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2006

Nat Torkington

Nat Torkington

Makers at EuroOSCON

We've got another Make Fest at EuroOSCON on September 20th. I just got the final list of Makers from the two Make whip-crackers, Shawn and Katy:

  • Ulla Maaria-Mutanen - craft projects, Maker Manifesto
  • Ewan Spence - podcasting projects
  • Paul Granjon -sexed (and other types) robots
  • Fabienne Serriere - electronics and computer hacks
  • Attila Csordas -- how to isolate stem cells from your baby's placenta, in a rent lab or at home
  • Nadya Peek - tactile feedback suit, solder a fabric keyboard, stuffed robots (plush animals) and check various abilities with RFID
  • Bre Pettis - MAKE video how-tos and various podcasts
  • Mark Hoestra - master the stuff around you, various hardware hacks
  • Johan Van den Brande -- small robots (nanosumo and others, small indoor RC planes
  • Rene Grau -- PC espresso machine
  • Ian Lesnet - hardware devices that collect data and push it to the web.
  • Hans Krohn - homemade flight simulator
  • Johanses Taelman - a simple two-handed VR user interface, a spherical robot, a sensor-musical instrument
  • code31 - an open studio for research, development ,and discussion about techniques and methodologies in media art. It attempts to stimulate interchange between several artistic disciplines.


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Comments: 2

  Debbie M [09.11.06 11:57 PM]

Cool! I'm heading over to Brussels for OSCON and looking forward to checking this out.

Deb

  david Ivory [09.19.06 12:55 AM]

Related to Make I guess in that you need a grounding in the basic tools before you can advance to make anything bigger ...



http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2006/09/14/basic/index.html

Why Johnny Can't Code


... is an article about the lack of simple programming environments on the current generation of computers... and a worry that the future Makers will not have the grounding that the current generation of Boomers and Gen X kids had... programming simple programmes on their home computer.

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