April 3, 2009

Links from my Trampoline talk

Last weekend, I gave a talk about personal fabrication at Trampoline. For anybody who was paying attention, here are links to some of the bits and pieces I covered:

• Thru-You is Kutiman’s excellent YouTube music mashup.
• Stan Swan uses woks to extend wifi range.
• The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $30 million to the first privately funded team to land a rover on the moon, drive it 500m, and send back pictures.
• Neil Gershenfeld is behind Fab Labs, MIT’s effort to let anybody build anything. He gave a good TED talk about it.
• The RepRap is an open-source 3D printer that can print 60% of its own parts.
• Polycaprolactone is the funky plastic that becomes mouldable in hot water. The RepRap can print with it.
• The anecdote about the kid looking for the mouse comes from a fabulous Clay Shirky talk: part 1 and part 2.