists.acemonstertoys.org
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> Please come celebrate the start of summer with a visit to CNMAT during
> our Open Lab times next week:
>
> 11-5pm at 1750 Arch Street:
> http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/about/directions_cnmat
>
> We will be making, skill sharing, materials sharing and informally
> learning from our resident  visiting makers Hannah Perner-Wilson and
> Natalie Freed (recently of the MIT media lab). We will have stations
> set up for  integrating electronics, sensors, mechatronics,
> e-textiles, active paper, and acoustic transduction with numerous
> inspirational prototypes to share,  study and discuss.
>
> There is no particular fixed agenda for each day but in the early
> afternoon we will have short, show-and-tell sessions on particular
> themes with expert guests:
>
> Monday 11
> Theme: Paper folding and other dynamics
> Origami experts Chris Palmer and Peter Engel will bring examples of
> their work and introduce their wonderful books. Natalie Freed will
> describe the Telescrapbook. Adrian Freed will share his prize winning
> paper music keyboard, the FingerPhone and introductory work on
> computing with flexagons.
>
> Tuesday 12
> Theme: interactive textiles and other Extraordinary Materials
> Hannah Perner-Wilson will show how she has transforms e-textiles into
> interactive objects, wearables, robot skins etc. using a wide variety
> of traditional, modern and new textile and electronic integration
> techniques.
> Adrian Freed will show some etextile multitouch and musical instrument
> controllers from CNMAT collection and give a tour of our collection of
> unobtanium and readily available extraordinary materials with hints as
> to their untapped potential, e.g. gold plated textiles, conductive
> silicone, stainless steel yarns, stretchable conductors etc.
>
> Wednesday 13
> Theme: Integration and Interfacing
> Yotam Mann will show OSCuino, a new library for Arduino developers to
> integrate the OSC encoding into their Arduino Projects. OSCuino runs
> on the new faster ethernet Arduinos and with serial USB Arduinos.
> CNMAT's  extensive library of sensors and actuators will be introduced
> with  plenty of experts on hand to
> answer questions on how to integrate them into your projects. John
> MacCallum will introduce his o.expr from the new odot tools which is
> great for sensor signal
> processing.
>
> Thursday 14
> Theme: Patterning and Printed Electronics
> Adrian Freed will describe Jess Rowland's work at CNMAT on printable
> loudspeaker arrays and share some interesting approaches to spatial
> pattern design for optimization of arrayed sensors, actuators and
> computation.
>
> Friday 15
> Open making day
>
> I look forward to seeing you all some time next week.
>
> http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2012/06/11/cnmat_open_lab
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