É o ùltimo dia para se inscreverem

É o ùltimo dia para se inscreverem, por isso aproveitem, amanhã já não dá:

Call for Submissions

* * * Please Redistribute * * *

The Open Hardware Summit (OHS) invites submissions for the third annual summit, to be held on September 27, 2012 at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York City. The Open Hardware Summit is a venue to present, discuss, and learn about open hardware of all kinds. The summit examines open hardware and its relation to other issues, such as software, design, business, law, and education. We are seeking submissions for talks, posters, and demos from individuals and groups working with open hardware and related areas. Submissions are due by May 31, 2012 BY 11:59pm (EST). Notification of accepted proposals will happen by July 8th, 2012.

Submission topics
Topics of interest for the summit include, but are not limited to:

• Digital fabrication
• DIY bio
• Soft circuits
• Wearables and fashion tech
• Quantified-self hardware
• Means of supporting collaboration and community interaction
• On demand and low volume manufacturing
• Distributed development and its relationship to physical goods
• Software design tools (CAD / CAM)
• DIY technology
• Ways to share information about hardware that’s not captured in source files
• Business models
• Competition and collaboration
• Sustainability of open hardware products (e.g. how to unmake things)
• Industrial design
• Open hardware in the enterprise
• Specific product domains: e.g. science, agriculture, communications, medicine
• Legal and intellectual property implications of open-source hardware
• Open hardware in education
• Addressing the gender imbalance in the open hardware community
• And any other topic you think relates to openness and hardware. We want to hear all about it!

Types of submissions
To increase the chances that we can include your work in the Summit, feel free to submit a proposal in one or more of the following formats. Keep in mind if you submit for only one category and are not accepted, there will be no resubmissions to different categories because the acceptance notification is after the submission deadline passes.

 http://summit.oshwa.org/call/

Portugal! Portugal! Catarina Mota!

A nossa Catarina Mota, vai falar nesta importante Conferência!

MAKE magazine hosts an inspired conversation and curated tour of the unique culture, enabling technologies, and innovations of the maker movement.

Catarina Mota, Co-Founder of openMaterials Catarina is a maker of things, a research scholar, and an open source advocate. She co-founded openMaterials.org, a collaborative project dedicated to do-it-yourself experimentation with smart materials, and altLab, Lisbon's hackerspace. She has taught numerous hands-on workshops on hi-tech materials and simple circuitry with the goal of encouraging people with little to no science background to take a proactive interest in science, technology and knowledge-sharing. Catarina is wrapping up her PhD dissertation on the social impact of open and collaborative practices for the development of technologies. She is a fellow of the National Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal, co-chair of the Open Hardware Summit, TEDGlobal 2012 fellow, and member of NYC Resistor.

 http://makezine.com/hardware-innovation-workshop/keynotes.html#llf

Inquérito para a Open Hardware, e boas notícias

Criam Engenhocas que toda a gente pode fabricar?

Eis um Inquérito para vocês:

Open Hardware Community Survey

Posted on March 28, 2012 by catarina

In an effort to better understand who we are as a community, as well as why and how we use/make open-source hardware, a few of us* created a survey. Please participate so that we can promote open-source hardware and serve you to the best of our abilities!
The survey will be up until April 15, and the aggregate results will be made publicly available in the form of a report consisting of graphics, percentages, and anonymized quotes. By publishing your (anonymous) responses, we hope to provide the public with insights into the practices and experiences of the people involved in open-source hardware.
Take the survey!
*Catarina Mota, David Mellis and John De Cristofaro

http://www.openhardwaresummit.org/2012/03/28/open-hardware-community-survey/

Uma boa notícia, a Fibra de Carbono do amanhã poderá vir... Dos sacos de plástico!

Tomorrow's carbon fiber could be made from plastic bags

By Ben Coxworth

Thanks to research currently being conducted at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, our unwanted plastic bags may one day be recycled into carbon fiber. Not only that, but the properties of the fibers themselves could be fine-tuned, allowing different types of carbon fiber to be created for specific applications.

The Oak Ridge team, led by materials scientist Amit Naskar, start with polyethylene-base fibers – these could conceivably come from waste plastic sources, such as shopping bags and carpet backing scraps. Using a “a multi-component melt extrusion-based fiber spinning method,” the surface contours of these fibers can be customized, and their diameter can be manipulated with submicron precision. It is also possible to control their porosity.

Bundles of these fibers are dipped into a proprietary acid chemical bath. A process known as sulfonation causes the plastic molecules to bond with one another, transforming each bundle of fibers into one joined black fiber.

http://www.gizmag.com/carbon-fiber-polyethylene/21985/

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