Schedule

Saturday

9:00AM - 9:30AM	Registration & Breakfast, Brown Center
9:30AM - 10:30AM	Lightning Talks from Kawandeep Virdee, Todd Blatt, Arthur Young-Spivey, Sallye Coyle, Phyllis Klein, Brown Center
10:30AM - 11:15AM	Keynotes from Nathalie Miebach and Hod Lipson, Brown Center
11:30AM - 1:00PM	Lab Session 1: See individual lab schedules for more information. Data Visualization, Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing
1:00PM - 2:00PM	Lunch catered by MICA, Brown Center
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Lab Session 2: See individual lab schedules for more information. Data Visualization, Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing
3:30PM - 6:00PM	Happy Hour at Joe Squared

Sunday

9:00AM - 9:30AM	Registration & Breakfast, Brown Center
9:30AM - 10:30AM	Keynotes from Marco Perry and Nervous System
10:30AM - 1:00PM	Lab Session 1: See individual lab schedules for more information. Data Visualization, Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing
1:00PM - 2:00PM	Lunch catered by MICA, Brown Center
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Lab Session 2: See individual lab schedules for more information. Data Visualization, Digital Fabrication, Physical Computing

Locations for Betascape

Keynotes & Talks

The keynotes and lightning talks aim to inspire by providing ideas and concepts to consider as well as detailed and specific information on projects. Lightning talks are provided by some of the Lab Facilitators from each lab.

Day 1 – Lightning Talks

Kawandeep - "Making art we can do together - designing objects to manipulate interpersonal interactions and physical environments."

Todd Blatt - "The Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer"

Arthur Young-Spivey - "What you thought you knew about what you didn't know about Digital Fabrication. This will cover some of the far out fringes of what all of this technology will bring 20 years out from today."

Sallye Coyle - "Expand your view of 3D printing: sample the breadth of things possible by artists and artisans using subtractive digital fabrication in their work."

Phyllis Klein - "Global Fab ~ Learn how Fab Labs connect changers and makers around the world and about opportunities to collaborate here, in the Greater Metropolitan area."

Day 1 – Keynotes

Nathalie Miebach

Bio: A sculptor based in the Boston, MA whose work focuses on the intersection of art and science and the visual articulation of scientific observations. Nathalie has recently presented her work at world-renown forums such as Eyeo Festival and TED. Her work translates scientific data related to astronomy, ecology and meteorology into physical woven sculptures. Weaving provides a grid through which to interpret data in three-dimensional space. Her sculptures tread an uneasy divide between functioning both as sculptures in space as well as instruments that could be used in the actual environment from which the data originates.

Hod Lipson

Keynote Summary: Programmable matter: The present and future of 3D printing.

Bio: An American robotics engineer. He is the director of Cornell University's Creative Machines Lab, at the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he is also an Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. Lipson is the creator of Fab@Home, the open source personal fabricator project, which was awarded a MacArthur grant. Lipson is well published and recent publications include, Factory@Home, The Emerging Economy of Personal Fabrication, a report commissioned by the Whitehouse Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Day 2

Marco Perry

Keynote Summary: 3D Printing works very well to print volumes, but not forms made of lines in space. To address this need, Pensa created the DIWire - an open source CNC wire bender that is as easy to use as a 3D printer, and is small and affordable for the enthusiast. Marco will show what the DIWire can do today, a future vision for its capabilities, and a peak at the potential for mass adoption of rapid prototyping.

Bio: An industrial designer and co-founder of Pensa NYC, a strategic design consultancy composed of multidisciplinary team, and the creator of DIWire Bender, a rapid prototype machine that bends metal wire to produce 2d or 3D shapes. DIWire bender is essentially a 3D printer that describes lines instead of volumes in space, and it could be used for anything from prototypes to customized products.

DIWire Bender is attracting interest from many varied disciplines from dentistry and medical fields to artists and product designers.

Nervous System

Bio: A design studio at the intersection of science, art and technology. Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg focus on generative design writing algorithms based on processes and patterns found in nature. Unique patterns and forms generated and applied to an array of products, which are created utilizing digital fabrication technologies. Engaging the Creative Commons movement, applets are available online for anyone to experiment and learn with.

