3D printing: octopus

Timelapse of printing an octopus on the Lulzbot AO-100.

3D printing can allow various reproductions in an instant!

Hacking: The Chandelier

Pascal Anson shows how to create or "hack" your own chandelier out of everyday items around you and lots and lots of tape!
= a fraction of the cost for an actual chandelier that serves the same purpose!

Aurora is a usb powered multichannel mixer in a typical dj form factor. the device features two linear channel faders, a single a/b crossfader and eight backlit buttons. twenty four backlit knobs allow you to control effects. aurora, unlike most midi controllers, enhances performances with controllable ambient lighting. aurora easily integrates with your favorite midi compatible software.

Open Source Hardware: Aurora

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase (to charity) are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.

Crowdsourcing: Ten Thousand Cents