CBA News & Notes
August 22, 2023
- CBA is doing a search for a laboratory director:
to manage our unique range of tools:
- We've just returned from Bhutan, where we co-hosted FAB23, the global gathering of the fab lab network. Videos and pictures are posted here:
And in May we co-hosted Haystack Labs, a week-long workshop with artists and scientists collaborating to create new machines and processes for making art:
- MIT's home page featured our work on folding metal to make ultralight strong and stiff structures:
and here's coverage of our work on micromachining single-crystal diamond to make 10 million RPM rotors for molecular structural studies:
with a new paper on the process:
- We're pleased to announce an exciting award to a CBA team from Schmidt Futures:
to investigate the boundary between nanoassembly and molecular biology, seeking to effectively create life in inorganic materials by reducing a range of technologies to the composition of a small set of functional material building blocks.
- Building on our work on open designs to expand access to scientific instrumentation:
we've received an award from NIST to develop Computational Metrology, studying how machines can effectively measure computational models, with goals including increasing use of recycled and renewable materials.
- CBA has received an award to study the creation of architected artificial reefs, with a goal of improving coastal protection by increasing the dissipation of extreme weather events by an order of magnitude:
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