From jomstone at indiana.edu Sat Nov 5 08:16:11 2011 From: jomstone at indiana.edu (Stone, Joseph Martin) Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:16:11 +0000 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] IU Physics and Astronomy Open House Message-ID: <77C2118ADB2A744B85675BFF0B24D98D2FFB32D7@IU-MSSG-MBX105.ads.iu.edu> Hey y'all! I know it's late notice, but IU is hosting it's annual Physics and Astronomy Open House today. 9am to 2:30. http://www.iub.edu/~iubphys/outreach/openhouse.shtml you can get your hands on all types of fun experiments, as well as see a demonstration where they implode a 55-gallon drum, freeze and shatter stuff with dry ice! and they have a smoke-ring cannon! woot! Joe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20111105/291d9c2a/attachment-0001.html From jtillots at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 18:01:42 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 18:01:42 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Public meeting tomorrow, 7pm to 10pm Message-ID: This is a reminder of our public meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov 9th from 7pm until 10pm. I might be a bit late. Anyone willing to open the space up by 7pm? Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20111108/b18ac40c/attachment.html From mistasteve at gmail.com Tue Nov 8 19:07:03 2011 From: mistasteve at gmail.com (SDC) Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 19:07:03 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] [Bloominglabs-members] Public meeting tomorrow, 7pm to 10pm In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I can do it. See you there, Steve Sent from a smartphone. On Nov 8, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Jenett Tillotson wrote: > > This is a reminder of our public meeting tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov 9th from 7pm until 10pm. I might be a bit late. Anyone willing to open the space up by 7pm? > > Jenett > _______________________________________________ > Bloominglabs-members mailing list > Bloominglabs-members at bloominglabs.org > http://www.bloominglabs.org/mailman/listinfo/bloominglabs-members From jtillots at gmail.com Wed Nov 16 10:41:19 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:41:19 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Tonight's meeting Message-ID: This is a reminder of our weekly public meeting tonight from 7pm until 10pm. Come by the space, work on your projects, help other work on theirs, or just hang out. Also, I'll be there at 6:30pm if any members would like to come by and talk about business matters. I'll have a treasurer report. If you are a member, please bring your dues. We have several members who are behind in their dues. Please get your dues up to date. Bloominglabs is counting on you! See you tonight. Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20111116/006cb72f/attachment.html From dosman at bloominglabs.org Wed Nov 23 21:11:16 2011 From: dosman at bloominglabs.org (dosman at bloominglabs.org) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:11:16 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] December 6th St. Nick's Mini-workshops! Message-ID: Come join us from 6:30 to 9pm on Tuesday, December 6th when Bloominglabs presents our Annual Holiday Mini-Workshops. The mini-workshops will consist of: touchscreen gloves, soap molding (make a mold of almost anything with our vacuum former - we have two of them now), shopping bag sewing, bean bag sewing, and making popup cards and bows. Or bring your own project to work on and collaborate. The cost is $10 for adults, $5 for kids. Personalize your holiday gifts by making them yourself! http://www.bloominglabs.org See you December 6th! -Bloominglabs From jtillots at gmail.com Mon Nov 28 15:34:08 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:34:08 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Fwd: [Bloominglabs-members] Smart Materials for DIY Projects: Wednesday at 7pm In-Reply-To: <0C01A887-06DC-4195-B0AE-BAFCF1A229F6@gmail.com> References:

<0C01A887-06DC-4195-B0AE-BAFCF1A229F6@gmail.com> Message-ID: We're going to be holding a free workshop, open to the public, at Wednesday night's meeting starting at 7pm. Check out the announcement below and hope to see you there! Jenett --- Smart Materials for DIY Projects OpenMaterials (oM) is a collective research project dedicated to gathering and sharing data on uses and production methods of materials. Even though oM experiments with a wide range of materials and techniques, from paper-based electronics to homemade plastics, our efforts have focused mostly on smart materials not only as one of the most promising areas of materials science, but also as the one where the least amount of information is publicly available. In this demo lab, I'll describe, demonstrate, and explain where to source a selection of smart materials which are simple enough to be used on DIY projects: quantum tunneling composite, conductive adhesives, electrotextiles, thermosensitive pigments, conductive plastics, shape memory polymers, photochromic pigments, polymers and textiles. We'll also discuss more mundane materials such as different types of plastics and materials appropriate for digital fabrication. Catarina Mota | openMaterials.org Catarina is co-founder of openMaterials (a research group dedicated to collecting and sharing data on uses and production methods of materials), of altLab (Lisbon's hackerspace), of fabriCulture (a project dedicated to promoting open source digital fabrication and maker culture in general), and a member of NYCResistor. She's also a PhD student researching social, cultural and political aspects of open source hardware and digital fabrication, a visiting scholar at ITP-NYU, and a fellow of the National Science and Technology Foundation of Portugal. Her maker activities center mostly around smart materials and digital fabrication. More info at www.openmaterials.org/catarina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20111128/3bb606bb/attachment.html From jtillots at gmail.com Wed Nov 30 23:10:08 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:10:08 -0500 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] slides from materials talk In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks so much to Will for having Catarina come to Bloominglabs and present her talk on smart materials. She brought so many cool things with her. A great time was had by all. Thanks so much to Catarina as well for sharing her knowledge. Hopefully she'll come back this way again! A copy of her slides are up on our wiki which can be found at: http://bloominglabs.org/images/3/36/SmartMaterials.zip If you weren't able to attend, you should at least look at her slides. I know I was inspired to play with these materials. So many cool project ideas! Thanks again to Will and Catarina! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20111130/97844743/attachment.html