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Ponoko CEO David ten Have to speak at this week’s World Conference on Mass Customization, Personalization, and Co-Creation November 14

also known as #MCPC2011

The bi-annual MCPC conference will take place this week in San Francisco. This multi-day, multi-track conference attracts entrepreneurs, academics, designers, and top players in the burgeoning business-meets-tech field of mass customization / personalization / co-creation.

Business seminars will run through Nov 16—17, and a Research & Innovation conference will run through Nov 18—19.

Ponoko CEO David ten Have will be presenting his talk, Building the World’s Easiest Making System, on Wednesday afternoon as part of The Future of Mass Customization: The New Open Manufacturing System.

Other speakers include mass-co guru Frank Pillar; exec vp of Materialise, Wim Michiels; director of P&G’s Connect+Develop, Ashish Chatterjee; Quirky’s head of engineering, John Jacobsen; CEO of TechShop, Mark Hatch; Jeff & Bobby Beaver, the founders of Zazzle; and a bazillion other game-changers from CEOs of promising start-ups to successful VCs.

Registrations for the conference are still being accepted. But if you don’t have a corporate account to charge it to, you can follow the action on twitter: #mcpc2011

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Craft2.0 in Wellington City October 24

The fair comes to town

Saturday 29th will be a day of celebration of artisan making in Wellington with the last Craft2.0 fair for 2011 and a wonderful opportunity for early Christmas shopping. For the first time this popular fair will be held in central Wellington.

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Join us at the Wellington office ‘early Christmas’ meetup October 24

Kia ora! We’re hosting an early Christmas meetup at our New Zealand office. If you’ve never made anything with us before and are keen to learn all about how Ponoko works, then we’d love you to join us.

Wednesday November 2nd, 6.30pm – 8pm
Ponoko NZ Office
Level 1
27 Dixon Street
Wellington
RSVP

This is an opportunity for people in the Wellington region to have any questions you might have answered in person. We’ve asked some Wellington-based makers to come and talk about projects they’ve made with Ponoko Personal Factory, and they’ll bring along their finished designs to look at.

The theme for our November meetup will be ‘Holiday Making’ – decoration ideas for Christmas, as well as great ideas for Personal Factory-made presents for your friends and family. We’re holding it at the beginning of November, so that there’s time for you to create a design and place an order, all in time for Christmas.

You can check out our new material samples, and be inspired by a range of designs on display. If you want to bring along a flat material sample that you would like to have laser cut, e.g. a piece of silk fabric, and if we’re able to cut it, then we’ll give it a whirl. You’ll also be able to see the laser in operation, and watch as it works its magic on some custom-made Christmas decorations.

Places will be limited, so please RSVP if you’d like to come along .

Hope to see you there!

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Ponoko CEO David ten Have to speak at Adobe Creative Camp October 23

October 28 & 29 in Wellington, NZ

Designers, developers, and Adobe devotees are getting together this week for Adobe Creative Camp NZ.

This multi-track event is being held in Wellington at the Natcoil Design School (host of last year’s Flash Platform Camp) on October 28 and 29th.

Session topics range from awesomely useful how-tos on specific softwares (Acrobat, Fireworks, Flash, Flex, Lightroom, InDesign and more) to mobile app development to the fine art of how best to use a typeface.

Dave will be opening the morning sessions with his talk: Bits to Atoms: Using Adobe Illustrator for Personal Fabrication.

If you’re a NZ designer, developer, or Adobe lover, don’t miss this event. Tickets are super reasonable (NZ $29 full price / NZ $15 students)! Register here.

Click here for the full agenda.

P.S. There are also 2 in-depth workshops. InDesign CS 5.5 – Beyond Print! and Enlightenment – a Zen Agile workshop.

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Build your own Nebulophone — awesome DIY electronics workshop in NZ next month October 7

Build your own Arduino-based mini synth at Rich Decibels’ workshops coming up in November

A couple weeks ago I posted about the Nebulophone electronics kit along with a video of me putting it together and talking about why I like making this kid of stuff.

And I know other people like making this stuff too, so I’ve been running DIY workshops at my studio in Wellington for the past few weeks.

I’ve had a great time teaching all sorts of different people elementary electronics concepts, and the students have been having fun too. Check out the excellent LEKRMOI video below of last week’s workshop attended by musicians Benny Tones and Lord Jackson.

The classes tend to be a relaxed social affair, with lots of laughter, culminating in an inevitable cacophony of half a dozen new Nebulophones all being excitedly played together. There’s a review up of the workshop from last week on the NZ Makers site.

