CBA News & Notes
December 17, 2016
- The annual How To Make (almost) Anything open house will be held from 5:00-6:30 on Tuesday December 20th on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14:
Come see what the expanded class has accomplished.
- CBA's research with NASA on morphing wings:
was featured on MIT's home page:
and in the global press:
- A joint CBA-NASA team did a first round of zero-g flights in November to test robotic locomotion in cellular structures:
A second round of flights will follow in March.
- CBA patents have issued on hierarchical digital materials:
and microfluidic logic:
- CBA has received an award from the Army Research Office for "Assembling Assemblers with Functional Digital Materials," based on earlier work on discrete electronic assembly:
- We're delighted to welcome GSK moving up to become a Principal sponsor of CBA, with a focus on label-free molecular detection:
- A CBA team led by Andreas Mershin had the fastest growing entry in the International Evolthon genome evolution challenge:
- Neil Gershenfeld spoke about breaking down the boundary between the digital and physical worlds at the commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall:
judged the R.O.M.E. Prize:
and joined a reunion of the Minority Report think-tank:
- Congratulations to alum Manu Prakash on being selected as a MacArthur Fellow:
and to alum Yael Maguire, head of Facebook's Connectivity Lab, on the first flight of their giant drone for global Internet connectivity:
- Jesse Dylan made a video about fab labs:
that was premiered at FAB12; here are the Symposium videos from that event:
Fab lab stories were covered by PRI:
WGBH:
and the New York Times:
GE and the Fab Foundation are deploying CBA's mobile fab lab in schools:
An unusual collaboration launched a fab lab with the San Francisco 49ers:
- Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year from all of us at CBA.
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