DIRECTIONS
Microsoft New England Research
and Development Center
One Memorial Drive, 11th Floor
(accessible from the Kendall T)
and Development Center
One Memorial Drive, 11th Floor
(accessible from the Kendall T)
Join April 25 & 26 for the Maker Revolution. As part of , the two-day event will focus on do-it-yourself technology and electronic music and art. The event will include performances,
presentations and hands-on workshops. The Maker Revolution is free and open
to the public. Please note that although this is a Willoughby & Baltic event, it is being hosted by the Microsoft Startup Labs at One Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
FEATURED ART: Feel pulsing waves of sound in your body in immersive resonating cube – Sonoculator. Experience grass that doesn’t passively accept being stepped on in Sod Off! Play Doug Moore’s electronic bottle organ. Break as many virtual plates as you like in Falling Up. And, listen to concert performance Orgy of Noise.
BOTH DAYS
Both days the soldering area will be available at any time. Kits will be available for purchase, so come by and learn to solder. Arduinos will also be available, so come and play with one, or take one home.
SATURDAY APRIL 25
1:00 to 1:30 - Meet and Greet
1:30 to 2:30 - Building Electronic Circuits & Sounds for Performance & Installation.
Artist panel discussion
Learn about the art of Circuit Bending, and creating strange new sounds from existing toys and instruments, as well as about building your own instruments from scratch. Find out what it's like to perform with new instruments, each with their own custom controls and quirks. Stick around for a performance and workshop immediately after the talk, and make sure to check out one of the pieces in the space, and explore these strange new sounds yourself.
SPEAKERS:
Jimmie Rodgers is local circuit bender and electronic instrument creator. Founder of Noise Night, a bi-monthly Boston event for electronic music, and the designer of a number of kits that people can build themselves. Jimmie will be running a circuit bending workshop shortly after the talk.
Bill T Miller is a performance artist, and avid circuit bending collector. Bill's band Orgy of Noise is well known for combining new sounds in strange and interesting ways. The performance after the talk is not to be missed!
Derek Hoffend is a sound artist with a number of interesting pieces. Derek will be showing off some of his work during the show as well. You can then go and explore the strange new sounds yourself.
2:45 to 3:00 - Bill T Miller's Orgy of Noise.
Experience the sonics of circuit bent toys, outsider instruments and gizmos.
3:00 to 3:15 - Monome Performance
Adam Rabaudo
3:00 to 4:00 - Circuit Bending Workshop: The Easy Button, an easy first bend
Jimmie Rodgers
This workshop is there to just lay the groundwork for future bending projects. You will be lead through the basics of the exploration process, and given some ideas of what to do with what you find. Tools and materials will be provided. You will then leave with a working and bent easy button. $15 material fee.
3:30 to 4:30 - Art Software Tourbus
David Nunez
A speedy trip through over a dozen software tools for new media artists. This talk is a starting point for artists and technologists who are interested in exploring art software environments. A variety of tools will be demonstrated along with examples of what people are doing with them. Example environments include Processing, PureData, Supercollider, LOVE, and Context Free.
BIOGRAPHY: David Nunez is a technologist and designer working on projects that apply engineering in unusual contexts. He curates dorkbot-boston, a monthly gathering of people doing strange things with electricity. His recent project, Bytes and Bots at the Children's Museum of Houston, engages students to explore programming ideas through an animatronic lobster and bird. Previously, he designed the multitouch table used to play the Electric Gongs, a set of instruments for the Austin Children's Museum, and his robotic marionette, El Quemira, won multiple blue ribbons at the 2007 Austin Maker Faire.
4:45 to 5:45 - Rapid Prototype Your Life
Bre Pettis
Never again look into the aisles of oblivion filled with mass produced products. Take rapid prototype manufacturing into your life and return to a time before corporations robbed you of our individualism.
Bre Pettis will present an overview of the rapid prototype machines available taking the audience on a visual adventure into the beautiful world of rapid prototyping machinery with enough luscious graphic detail to make even the most die-hard luddite salivate with lust for the dream fulfilling technology. talk
6:00 to 7:00 - Hackerspaces
Mitch Altman, Bre Pettis, Jason Scott, Meredith Garniss
Hackerspaces have caught on like a wild fire, and are starting to pop up in every major city around the world. But what are they, and who joins them? Come find out why "Hackers" form these groups, and the kinds of projects they are working on. From art and technology, skill and resource sharing, to working on open sourcing projects and social issues. These are the types of Hackers portrayed in the news.