Digital Fabrication

Saturday

11:30AM - 12:30PM	Intro to 3D Modeling and Modo with Arthur Young-Spivey
11:30AM - 12:30PM	123D Catch with Angelo Tartanian
12:30PM - 1:30PM	Creating Tool Paths for CNC Routing with Sallye Coyle
12:30PM - 1:30PM	Meshmixer with Todd Blatt
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Open Source 3D Printing with Marty McGuire
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Intermediate Manipulation and Transformation in Rhino with Joshua DeMonte
3:00PM - 4:00PM	3D Printing Talk with Arthur Young-Spivey
3:00PM - 4:00PM	Open Lab: 3D Printing

Sunday

11:30AM - 12:30PM	Introduction to Computational Tools with Jesse & Jessica of Nervous System
11:30AM - 12:30PM	DI Wire Bender Demo with Marco Perry of PensaNYC
12:30PM - 1:30PM	Intermediate Modeling with Modo with Arthur Young-Spivey
12:30PM - 1:30PM	123D Catch with Angelo Tartanian
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Introduction to Rhino/More with Rhino with Joshua DeMonte
2:00PM - 3:00PM	Meshmixer with Todd Blatt
3:00PM - 4:00PM	Open Lab: 3D Printing

Digital fabrication is a process that includes the digital creation of 2D and 3D content whose manufacture is, in part or in whole, realized through the use of computer controlled machines. The process begins with computer modeling. This can be something as simple as a planar (2D) line drawing or as complicated as spatial models (3D). There are various techniques and methods of creating these digital models.

The next part of the digital fabrication process is to generate physical translations of the digital models. When the physical object is created (output) the digital models are sent to a computer-controlled machine as a set of instructions so that the duplication process may begin and be repeated. There are many different types of technologies and methods for creating the physical objects. This lab will present an advanced and intro overview of the leading computer modeling and 3D printing technologies.

Digital Fabrication Lab Facilitators

Physical Computing

This lab will focus on building interactive physical systems. Attendees will explore how humans and environments engage with computers via sound, heat, motion, light, and other inputs using sensors. This lab will push participants beyond standard human-computer interaction devices such as the keyboard, video and mouse.

Taking a hands-on approach, participants will have a collaborative space to build circuits, solder, code programs and build structures to hold sensors and controls that interact with people and space. A variety of workshops will be offered throughout the weekend including 'Introduction to Arduino', 'Overview of Arduino Shields' and 'Hacking your Toaster to the Internet'.

Provisions

The Physical Computing Lab is BYOA – BRING YOUR OWN ARDUINO.

Otherwise the lab will be equipped with the following:

• Soldering stations (irons, helping hands, hand tools, breadboards, leads, multimeters)
• Components & Consumables (caps, resistors, hookup wire, pots, buttons and LEDs)
• Sensors (range finders, temp sensors, photoresisters, etc)

What to bring

• Projects you've been hacking on and need help with
• Your own tools
• Your own components
• AN ARDUINO!

Saturday

11:30AM - 1:00PM	RELATIONAL COMPUTING Kawandeep Virdee & Keith Simmons
11:30AM - 1:00PM	Intro to Arduinos with Mike Subelsky
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Wind Field: motors, interrupts, and a/c phase control in service of indoor weather Kyle Fritz & Becky McLaren

Sunday

11:30AM - 1:00PM	RELATIONAL COMPUTING Kawandeep Virdee & Keith Simmons
2:00PM - 4:00PM	Intro to Arduinos with Mike Subelsky

Physical Computing Lab Facilitators

Data Visualization

Saturday

11:30AM – 12:30PM (Cancelled)	Intro to Visualization with Python with Paul Smith
1:30PM – 4:00PM	Rescheduled to Sunday Morning

Sunday

11:00PM – 11:30PM	Open Source Projects in Medical Visualization with Dr. Yair Rajwan
11:30AM – 1:00PM	Intermediate Scraping for Data with Jonathan Julian
2:00PM – 4:00PM	Intro to Data Viz Design with Bryan Connor

This lab is for those interested in learning more about data visualization techniques and tools at intro and advanced levels.

This workshop will take you from the first steps of data extraction all the way to advanced concepts in analysis, design, and presentation of your datasets with the aim of providing a starting point for a general approach. For more advanced, the workshop will delve deeper into data, add to the complexity of visualizations, and introduce concepts of interactivity while presenting an opportunity for collaborative work.

Provisions:

The data Visualization Lab will be equipped with a projector, white board(s), large tables, Wi-Fi, and a large photo printer.

What to bring:

Please bring your laptop and a mouse suitable for graphics work if desired. Please prepare your laptop by installing Adobe Illustrator (a trial version or open source equivalent will suffice), Python and an editor or IDE, Ruby and RubyGems (Intermediate Session, can follow along with python/perl), as well as any materials for any projects you have started or would like help with.

Data Visualization Lab Facilitators