The first 6 classes sold out in a couple of days so I’ve added more workshops for November. So get in quick if you’re interested! No experience necessary!

• Register for Nebulophone workshop on Nov 19th at 11am in Wellington, NZ

• Register for Nebulophone workshop on Nov 22 at 7pm in Wellington, NZ

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The world of at-home 3D printing comes together for the 3D Printing Event on Oct 25 October 4

part of Dutch Design Week

image above features Breathable Roots planter design by Kostika Spaho

Desktop manufacturing is rapidly gaining in popularity as hacker spaces, maker clubs, schools, homes, and even creative class companies buy increasingly affordable personal fabrication machines — most notably, consumer 3D printers.

The 3D Printing Event, held on Tuesday, October 25 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, will gather several of the top names from the academic and business world of personal 3D printing to discuss and present on the central theme of 3D printing at home.

The day’s seminar will include talks from Ultimaker co-founder Erik de Bruijn, Origo co-founder Joris Peels, Marcelo Coelho of the MIT Media Labs exploration of Digital Gastronomy, Jeffrey Lipton of Cornell’s Fab@Home project, as well as representatives from Solidworks, Philips Design, Z Corporation and more.

In edition to the seminar, there will also be an exhibition and awards program for a 3D printing design competition.

The exhibition is free, but registration is required. Seminar tickets are €95, €25 for students. Register here.

The 3D Printing Event is part of Dutch Design Week, one of the world’s preeminent showcases of contemporary craft and design, and organized by market intelligence firm Jakajima.

Ponoko is an official mediapartner of the 3D Printing Event.

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German maker scene comes together for Makerplatz September 30

making, crafting, gardening, street art, sewing, hacking & more

Makerplatz, a festival of making, collaboration, and co-production, commenced yesterday in Berlin and runs through tomorrow, October 1.

Most of the workshops and activities take place tomorrow, include making a chair from a shipping pallet, playing nice games in public spaces, laser graffiti, political birdhouses, design thinking for start-ups, and more.

If you’re interested in the Basics of Soldering, be sure to register for that one.

Our friends at Formulor, our Berlin based laser-cutting hub, will also be cutting the winning design idea from yesterday’s digital design demo.

And the New Zealand/Germany connection doesn’t end there. Outdoor-only performers Charity Children, a duo from NZ, will be playing at the Potato Harvest Festival.

The Google translated description of the Potato Harvest hilariously reads:

Despite a season that was once again extremely unfavorable for the cultivation of potatoes, of course, we will celebrate again our now traditional potato harvest. Supported by Leif cook our food the tubers will miss this time a Nordic touch. As usual are rare and ancient varieties like the Red Emma, Blue Swede, Aeggeblomme, etc. Vitelotte fried, baked, boiled, mashed and otherwise got small.

So if you’re in Berlin, be sure to spend your Saturday at Makerplatz makin’ stuff, canning potatoes, and squeezing your own lemonade.

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Rich Decibels disrupts brainwaves using an Arduino August 5

Audio-visual brain entrainment using an Arduino

There are some interesting theories about the ability of low frequency light and sound to alter brain states. I created the Rich Decibels Brainwave Disruptor to investigate some of the theories. (more…)

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Luscious lips lamp design from Design Smash Milan July 25

A really bright smile

Over 60 Italian creatives got together for some beer-fueled product designing at Design Smash Milan.

The event (part of WeFab during Milan Design Week) was sponsored by our Milano amici / fabbing partners Vectorealism, and all designs had to be fabricated with laser cutting.

The design theme was “Things I Need to Work” and 15 finished projects were presented including: a laptop organizer, a rotating stand for the iPhone, a task lamp, stationery accessories, and even a desktop hydroponics system.

Designer Marco Magni created this pop art lip lamp. Part-Lichtenstein, part-Rocky Horror, this lighting design is definitely not something you’d find at your local big box.

And you can make your very own luscious lip lamp with your Personal Factory. Plans for Marco’s designs are available for free download right HERE.

via Vectorealism

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Crafting With Computer July 4

Last weekend, Wellington’s premiere indie design fair Craft2.0 once again demonstrated just how much digital fabrication is influencing day to day making for many crafters and designers. Amongst the numerous stalls, there were several that had laser cut jewellery and accessories on display. Knowledgeable mutterings with regard to fabrication techniques from several elederly ladies confirmed that digital fabrication is becoming less of a mystery, although a few shoppers did ask how long it took to cut the snowflakes by hand…

Super Very