SPEAKERS:
Mitch Altman - Founding member of Noisebridge in San Francisco.
Bre Pettis - Founding member of NYCResistor in New York.
Jason Scott - Member of a number of Hackerspaces and historian of their rise.
Meredith Garniss - Founder of Willoughby and Baltic in Boston.
SUNDAY APRIL 26
s1:00 to 1:30 - Meet and Greet
1:30 to 2:30 - DIY Synthetic Biology: From Design to Construction with New Model Organisms
Makenzie Cowell Learn how bioengineering goes from design to construction with a case study of a binary counter biosystem, and how you can leverage the community and resources of iGEM and BioBricks by using standard biological parts in new, DIY-friendly, model organisms.
2:45 to 3:45 - Hack Your Life, for Fun and Profit (TV-B-Gone: From Thought to Reality)
Mitch Altman.
Like all projects, TV-B-Gone universal remote control started off as a thought. More of a fantasy, really. Yet one that Mitch somehow knew he could follow through on. In this talk Mitch will show how the notion of turning off TVs in public places ended up taking over his life, providing he and his friends a living, and creating a new meme around the world. Along the way he points out some of hows and whys, as well as some of the more interesting and stressful aspects of the process. Mitch uses his life as an example, hoping to show why taking risks can be way worthwhile.
BIOGRAPHY: Though most known for inventing the wildly popular TV-B-Gone, a keychain that makes it fun to turn off TVs in public places, Mitch Altman is an inventor with a reputation for creating intriguing devices that amaze and delight, such as the Brain Machine, Trippy RGB Waves, and the Mignonette Game. Mitch co-founded 3ware (a Silicon Valley RAID controller company), and co-founded Noisebridge (a San Francisco hacker space). Mitch has written for MAKE Magazine and 2600 Journal, and for the last few years has traveled the world teaching people to solder and how to make cool things with microcontrollers. He is currently writing a book to teach total beginners how to make cool things with microcontrollers.
4:00 to 5:00 - DIY game developments
Darius Kazemi
Darius Kazemi will discuss recent advances in game development tools that let anyone, regardless of programming knowledge, make a game. He will discuss the ramifications of these tools: on the game industry itself, on the types of people who are now making games, and on the blossoming "art game" movement. He will also take a look at how open hardware is changing the face of gaming.
5:00 to 6:00 Dorkbot Boston
FEATURED ART: Feel pulsing waves of sound in your body in immersive resonating cube – Sonoculator. Experience grass that doesn’t passively accept being stepped on in Sod Off! Play Doug Moore’s electronic bottle organ. Break as many virtual plates as you like in Falling Up. And, listen to concert performance Orgy of Noise.
SCHEDULE
BOTH DAYS
Both days the soldering area will be available at any time. Kits will be available for purchase, so come by and learn to solder. Arduinos will also be available, so come and play with one, or take one home.
SATURDAY APRIL 25
1:00 to 1:30 - Meet and Greet
1:30 to 2:30 - Building Electronic Circuits & Sounds for Performance & Installation.
Artist panel discussion
Learn about the art of Circuit Bending, and creating strange new sounds from existing toys and instruments, as well as about building your own instruments from scratch. Find out what it's like to perform with new instruments, each with their own custom controls and quirks. Stick around for a performance and workshop immediately after the talk, and make sure to check out one of the pieces in the space, and explore these strange new sounds yourself.
SPEAKERS:
Jimmie Rodgers is local circuit bender and electronic instrument creator. Founder of Noise Night, a bi-monthly Boston event for electronic music, and the designer of a number of kits that people can build themselves. Jimmie will be running a circuit bending workshop shortly after the talk.
Bill T Miller is a performance artist, and avid circuit bending collector. Bill's band Orgy of Noise is well known for combining new sounds in strange and interesting ways. The performance after the talk is not to be missed!
Derek Hoffend is a sound artist with a number of interesting pieces. Derek will be showing off some of his work during the show as well. You can then go and explore the strange new sounds yourself.
2:45 to 3:00 - Bill T Miller's Orgy of Noise.
Experience the sonics of circuit bent toys, outsider instruments and gizmos.
