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Sign posts and teaching
I’ve been teaching for over 10 years and recently I’ve been feeling a little bit stale. I want to update my methods and content to be more in line with what I really feel is necessary in teaching, like helping students develop critical thinking skills and learn how to learn on their own. Before, I think…
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Working on new cards for Spoke…
See anything you like?
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LivePrinter at OSHWA 2018
I recently presented my LivePrinter project at the Open Source Hardware Alliance Summit 2018, at MIT, Boston. The talk can be found at OSHWA 2018: Slides are LivePrinter Overview at OSHWA 2018 by Evan Raskob
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Spoke and LivePrinter at the V&A
We’ll be at the V&A for the Digital Weekend next weekend, both days. I’ve got 2 projects – a board game for storytelling about AI, machine learning, automation, etc. and my live 3D printer project. Make sure to sign up here!
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BITLIP performances
About BITLIP BITLIP focuses on creating musical, listenable sounds that people can dance too. Coming from a background in both jazz and cut-and-paste sampling he tries to combine the controlled spontaneity of musical improvisation with the textural eeriness of found sounds. His influences are quite wide, ranging from minimalist techno, classic rap, Steve Reich, Alice…
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t-SNE on Data walking
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writers and travellers and disorientation
“Writers and travellers alike do their best work when they don’t know what they’re looking for; disorientation requires problem-solving.” Nathan Heller in the New Yorker Feb 1 2016
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On Makers and Making
Recently, on an email list I’m subscribed to, this article on Salon by Debbie Chachra came up for discussion. There are 3 points I took away from this article that are not firmly related but somehow became mixed up in this not-very-coherent rant against “Makers” and “Making.” Firstly, as some people pointed out, there is…
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Printing Experiments on the Flashforge Creator Pro X
Background The Flashforge Creator Pro X is an early-Makerbot clone that we purchased a bunch of at Ravensbourne because they were pretty solidly built and relatively cheap. Our lower-end 3D printers get a lot of use (and abuse!) by students from all courses, because anyone can take them out, and I find that students often…
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Speaking at Dorkbot London Feb. 15 2016
I’m speaking about my trials and tribulations with 3D printing and spirals at Dorkbot London on February 15 along with some excellent other speakers. If you’re in the area, come by and say hello!