One of the most well done usability mobile phone apps I've ever seen. Some
artist academics created a feature phone mobile app for undocumented
immigrants on the San Diego/Tijuana desert border.
It was a very simple compass app that also had a tuning fork feature. the
closer the immigrants came to hidden water reserves left out by charities
and activists, the more the phone would vibrate. This was to solve the
problem of immigrants dying of thirst in the desert.
Of course they got into trouble...
<3
http://hyperallergic.com/54678/poetry-immigration-and-the-fbi-the-transbord…
Almost five years ago, Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT) 2.0
<http://digitalarts.lcc.gatech.edu/unesco/internet/artists/int_a_edtheater.h…>
/b.a.n.g. lab <http://bang.calit2.net/> released the first iteration
of the Transborder
Immigrant Tool <http://bang.calit2.net/xborderblog/> (TBT), a mobile-phone
technology that provides poetry to immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico
border while leading them to water caches in the Southern California
desert. In 2010, the project caused a firestorm of controversy on the
American political scene, and the artists of EDT/b.a.n.g. lab were
investigated by three Republican Congressmen, the FBI Office of Cybercrimes
and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where Ricardo
Dominguez, co-founder of EDT (with Brett Stalbaum) and principal
investigator of b.a.n.g. lab, is an associate professor in the visual arts
department.
framework and open artist apis
http://www.walkingtools.net
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
Citizen Scientists and Hackers of the World,
Counter Cultures Labs' Kickstarter [1] to upgrade its current lab is
almost 80% funded, but we only have a few days left! We're getting very
close to our goal so WE NEED people to help spread the word. Counter
Culture Labs is made by and for the community. We are committed to being
YOUR biohacking & citizen science lab.
Exploring science and the mysteries of the universe is something
everyone should be able to do. We are here to support dreamers to find
new innovations. The most creative products were made, not in industry
or academia, but from people tinkering in their backyards and garages
because they love it. Let's give people access to their potential!
We need the community to help spread the word about our Kickstarter and
the awesome prizes [1] we have such as a hackerspace/biohackerspace
passport, a bacterial culture necklace, and/or a bacteria we discovered
named after you. Check em out, [1] and please forward this message!
With love,
Counter Culture Labs
PS: Our fundraiser event [2] has been postponed to Tuesday, June 9th @
8pm, address 4799 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland. See y'all there :)
Links:
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[1]
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1836537355/counter-culture-labs-your-b…
[2] http://www.meetup.com/Counter-Culture-Labs/events/221415647/
Do you have a hardware project you'd like to put out into the world?
I am a mentor at HAX (formerly HAXLR8R). We choose 15 groups of people with cool hardware projects, give a small pile of money for your project, you live in Shenzhen, China for 3 months, have access to way cool tools and mentors, the groups all help each other, you learn a lot, and have a blast. And you make your project into a product that goes out into the world. At the end of the 3 days there's a big Demo Day in San Francisco where everyone shows off their projects, with plenty of media attention, and even angel investors.
The deadline for the upcoming group is extended a few days. If you're interested, please submit your proposal here:
http://www.hax.co/
Cheers,
Mitch.
peoples,
does anyone have a junker inkjet printer laying around that I could hack
on? Or does sudoroom have a junker inkjet printer laying around that I
could hack on? I'm specifically interested in the print head and nozzles,
it doesn't need to have ink or working motors or anything
and if anyone's ever played with print heads before, I would love some
pointers
Ben
Hey!
I don't know if Sam is on the Sudo Discuss list but if not, could someone
please forward this message to him (I don't often see him in the space
these days!)
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Hi Sam,
This is Niki from La Commune. I'd like to ask that you please stop going
behind the La Commune counter.
If you want to make coffee, I can find another coffee make to put somewhere
in the kitchen upstairs but the coffee and coffee maker behind the La
Commune counter is not for the "cafe" / bookstore.
In order for La Commune to function, we need to keep this space in order
and we have requested that anyone who is not a member of La Commune please
refrain from using this space.
Thanks a lot in advance for you understanding!
Niki
someone "cleaned" the 3d printer table and now the guitar string that we
use to clear up clogs in the nozzle is missing.
don't clean up something if you don't know how to use it! i'd rather have
a functional 3d printer or soldering setup than a clean, useless table.
i fixed the motor drivers on the type A machine 3d printer, now we just
need another guitar string to clean the nozzle and we're back in business.
-jake