3:00 to 3:15 - Monome Performance
Adam Rabaudo
3:00 to 4:00 - Circuit Bending Workshop: The Easy Button, an easy first bend
Jimmie Rodgers
This workshop is there to just lay the groundwork for future bending projects. You will be lead through the basics of the exploration process, and given some ideas of what to do with what you find. Tools and materials will be provided. You will then leave with a working and bent easy button. $15 material fee.
3:30 to 4:30 - Art Software Tourbus
David Nunez
A speedy trip through over a dozen software tools for new media artists. This talk is a starting point for artists and technologists who are interested in exploring art software environments. A variety of tools will be demonstrated along with examples of what people are doing with them. Example environments include Processing, PureData, Supercollider, LOVE, and Context Free.
BIOGRAPHY: David Nunez is a technologist and designer working on projects that apply engineering in unusual contexts. He curates dorkbot-boston, a monthly gathering of people doing strange things with electricity. His recent project, Bytes and Bots at the Children's Museum of Houston, engages students to explore programming ideas through an animatronic lobster and bird. Previously, he designed the multitouch table used to play the Electric Gongs, a set of instruments for the Austin Children's Museum, and his robotic marionette, El Quemira, won multiple blue ribbons at the 2007 Austin Maker Faire.
4:45 to 5:45 - Rapid Prototype Your Life
Bre Pettis
Never again look into the aisles of oblivion filled with mass produced products. Take rapid prototype manufacturing into your life and return to a time before corporations robbed you of our individualism.
Bre Pettis will present an overview of the rapid prototype machines available taking the audience on a visual adventure into the beautiful world of rapid prototyping machinery with enough luscious graphic detail to make even the most die-hard luddite salivate with lust for the dream fulfilling technology. talk
6:00 to 7:00 - Hackerspaces
Mitch Altman, Bre Pettis, Jason Scott, Meredith Garniss
Hackerspaces have caught on like a wild fire, and are starting to pop up in every major city around the world. But what are they, and who joins them? Come find out why "Hackers" form these groups, and the kinds of projects they are working on. From art and technology, skill and resource sharing, to working on open sourcing projects and social issues. These are the types of Hackers portrayed in the news.
SPEAKERS:
Mitch Altman - Founding member of Noisebridge in San Francisco.
Bre Pettis - Founding member of NYCResistor in New York.
Jason Scott - Member of a number of Hackerspaces and historian of their rise.
Meredith Garniss - Founder of Willoughby and Baltic in Boston.
SUNDAY APRIL 26
s1:00 to 1:30 - Meet and Greet
1:30 to 2:30 - DIY Synthetic Biology: From Design to Construction with New Model Organisms
Makenzie Cowell Learn how bioengineering goes from design to construction with a case study of a binary counter biosystem, and how you can leverage the community and resources of iGEM and BioBricks by using standard biological parts in new, DIY-friendly, model organisms.
2:45 to 3:45 - Hack Your Life, for Fun and Profit (TV-B-Gone: From Thought to Reality)
Mitch Altman.
Like all projects, TV-B-Gone universal remote control started off as a thought. More of a fantasy, really. Yet one that Mitch somehow knew he could follow through on. In this talk Mitch will show how the notion of turning off TVs in public places ended up taking over his life, providing he and his friends a living, and creating a new meme around the world. Along the way he points out some of hows and whys, as well as some of the more interesting and stressful aspects of the process. Mitch uses his life as an example, hoping to show why taking risks can be way worthwhile.
BIOGRAPHY: Though most known for inventing the wildly popular TV-B-Gone, a keychain that makes it fun to turn off TVs in public places, Mitch Altman is an inventor with a reputation for creating intriguing devices that amaze and delight, such as the Brain Machine, Trippy RGB Waves, and the Mignonette Game. Mitch co-founded 3ware (a Silicon Valley RAID controller company), and co-founded Noisebridge (a San Francisco hacker space). Mitch has written for MAKE Magazine and 2600 Journal, and for the last few years has traveled the world teaching people to solder and how to make cool things with microcontrollers. He is currently writing a book to teach total beginners how to make cool things with microcontrollers.
4:00 to 5:00 - DIY game developments
Darius Kazemi
Darius Kazemi will discuss recent advances in game development tools that let anyone, regardless of programming knowledge, make a game. He will discuss the ramifications of these tools: on the game industry itself, on the types of people who are now making games, and on the blossoming "art game" movement. He will also take a look at how open hardware is changing the face of gaming.
5:00 to 6:00 Dorkbot Boston