CBA News & Notes
May 16, 2022
- We recommend a guide from the Fab Foundation on ways to help with both the immediate response to the war in Ukraine and with its eventual recovery:
- To help expand access to advanced measurement for a range of important needs, this August we're hosting a workshop on open metrology in collaboration with NIST:
- The annual fab lab network gathering will be held in Bali in October, with a focus on its unique innovation and craft ecosystem:
- Patricia Stathatou led an article on biofuels for reducing the environmental impact of shipping, which was the cover of The Royal Society of Chemistry's Sustainable Energy & Fuels journal:
- Alums Saul Griffith working with Sam Calisch wrote a book about how to fight climate change by electrifying everything:
- Amira Abdel-Rahman and Miana Smith will be presenting work on swarm robotic construction at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation:
- Natalie Golota presented work on micromachining diamond rotors for nuclear magnetic resonance magic-angle spinning at 7 million RPM for improving molecular structural studies:
https://www.enc-conference.org/Melanie-Rosay-Young-Academic-Support-Program
https://www.enc-conference.org/resources/Documents/General/Program_ENC%202022_as%20of%20April%2014.pdf
- Neil Gershenfeld spoke about world-building for the Science & Entertainment Exchange:
and How To Disrupt (almost) Everything for the 2022 MIT Manufacturing Conference:
with his video available here:
He'll be speaking in July in Glasgow about the design of design:
and then in London about the minimum building blocks to bootstrap a civilization:
- Finally, here's a peek at the educational journey to master making:
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