Discussing open source innovation, personal fabrication and a new and better world
There is considerable talk about a revolution that awaits us in personal fabrication. A lot of the news reaches me, but mostly not the mainstream media, YET. Fabrication tools (Fabbers) such as the RepRap...
These are some tools that saved me a lot of time and frustration building my RepRap. I should have bought some of these tools sooner though! Click image to enlarge. On the left is...
A couple of weeks ago, the day before I was about to give a talk at the Wikimedia conference, I had a small set-back. After changing from electronics platform earlier on, my RepRap machine...
Nederlandse versie: zie onderaan At FabLab Utrecht, a.k.a. Protospace several RepRaps are going to be built (five to start with). I’m supporting the group with advise (and of course encouragement 🙂 ). It will...
If you haven’t seen Zeitgeist the Movie, go see it now (ps. you can turn of the Dutch subtitles by clicking on the CC button). It’s free to watch online and you may copy...
The pictures of the green city lab are available at fablab.waag.org. All in all, it was a really fun and interesting event where I met may wonderful people!
What does the RepRap project do? What do they mean with self-replication? Its aim is to design, through the open source process, a 3D printer that can replicate most of its own parts. Currently...
I’ll be speaking on the RepRap at the Wikimedia conference in Utrecht on 1st of November. The programme is in Dutch. See also the www.wikimediaconferentie.nl website
The gears in my acrylic extruder were skipping where there was a moderate amount of resistance given by the drive shaft. Also, because of the distance between the two gears being too big, there...
[update] Inmiddels heeft een filantroop zich aangemeld en is er nu $100.000 prijzengeld beschikbaar voor een (sterk) verbeterde RepRap (volledig in lijn met mijn voorstel)! Meer info… [/update] Dit is een open oproep voor...
This is version 0.1 of my reprap controller. I don’t have much time to work on in so I’ll publish it in a non-finished state (then again, what is ‘finished’?). It still needs an...
Something I almost forgot to share is the optical encoder disks. I made those when Chris made his achievement on the encoder. The encoder on the extruder is an important step towards better 3D...
I just visited a conference about the launch of GPLv3. There was a very nice ambience. People I talked with were very interested in the possibility of the RepRap, and about it being a...
In anticipation of new thermoplast extruder parts, I built a Dremel toolhead for my RepRap. It should be able to do light milling, such as PCB isolation routing! I was hoping to do some...
We’ve adopted this cute little cat. We call him PIXEL. We liked the name, perhaps because pixels are small they can be fun to look at? When he grows bigger we could always change...
It’s always nice to hypothesize about the future. I think most will agree that nano-technology (as in nanomanufacturing) just isn’t there yet, not discounting ‘smart fabrics’ (nanomaterials) or chemistry for that matter. As you...
Isn’t it great that you can script anything in an open source OS such as Linux/Ubuntu? Dcop rules. A good reason not to use windows (for me that is). If you still bound to...
Printcrime (Originally published in Nature Magazine, January 2006) The coppers smashed my father’s printer when I was eight. I remember the hot, cling-film-in-a-microwave smell of it, and Da’s look of ferocious concentration as he...
"If I can build a RepRap Darwin, I can build almost any machine." — Me Because of the experience I got from it, and because of the fabrication possibilities it creates. This was one...
I like my own time lapse video’s of the RepRap 3D printer build but that’s documentation. This guy makes a real art of it (well, actually he reversed some video’s, ahh well) and uses...
That’s too bad. I thought I was almost done. With the 100nF capacitor it worked better. Now I still have the problem that it more or less stops heating in cycles when the power...
I like new computer interfaces. It’s amazing that the Wii is allowing many people to make their own creative hacks that are actually quite powerful. Wii finger tracking 3D tracking I can imagine that...
More progress, more videos! I had a lot of time on my hands this week, so I almost finished my RepRap! Here are some time lapse videos. Gaining height: part 1 (40 minutes of...
After receiving all those bits (from bytes) I had to postpone my build further because of an exam. That’s done now. I can finally start RepRapping!!! To document my build, it would be nice...
The bits finally arived! Too bad I have an exam tomorrow. This kind of suspense is probably lethal. Anyway, here are some pictures and a small review. I’m really satisfied with the quality of...
A while ago, while I was waiting for the BitsFromBytes stuff, I had to do something. So I decided to tidy the things I already had made. This is the result of the PIC...
This is from a survey among industry leaders in Rapid Manufactoring: "Krailling near Munich, January 28th, 2008: Mass production in the Western world is on the brink of a silent revolution and e-Manufacturing is...
Project RepRap I’ve started building a RepRap. Read more… Also take a look at the website: www.reprap.org What is the RepRap In short: It is a 3D printer capable of printing it’s own parts....
Finally, I’ve finished the bachelors’ thesis! The subject was "BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COMPUTING: The emergence of intelligence through evolving Artificial Neural Networks" and it was awarded an 8 out of 10. Well deserved if I...
Watch this video, and notice the funny T-Shirt at 9.39s. If you don’t get it, and you don’t hate philosophical topics (I mean why this cat is alive…) just google for Schrödinger’s Cat.
Personeel van Walibi Belgie gooide onze tas van een trap af. Nu blijkt dat mijn mooie digitale camera stuk is, en ze willen hier niet eens een deel van vergoeden! Summary in English: I...
A must-read letter, addresed to you. It is a beautiful call for progress: http://www.nickbostrom.com/utopia.html
Chess and AI, man vs. machine Source: Computer History Museum Video: 2 hr 5 min 57 sec – Jun 22, 2004 URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1583888480148765375 In the early days of Artificial Intelligence, chess was a major...
Okay, this is quite amazing. Instant messaging has always been a function separated from the browser. Historically the browser was for displaying information, but with the rise of rich and interactive websites there is...
“David Deutsch is een van de pleitbezorgers van de zogenaamde Vele Werelden-interpretatie van de quantummechanica, een uitleg die stelt dat er meerdere universa tegelijkertijd bestaan, universa waarin bovendien nog verschillende kopieën van onszelf rondlopen....
Google Video Tip: Human Computation Two statistics: Billions of hours are spent playing solitaire in a year. By comparison: Digging the panama canal took only as much as work as an average day of...
Every time I head Al Gore speak I feel sorry for the world that he wasn’t elected for President (or at least recognized as elected). These are some must see videos! Al Gore on...
For those who have seen the 3D technology from the movie "Déjà Vu"… it’s real. Researchers have found a way to combine satellite images, 3D models of structures (such as buildings) and live (web-cam)...
The subject matters. That said, the form as well… I only wished our professors would do their lecture like this: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4237353244338529080#10s It seems however, that the Swedish are able to repeat the trick: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7996617766640098677#10s
Google Video Tip: Panel Discussion: The Role and Future Prospects for Math/Computational Theories Source: Berkely University URL: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5154297266379993899&q=neural+network Why I liked it: I’m very much interested in both biological systems and computerized systems and...
The upgrade from Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy Eft. Note: at this time the beta 1 is just released, but I got too curious.
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