recent developments in 3d-printing flexible objects
Our Kinematics project is one approach to making flexible objects with 3d-printing. By interconnecting hundreds of rigid panels with hinges, we can create…
Category: thoughts
Up-Goer Five
A while ago there was a pretty great XKCD which gave semi-technical descriptions of the Saturn V rocket using only the 1,000 (or…
Cell Cycle – technical details
For a while now, we’ve been wanting to switch our online apps from Java applets to HTML5. Applets are simply an outdated technology…
Re: The Algorithm Thought Police
Earlier today Marius Watz posted some thoughts on “computational cliches” aka overused, well-known algorithms that make pretty things without much work. I largely…
Nervous System @ CMU Design
Special thanks to Terry Irwin, Golan Levin and Jeremy Ficca for organizing our trip earlier this month to visit Carnegie Mellon University. We…
Becoming Lichenized
Recently, my friend Shaunalynn Duffy asked me to give a talk at a Sprout event centered around Fungi. Specifically she was interested in…
Xylem experiments and improvements
We have been working on the system we used to create the Xylem line in preparation for making a new collection of 3D…
on computational design
a brief except from the introduction Jesse wrote for our Easton Pribble Visiting Artist lecture at Pratt MWP last week. “This talk is…
Fish patterns | Reaction-diffusion in nature
Our Reaction show starts in San Francisco in a few days. Throughout the course of the next month, we will be doing a…
Advertising and the free economy
I was watching an interview with Chris Anderson on television where he was talking about the economics of free. Essentially the economics of…