Worm-robot with 3D-printed linear actuators
http://zurich.fablab.ch/2016/02/3d-printed-worm-bot-presentiert-im-fablab-zuerich-aruduino-workshop/
https://hackaday.com/2016/02/11/robot-does-the-worm-to-get-around/
https://github.com/tscha70/3DPrinterSTLFiles/tree/master/wolly/Wolly_OrderSetWolly_with_Joints
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Dicb3sjylI
Punched tape reader hack, door lock system, 20% cooler hinged polygons
https://ruum42.ch/
https://ruum42.ch/paper-tape-reader
https://ruum42.ch/paper-tape-puncher
https://ruum42.ch/schlosssystem
https://ccczh.ch/
https://ccczh.ch/wiki/Fillygons
https://git.ccczh.ch/3d-printing/fillygons
Steampunk R2D2, UNDERWOOD and NAUTILUS Teletype
http://www.thechocolatist.com/
Dan interviewed by Ron Orp (German)
Replicas of classic computers based on Raspberry Pi & Arduino
Four-in-a-Row-Robot and other DIY projects
Fully functional, 3D-printed watch with Tourbillon and 3D-printed motor/generator
Physical objects from program code, flower-like LED panel
Christian Walther, software developer by trade, physicist by education, and seasoned tinkerer, turns code into tangible objects, functional or decorative. In the last few years, the FabLabs of Zürich and Winterthur have expanded his possibilities tremendously.
http://cw.kolleegium.ch/makerfairezurich2016/
https://twitter.com/isziaui
Martina Altermatt works as a Web- and jewelry designer and is a lab manager at FabLab Zürich. There, among other things, she oversees CNC-milling courses for adults and organises the Open FabKids 3D-print-brunch for kids. Her projects range from laser-engraved cookies for the Fab Party, to CNC-furniture, to a OpenKnit knitting machine that she’s about to build with Jan Rothe.
How did you start with making?
(Translated from German) “I’ve always been making things, actually, since Kindergarden. Later on I was sewing my own clothes. Then, a colleague in our atelier had a 3D-printer early on. In a FabLab I was for the first time in Luzern, as I heard on the radio, that they 3D-printed an ice cream rocket. I really did not want to miss this. Since then I could not stop making anymore.”
What are you working on?
“Right now I work on a time schedule, that’s displayed in 3D. I’m teaching children how to swim. To know from afar which exercise is next during the course, I made a 3D-timeline from cardboard, to be set up at the edge of the swimming pool.”
What is your favourite tool?
“The CNC-mill, because it offers interesting possibilities to make new things. For example a Lounge Chair for your home or for the FabLab. With it you can find new methods to decorate surfaces with milled pictures and patterns, instead of just using colours. In 3D, with Rhino und Grasshopper.”
Who or what inspires you?
“People around me, that think alike and have similar ideas, people who love live. Wenn I learn something from someone on the Internet, I’m feeling inspired. It makes me want to learn more about it and make something new out of it. And of course people who are coming here, to the FabLab. Some of them became friends in the meantime.”
Fotos: (c) M. Altermatt, Text: @tamberg for Verein DIY Kultur Zürich, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
Who are the makers? To find out, we spoke to people more or less closely related to Zürich and asked all of them the same questions. Today we’ll start with Marc Dusseiller a.k.a. @dusjagr, a transdisciplinary scholar, cultural mediator and artist.
How did you start with making?
(Translated from German) “I would rather call it tinkering with electronics. I started with software for experimental electronic music, on the computer. In the autumn of 2006 I took part in a course by Nicolas Collins, Handmade Electronic Music. Nicolas is also the author of a book bearing the same name. The book is about piezo microphones, simple oscillators and circuit bending. In the same course I met people of the already existing Zürich DIY-electronics and -music scene. Simon Berz, Markus Haselbach, Iris Rennert and others. Markus told me that they just founded an association, the Swiss Mechatronic Art Society (known under the German acronym SGMK).”
What are you working on?
“At the time I made SGMK to my primary interest, later I worked more on the intersection of art and science, also in the field of biology. That’s how I helped build the DIY bio network Hackteria.org. We are very international, and it takes me a lot of coordination. Besides, in the context of the Center for Alternative Coconut Research, I work on a coconut project, asimple electronic tool to connect the world to the computer and thus enable creative workshops with kids.”
What is your favourite tool?
“I would say my favourite tool is the Babygnusbuino, as an electronics tool. A low-cost ATTiny Arduino clone, which I work with since 3-4 years, originally developed by Michi Egger. Besides I love hacked webcams, too, to build new things with, e.g. a Do-it-Yourself microscope for a few Swiss francs.”
Who or what inspires you?
“Personally I believe that radical transdisciplinarity can result in lots of inspiration. That’s what I focus on. Not just bringing together technicians and designers, but rather also work together across cultures. Different age groups and backgrounds – cooks, philosophers, designers and tinkerers – that is my main source of inspiration, diversity.”
Text and Photos: @tamberg for Verein DIY Kultur Zürich, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0