CBA News & Notes
April 24, 2024
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A CBA team published a paper on a 3D printer that can adapt to the materials that it's printing, in order to expand use of recycled and renewable materials:
This is a paper with our contribution to architected materials to increase by an order of magnitude their ability to protect coasts from extreme weather events:
And here's a CBA paper on improving massively-parallel multiphysics modeling:
- We're pleased to welcome Procter & Gamble as our newest sponsor, with a focus on sustainability:
We've launched a program with Greece's National Centre For Scientific Research "Demokritos", on expanding access to open scientific instrumentation:
- And we're going to be doing a trial of swarm robotic building construction with the Dubai International Financial Centre and its stakeholders:
- Congratulations to Jack Forman and team for winning gold in the International Design Awards (IDA):
- Neil Gershenfeld will be speaking about perspectives on complexity at the Santa Fe Institute:
and co-hosting a workshop there on metrics for interspecies communication:
He'll then be Scientist in Residence with a CBA team at the Pilchuck Glass School:
- CBA will be co-hosting FAB24, the annual gathering of the fab lab network, in Mexico in August:
In collaboration with Solidworks and the Fab Foundation we developed a "Fab-in-a-Box", a low-cost integrated mini fab lab aimed at expanding educational access:
Here are videos on COTS (commercial off-the-shelf):
and NOTS (not off-the-shelf) versions:
And here's a guide to an inspiring collaboration that's creating mobile fab labs for Ukraine:
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