If you are fascinated by personal fabrication (and who isn't?) you may want to check out the Emerging Tech SIG this Tuesday July 12th.
They are hosting Squid Labs. Looks to me like a bunch of guys having the time of their life developing cool products. I am just a we bit envious. Abstract further down.
Update: Kennita reminded me that Cubberley Center has many buildings [map] and I remember running around there and no one knew where the event was. It is in H-1:
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA
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We have just survived a brief period in history where we all disembodied ourselves from the physical world and focused on the digital and the informational. It was definitely fun times for many, but more interesting is the way the experience allows us to re-engage with the physical world now we are on the other side of it. Atoms and bits need not be strangers and looking at the physical world with a mind to how bits describe it looks like it might be a pretty interesting new perspective. This talk will wander across some of the ramifications of looking at structure as information - physically self replicating machines, open source hardware, file sharing for hardware hobbyists and why the hottest tool in your garage may soon be connected to your PC.
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