Retooling Metropolis

IIT College of Architecture Cloud Studio 2013-2014

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Archibot to Print CAD Data “Error Free” onto Construction Sites

Visualisation. Image Courtesy of Han Seok Nam Archibot, a project currently being developed by South Korean architectural designer Han Seok Nam, aims to

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Visualized weather data for Indianapolis, IN. The piece is made by stacking a series of laser-cut acrylic discs, each representing the average temperature of each month of the year with the largest discs representing the hottest months.

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Needy robotic toaster sells itself if neglected (Wired UK)

A glimpse into a bizarro near-future, one where the internet of things leads not to harmoniously interconnected gadgets but rather a house full of junkies

"Meet Brad, a toaster with a problem."

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Hello, ArchiPlot.

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Pocket-sized printer creates documents by rolling across pages

This teardrop shaped portable Mini Mobile printer from Israeli studio Zuta Labs wirelessly prints documents from tablets, smartphones or PCs.

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Mind Out 

A room-sized single-line drawing based on the flight pattern of a bee created with robotic drawing system:

Towards the end of 2012, as part of The Festival of the Mind in Sheffield, myself and a small team of technicians, coders and mathematicians developed a drawing system and put it to work. The robots drew one line pattern solutions, the shortest line possible, derived from theories on how bees fly from flower to flower. It ended up covering three walls and the floor of a twenty foot cube in one unbroken line.

More at madebyjones here

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Now, when I have finished my inspection, and I am still mad as hell because I have wasted a lot of time being fooled by a bad component – what do I do? I usually WIDLARIZE it, and it makes me feel a lot better. How do you WIDLARIZE something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice, and you beat on it with a hammer, until it is all crunched down to tiny little pieces, so small that you don’t even have to sweep it off the floor. It makes you feel better. And you know that that component will never vex you again. That’s not a joke, because sometimes if you have a bad pot or a bad capacitor, and you just set it aside, a few months later you find it slipped back into your new circuit and is wasting your time again. When you WIDLARIZE something, that is not going to happen. And the late Bob Widlar is the guy who showed me how to do it. Bob Pease – Troubleshooting Analog Circuits

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Now, when I have finished my inspection, and I am still mad as hell because I have wasted a lot of time being fooled by a bad component – what do I do? I usually WIDLARIZE it, and it makes me feel a lot better. How do you WIDLARIZE something? You take it over to the anvil part of the vice, and you beat on it with a hammer, until it is all crunched down to tiny little pieces, so small that you don’t even have to sweep it off the floor. It makes you feel better. And you know that that component will never vex you again. That’s not a joke, because sometimes if you have a bad pot or a bad capacitor, and you just set it aside, a few months later you find it slipped back into your new circuit and is wasting your time again. When you WIDLARIZE something, that is not going to happen. And the late Bob Widlar is the guy who showed me how to do it.

Bob Pease – Troubleshooting Analog Circuits

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Bitponics

Bitponics is your personal gardening assistant.

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http://www.harvestgeek.com/

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Plant Link: Listen to your plants

Plant Link makes you a smarter gardener.