DesignSpark Mechanical Goes 2.0

CAD design tool DesignSpark Mechanical has now been upgraded to version 2.0.



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A New Fritzing–Now With Code View

Fritzing is a fantastic tool (and a huge collection of components and boards you can use in your designs) for sketching out your circuits, but it can do much more. Now Fritzing adds a new capability: a code editor built in to the Fritzing environment.

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ITP Winter Show Slideshow

A slideshow of completed and works-in-progress projects by graduate students of NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program.

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new mc almond milk track for you.

new mc almond milk track for you.

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Equality for all cyclists: The social justice case for mass cycling | Peter Walker

Do busy roads put off cyclists with disabilities, women or older people? And if so, could local authorities be made to improve cycle infrastructure under equality legislation?

It’s fair to say that, for all the government promises of a “cycling revolution”, not a vast amount has happened in recent years to improve the lot of cyclists on British roads. Campaigns, pestering MPs, direct action – nothing seems to have worked.

So how about just taking legal action under equalities legislation, forcing local authorities to provide proper cycle infrastructure?

The results confirm that transport policy and research should cover planning for inclusive cycling, as it addresses issues of public transport accessibility and provision for disabled car users. This means studying engineering constraints (like a handcycle’s turning radius), but also research asking people with different disabilities what they would need to cycle.

We find that most people believe disabled people don’t cycle. This census data puts this misconception to rest. Many disabled people cycle with impairments which are not visible as they whiz past. In fact, many people use their cycle as a mobility aid. It does not make them less disabled and it is crucial that transport planners, cycle infrastructure designers etc. take the needs of disabled cyclists into account.

I handcycle to work. I am lucky to be able to take my cycle all the way into my office but many who cycle non-standard cycles are stopped from cycling by the lack of secure cycle parking at their destination for their bike, trike or handcycle, not by their impairment.

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Legs

You know what? I absolutely love my legs. They’re amazing, and I’m so lucky to have them. No matter how unreliable my tyres, the weather, the road surface, my brake pads, the nerves in my hands, my route-finding, my nutritional input or my strength of will, my legs just keep on going. I have never [...]



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Coffee Spots

The series I’ve been working on has been collected in a calendar that’s going to be released at this years first Glasgow Coffee Festival at the Briggait. Its a collection of some of the best independent coffee shops in Scotland. It includes 5 from Glasgow, 5 from Edinburgh with one in Aberfeldy and another from […]



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Biting off more

I am really really really really really really really really really really excited. It’s a lovely feeling, and not one you’re treated to very often as a grown-up. Even though my life is, by some people’s standards, a lot more exciting than the average, it’s often difficult to see it that way from the inside. [...]



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We have 'a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity' for a cycling revolution | Chris Boardman

In a speech delivered in Bristol today, Chris Boardman stressed that bold targets and increased funding are needed if the draft government UK cycling plan is to deliver real change

Last year the prime minister stood next to our Olympians, Sir Chris Hoy and Victoria Pendleton, and said that he wants, and I quote directly:

To kickstart a cycling revolution which would remove the barriers for a new generation of cyclists. This means a nation where cycling levels rival those in Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany.

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Why learning through making matters

The poppy installation at the Tower of London seems to have moved all who have seen it, capturing the immensity of the human cost of needless war. Certainly it triggered debate, which is always a positive thing. The irony is that in the week this installation by ceramicist Paul Cummins captured the public imagination, so […]



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May Month of pieces

May was a month of pieces, developing new work for BlueBlock Studo with Katy Wilson, making workshops on the voice with some young people in livingston, playing music, recording, and thinking more about how and what an album if I got round to making one might sound and look like. I played a show as […]



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On doing well

I’m not depressed any more. And hopefully I won’t be for a very long time, although I won’t be so naïve as to claim that I’ve beaten the disease into submission forever. And life with all of its colours and its contours restored is a very lovely place indeed. But it’s not all plain sailing. [...]



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Craft Manifesto

The Crafts Council today launches its Education Manifesto. There’s a good debate to be had around ideas of craft. Does it encompass all aspects of making? And while it might seem a superficial question, does the deference to a sort of ‘keep calm and carry on’ visual language help widen out that debate?



