This months Dorkbot London looks like a smashing good time:
Something good - Douglas Repetto: The founder of dorkbot visits
from NYC to spin us a fine tale. Electricity - Mike Harrison:
Expect high voltages. Open source embroidery - Ele Carpenter:
Investigating the relationship between programming for embroidery
and computing. Lunar Lander - Iain Sharp: A mechanical recreation
of the classic arcade game. Dorkbot London 19:00-22:00, 23 June
2009 Limehouse town hall, the boxing club, limehouse town hall, 646
Commercial Road, E14 7HA Image above is CC by Flickr user sh1mmer.
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Nice story about the Open Source Embroidery exhibition and movement over on Wired.com:
The movement brings together knitters, embroiderers and quilters who see parallels between the way they create their crafts and how open source software creators share their ideas. At the BildMuseet art museum at UmeAtildeyen University in Sweden, an exhibition acirc also called Open Source Embroidery acirc showcases artworks that use embroidery and code as a tool for participatory production and distribution.
acircThe idea of collaboration has been made cool by open source software,acirc says Carpenter, the curator of the exhibition. acircBut artists have been working like this for a long time.acirc
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