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HiTech Creativity

Why?

Because we always look for new ways to express different feelings and ideas. Each new tool, from the pen to the brush, from the carved stone to the hacking of advertisement space, opens new possibility.

Overall, by extending your reach in the same way a stick extend your arms, those technologies expend the realm of what you can conceive and thus of what you can do.

The technologies

• Internet, cf my previous article
• 3D Printer (and much more)
  • FabLab from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA)
    • http://fabathome.org/Fab@Home
  • Open3DP an open 3D printing forum
  • iFab (apparently also made by the FabLab team) from Festo
  • RepRap that recently (April 19 2009) went even further and made its First reprapped circuit
    • multiples sources to buy parts including Reprap-Source, BitsFromBytes, ...
  • 25C3: Objects as Software: The Coming Revolution How RepRap and physical compilers will change the world as we know it (and already have) by Zach Hoeken, 25th Chaos Communication Congress, 2008
  • for the "gourmand" amongst us the CandyFab that does not use plastic to print but... sugar!
  • Maker Bot open source DIY 3D Printer.
  • 25C3: Rapid Prototype Your Life by Bre, 25th Chaos Communication Congress, 2008 gives a very nice overview
    • with the presented thingiverse.com to share designs
  • From Nothing, Something: One Layer at a Time by Jim Banke, NASA September 2009
  • large-scale
    • RockPrinter.com, 3D Mineral Printer using hydraulic minerals such as cement and plaster as a print medium.
      • http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~minides/
    • d_shape using artificial sandstone
    • Contour Crafting by USC Center for Rapid Automated Fabrication Technologie
  • Organ Printing Understanding and employing multicellular self-assembly, University of Missouri
  • History of printing and 3D printing from Wikipedia.
  • BuildLog.net Document your builds!
• Immersion caves
  • Amazing 3D immersion technology, IDEO Labs, April 2009
  • Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, TED, February 2009
    • embed only this video to illustrate how visualization/interaction matters to creativity as much as in art that in science?
  • Immersion Technology (with MLT markerless tracking technology)
  • VirtuSphere locomotion platform that allows users to be completely immersed into their interactive virtual experience
• Augmented Reality
  • Canon MR Aquarium, October 2008, a mixed-reality (MR) development project
  • Augmented Times
  • Augmented Reality enables computer-enhanced work by Mike Hanlon, gizmag, June 2009
  • Augmented Reality Overview on GigantiCo including BMW reparing prototype video
  • ARToolKit from the HIT Lab at the University of Washington
    • ARDeskTop (japanese) by wah_wah_hawah (including YouTube videos)
  • ARTag
• Virtual worlds
  • Croquet
  • SecondLife
  • MMORPGs
• Robotics
  • Willow Garage Hardware and open source software for personal robotic applications
  • HomeBrew Robotics Club inside the NASA Research Park (NRP) complex (started in 2002)
  • ROS (RobotOS) hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management.
• Biology
  • DIYbio making biology an accessible pursuit for citizen scientists, amateur biologists, and DIY biological engineers who value openness and safety.
  • Free Fermentology Foundation Bacteria for the people!
  • OpenMaterials.org
  • DNAdeal by Tito Jankowski
  • OpenMicrobiome.org open datasets, tools and standards that everyone is encouraged to use and improve on to speed our understanding of the links between microbes and disease.
  • Biocurious Bay Area hackerspace for biotech
• Controllers
  • brain controllers (EEG, fMRI, ...)
    • Emotiv SDK available since early June 2009
    • The OpenEEG project creating a low cost EEG device and free software to go with it.
      • Related techniques Concepttreefmri#results including OpenViBE toolkit
    • Wikipedia:Comparison of consumer brain-computer interface devices
  • motion capture (XTR3D, CrictorNews, April 2009)
    • PS3 motion controller taken on stage with PlayStation Eye during E3 2009
    • Project Natal during E3 2009
• Large multi-touch tables and screens
  • reacTIVision open source, cross-platform computer vision framework for the fast and robust tracking of fiducial markers attached onto physical objects, as well as for multi-touch finger tracking.
  • Microsoft Surface
  • Sony atracTable made by atracsys
  • Oblong g-speak spatial operating environment
  • Wacom Cintiq
  • TabletMod.com DIY Cintiq
  • HP TouchSmart
  • On The Tabletop - interacting with Knowledge Stefano Baraldi's Blog
• Holographic
  • BUT dicussion in the valley last summer with nVidia employee, FoaF, and 10years = we don't know
  • 25C3: Life is a Holodeck! An overview of holographic techniques by Claus "HoloClaus" Cohnen, 25th Chaos Communication Congress, 2008
• Electronics
  • Open Circuits open source electronics knowledge, schematics, board layouts, ports and parts libraries.
  • Open Hardware Repository place on the web for electronics designers to collaborate on open hardware designs, much in the philosophy of the free software movement.
  • Bug Labs BUGbase module-based Linux computer for rapid device prototyping
  • hackable-devices.com platform for technical exchanges around hardware and devices you can manage, modify, fork or patch.
  • DIY Drones amateur UAVs, contests, resources and more
  • Arduino open-source electronics prototyping platform
    • Practical Arduino: Cool Projects for Open Source Hardware by Jonathan Oxer and Hugh Blemings, APress December 2009
  • HackingLag with Pinguino, an Arduino-like board based on a PIC Microcontroller
  • BeagleBoard high performance, low power OMAP3
  • OMAPzoom.org Open source community for the Zoom Mobile Development platform
  • běn NanoNote by Qi Hardware
  • hackinglab Tips and Tricks for hacking toys, designing PCB & network interfaces
  • XMOS development kits
  • Seeed Studio Arsenal and freelancer for interaction engineering
  • Liquidware Open Source Hardware Wiki
  • Dwarf Boards the clever microcontroller building blocks
  • Comparison of Free Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software on Wikipedia
  • bildr Modular Know-how initiated by Adam Meyer
    • aiming to provide equivalent code for major eletronics devices
  • CPUs
    • OpenSPARC Open Source Processor used in Sun SPARC Servers
      • Free 64-bit CMT Microprocessor
    • Homebuilt CPUs Web Ring
      • no centralized website, search required
    • OpenCores design and publish core designs under a license for hardware modelled on the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) for software
      • Zet processor open implementation of the so widely used IA-32 architecture (generally called x86)
    • Freeduino collaborative open-source project to replicate and publish Arduino-compatible hardware files.
    • Big Mess o’ Wires A home-built CPU, and other messy electronics adventures
    • Magic VLSI
  • http://allinbox.com/
  • GPU
    • Milkymist open source system-on-chip (SoC) design written in Verilog HDL
    • Open Graphics Project (OGP) is developing graphics cards with Free-licensed specifications and Free Software drivers.
• Collective network of sensors
  • Home Climate Control based on DIY Zoning Project
  • Wireless Accessible Sensor Populations (WASP)
  • OpenStreetMap with its CloudMade
  • Ushahidi Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS)
  • Wikipedia:Wireless sensor network#Platforms
• Nanotechnology
  • Open Source Nanotechnology (OSnano) participate in the innovations of nanotechnology right from the start.
  • DIY microfluidics, FluidicMEMS April 2010
• Chemistry
  • that is not cooking