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The Radio and the Commons

20th-21st November 2014.

ForestCentre+, 38 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH3 9SJ

The Radio and the Commons is a two-day event by mobile hacklab FreeMachines. The programme will explore the power of radio in contemporary society, and propose radical ways in which it could be co-opted by the public in the digital age.

In the context of the forthcoming digital radio switchover, can we make use of the old public AM/FM radio bands, and turn it into a new commons? Roel Roscam Abbing and Jack James will discuss on the first night, and also lead the 'Write the Wave' workshop the following day.

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Potted History

Edwin Pickstone: ‘A potted history of the alphabet and its designs’ Principal Seminar Room 1, Reid Building, 14 Jan 2015, 1pm Looking at the histories of type design, Pickstone will speak about particular fonts linked to works in the exhibition, including Eric Gill Gill Sans and Alasdair Gray. All welcome, no need to book via […]



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LED Cube

I’ve seen many LED cube projects pop up on relevant blogs (HackaDay and MAKE blog to name two) and wanted to make my own but it never reached the top of my todo list until I recently started playing with the WS2812 RGB LEDs (more commonly known to some as NeoPixels). These delightful LEDs come […]



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I can’t go on, I’ll go on

I finally booked my flights to Anchorage the other night, so now, after two years of planning and dreaming (and rethinking and deferring), I am officially on my way to Alaska. It hardly seems real, but I assure myself it is. Strange, when something has inhabited the inside of your head for so long, to [...]



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What Eric, Gijs and OSP Are Up To

osp presents Visual Culture a Tool for Design Collaboration — KissKissBankBank.



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Chemistry

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Entropy – It’s A Family Affair II

Our resident jazz connoisseur Andy Watt returns with more majestic jazz selections for Entropy.

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Experimenting new interfaces for Radios with wood and fabric

An Interaction and Industrial Designer studying at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh tried to re-imagine the way we interact with radios to create a more meaningful relationship between the user and the artefact. Radios have been around since the 1920s but the devices we have at home haven’t changed much even if they were designed […]



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The Big Move

So, after six years in the Hidden Lane, the time has come for a change. Finch & Fouracre has moved to The Whisky Bond!

For those that don't know it, if you're familiar with Glasgow you may still recognise it. It is a massive red brick warehouse that sits on the banks of the canal next to Speir's Wharf, and can be spotted quite easily from town and parts of the west end. It was built in the 50s as a bonded warehouse for whisky, not long after became a mushroom farm, and then lay derelict for years. It's now been converted into studio spaces, and Glasgow Sculpture Studios occupy the bottom three floors of the building. Two more floors have recently been renovated, and I'm lucky to say one of the new studio spaces is now F&F HQ.

I've loved being in the Hidden Lane, and being part of the community there. In my time in Finnieston, I've witnessed the area go from a scruffy student neighbourhood into Glasgow's most trendy district, which has been quite a thing to see. I think the Hidden Lane has contributed to that, with so many artists, designers and makers based there. I've met lots of lovely and talented people, and of course been part of the Hidden Lane festival. The workshop has been home to Finch & Fouracre from our early fledgling days, and served us very well. It is with a certain amount of sadness that I move on.

However, as you can probably tell from these images, I was definitely outgrowing the space I had there. I'm glad to say that business has been good, but it was getting increasingly difficult to manage projects with nowhere really to put models, and constantly having to shift stuff about to get a little bit of space to work in. My new space at the Whisky Bond is a fair bit bigger, so I've got room to spread out (and more room to mess up....!). I moved last week, and my dad generously came up to help construct work benches - I'm particularly excited about the one on castors!

So a new chapter starts. Wish me luck!



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Alt-w | Cursor

Cycle 10 Alt-w Production Award -

Dave Young, Kirsty Hendry & Jake Watts

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Cursor will be a fitness software application which is also a critical publication, one that is focused on examining and critiquing the political, ethical and economic implications of producing data through emergent wearable technologies.

