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== Sculpture System No. 5 set up in Vestmannaeyjar ==
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The goal of this project was to open the idea of mathematical art to the crowd and see where it is taken. Whilst traditional artwork is monolithic and static, our idea was to create a social piece of artwork that had the ability to evolve over time. In addition by playing a role in the design and construction the community is involved in the art from the beginning, not mearly as observers.
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The wiki has been updated to support section editing, image tagging, embedding of mp3 files and YouTube videos. I've also added some new anti-spam measures, and we now support uploading of Google Sketchup files, Python, Assembler and C code as well as .cad files.
 
 
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The wiki has been updated to support section editing, image tagging, embedding of mp3 files and YouTube videos. I've also added some new anti-spam measures, and we now support uploading of Google Sketchup files, Python, Assembler and C code as well as .cad files.
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On September 10th the Fab Lab wiki was opened up for input. The wiki is hosted by NMÍ Vestmannaeyjar, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license, which means that it is free to use, copy and adapt for any purpose whatsoever, granted that you say who the original authors are for each individual article. Already we've had data submissions from seven different users in three different countries, and are hoping that as news spreads through the Fab Lab network more fascinating material will follow.
 
On September 10th the Fab Lab wiki was opened up for input. The wiki is hosted by NMÍ Vestmannaeyjar, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike license, which means that it is free to use, copy and adapt for any purpose whatsoever, granted that you say who the original authors are for each individual article. Already we've had data submissions from seven different users in three different countries, and are hoping that as news spreads through the Fab Lab network more fascinating material will follow.
 
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Revision as of 14:31, 28 April 2009

Fab Lab News Featured

Sculpture System No. 5 set up in Vestmannaeyjar

SS5 IMG 0829.JPG

Can you get children and young people to build mathematical scultptures in their own time?

The goal of this project was to open the idea of mathematical art to the crowd and see where it is taken. Whilst traditional artwork is monolithic and static, our idea was to create a social piece of artwork that had the ability to evolve over time. In addition by playing a role in the design and construction the community is involved in the art from the beginning, not mearly as observers. See more


DIY Motor in 12 Easy Steps

This tutorial will teach you how to build a very simple DC motor.

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