Ordering

• currently ordered by
  • type of technology
    • mostly following FB_Wiki:Fabien/LayeredModel
• could become ordered by
  • Expected time of appearance
  • Price
  • Possibilities

Possibilities?

Endless because they can be recombined

Expensive?

• Get rich
• Find a local group to build them yourself
  • List of Hacker Spaces like the Metalab in Vienna, Austria
  • participate to a temporary gathering
    • HAR2009 » Hacking at Random, August 13-16, 2009 near Vierhouten, NL.
  • Instructables Events
  • Places of Interest according to Make Maps
  • Chaos regional, CCC places in Germany
  • TechShop in the US
  • 100kGarages
• Start a local group to build them together and share them
  • Hacker Space Design Patterns by Jens Ohlig at The Last HOPE 2008
  • or regroup to do Group Purchasing, P2P Foundation
• find funding
  • Open Source Hardware Bank
  • P2P finance / Crowdfinancing
  • OpenScienceFund.org for idea, design or project that is scientifcally related
  • grants from institutions (to list)
• don't forget the List of tool-lending libraries, a movement started in 1979 at Berkeley

References

• Interactions (I/O) for Seedea
• Democratizing Innovation, Eric Von Hippel, MIT Press, 2005
• The Emergence of Open Design and Open Manufacturing, Michel Bauwens, We Magazine, February 2009

To explore

• Multimedia page of the Claytronics Project, Collaborative Research in Programmable Matter Directed by Carnegie Mellon and Intel including An over the top “future ad” for programmable matter
• A synthesis birdview with Future of Making Map by The Institute For The Future, May 2008
• Self Publishing Visualisation by chris watson, VisualThinkMap October 2009
• 2600fr :: Les meetings 2600 en France (more focused on security)
• The definitive guide to open source hardware projects in 2009 by Phillip Torrone, Make December 2009