The publication will be comprised of audio and text that will be mediated through a user’s interactions with an app. With content of the publication being delivered to users upon the achievement of certain fitness milestones.

Dave Young, Kirsty Hendry & Jake Watts, a collective group of practitioners with backgrounds in networked media, digital arts practice and humanities research, are interested in the implications of neoliberal informational capitalism.

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Announcing a wearable collaboration with Adafruit: Arduino Gemma

During his saturday morning presentation at Maker Faire Rome, Massimo Banzi gave a preview of a new collaboration and a new board: Adafruit Gemma becomes officially Arduino Gemma, a tiny but powerful wearable microcontroller board in a 27mm diameter package. Powered by an Attiny85 and programmable with the Arduino IDE over USB, anyone will be […]



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GoGo Penguin – Remix Competition

GoGo Penguin are offering Soundcloud users the chance to remix one of their tracks from the Mercury-nominated album v2.0. The stems for the track Fort are all available to download to create your own outstanding version of the track. The best remix will win a pro account from Soundcloud, one LP/CD, plus an exclusive print signed by the band plus two tickets for our show at Richmix in London on 7th November, complete with meet and greet. Listen to the stems below and click here to download them. Once you’ve completed your remix visit the Soundcloud page to upload them to the group.

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Tiny stroke-only font for laser cutting

Miniature alphabet that you can squeeze just about anywhere When adding small text to a laser etched design, you want to make sure the font you choose will be legible. This tiny stroke-only alphabet is available to download from the Ponoko Showroom. The free file contains the entire alphabet plus punctuations, brackets and a few other randoms. [...]



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Copying CDs is now legal -- but is it too little, too late?

Today, copyright law in the UK catches up with what people have been doing for decades -- backing up media for personal use is now legal.

Until now, every time you copied media for any reason, you were breaking the law. Even if you weren't sharing the files online or providing copies of the discs to other people, in the eyes of the law you were a criminal. Thankfully, some sense has prevailed, but it's taken a ridiculously long time to come into effect.

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Designing the Commonwealth Games Event

An evening of talks from design companies involved in the Commonwealth Games



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Photo

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Just got back from Paris where the ever excellent Bernhard...

Just got back from Paris where the ever excellent Bernhard Willhelm is showing his spring/summer 15 collection, featuring a few of my little gifs as prints and embroideries. See the whole look book here!

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petervidani: Me at work Same.

petervidani:

Me at work

Same.

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The Queen dressed as a cat purring down the phone to David...

The Queen dressed as a cat purring down the phone to David Cameron

As requested by Michael Gibb



Following yesterday’s purr-gate, here’s how I envisage it went down.

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Tasks

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Phoney Documentation

Throughout the year I’ve used my phone to document what I’ve been working on. Often I find it hard to get perspective on how a piece is going when I’m in the studio, but a few days later when I look back at what I have on my phone things are a lot easier to […]



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Pixels

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Real-time times two

Recently I have been hooked on two websites which are (un)related real-time updates of digital (mis)communication. The first is a site created by Norse, an internet attack intelligence agancy (very Neuromancer but without the rastas in space). The site is a real-time visualisation of a small percentage (apparently <1%) of cyber attacks. It shows where […]



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Product Design Engineer

Product Design Engineer, £40,000 - £50,000 + Benefits, Permanent, Lanarkshire Aspirare Recruitment is currently seeking a Product Design Engineer for our client, a market leader in the manufacturing industry with a global presence who has been established for over 100 years. As a result of continual growth and ...



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genius thoughts.

genius thoughts.

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Design and Democracy

Join us for this special event to celebrate the launch of the 2014/15 RSA Student Design Award briefs – with designer Alastair Parvin speaking on the future of open design, community development and WikiHouse.



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some photos from jonnie common’s trip to the lovely...

some photos from jonnie common’s trip to the lovely cloudspotting festival in clitheroe. what a great weekend.

and we came second in the quiz.

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The Squink—a personal electronics factory?

The gap between idea and prototype, prototype and product, is shrinking— and the Squink which is now raising money on Kickstarter could well be part of reason. It's a portable electronics factory, in a box.

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