Section: Projects / Capacitor

Capacitor

Capacitor’s main theme is open hardware, opening up machines, building from scratch, prototyping with open platforms and tinkering. Through for example interviews with developers, bricoleurs, engineers and hobbyists Capacitor will dip its toe into the water of the open hardware sea which is out there.

Articles

2012

Interactive textile

Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe was invited to organise a short workshop in the DSGNRMRKT in Genk. Come and learn the basics of textile and electronics, start with adding some light! For (...)
Workshop · Meeting · 2012

Court Circuit Court: Social fabrics: on protocols, textile and salutations

Short Circuit / Short Process is the first edition of PiNG’s Summer Lab. Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe will host an atelier on salutations and greeting rituals. Make textile sensors that (...)
Performance · Encounter · 2012

The Kissing Protocol at the Domestic Science Workshop Recyclart

Kissing Protocol at the Domestic Science Workshop Recyclart Domestic Science Workshop is a temporary open craft studio at Recyclart where ’Recipes For Disaster’ are developed, tested and sold to (...)

Kissing Protocol in Domestic Science Workshop Recyclart

Domestic Science Workshop is een tijdelijk open ambachtatelier in Recyclart waar ’Recipes For Disaster’ worden ontwikkeld, getest en verkocht om thuis mee te experimenteren. Op eigen risico. (...)

Sur les outils, une exercice au Ladyfest

Quels outils utilisez-vous dans votre pratique (artistique) ? D’ou vient-ils ? Comment ces outils sont ils faitent ? Ce sont des objets physique ou virtuels ? Membre de Constant Wendy Van (...)

Over gereedschap, een oefening tijdens Ladyfest

Welke tools gebruik je in de al dan niet artistieke praktijk? Waar komen ze vandaan? Hoe werden ze gemaakt? Bestaan ze enkel virtueel of zijn het fysieke objecten? Constant lid Wendy Van (...)

About Tools, an exercise at Ladyfest

What tools do you use in your artistic practice, where do they come from, how were they made? Are they digital or physical? Constant member Wendy Van Wynsberghe does a small intervention on this (...)
Workshop · 2011

Przetwory 6: Media lab workshop

This weekend will be an introduction into textile and electronics. We will look at the integration of sensors and soft buttons into sewn and knitted projects. We will include a small introduction (...)
Encounter · 2011

On visual arts and (free) licenses.

With Hisk students, we delve into art history and look at image quotes, sampling, intertextuality. We will analyse a few cases on works of art and licenses.
Rencontre · 2011

Plankton Bar #40

Au cours des mois de mars et avril, Wendy Van Wynsberghe, membre de Constant, est en résidence aux Bains ::Connective. Pour ce second moment public, le 29 avril, elle présentera une partie de son (...)

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2013-05-09 14:58:06

softwearables: New word of the day: Skeuomorphism --> http://ur1.ca/drm67

New word of the day: Skeuomorphism --> http://ur1.ca/drm67

2013-05-09 13:44:51

softwearables: Great and highly varied collection of music, available under various Creative Commons licenses : http://ur1.ca/4p9k0

Great and highly varied collection of music, available under various Creative Commons licenses : http://ur1.ca/4p9k0

2013-04-26 13:43:15

softwearables: Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users: http://ur1.ca/djh8g

Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users: http://ur1.ca/djh8g

2013-04-08 20:58:59

softwearables: Report on "Hacking the Gender Gap" workshop http://ur1.ca/db7xz

Report on "Hacking the Gender Gap" workshop http://ur1.ca/db7xz

2013-03-30 19:27:59

softwearables: South Korea lives in the future (of brutal copyright enforcement) http://ur1.ca/d7szv

South Korea lives in the future (of brutal copyright enforcement) http://ur1.ca/d7szv

2013-03-28 17:50:18

softwearables: The powers of swarms, very nice article.. http://ur1.ca/d76e2

The powers of swarms, very nice article.. http://ur1.ca/d76e2

2013-03-28 17:47:41

softwearables: Researchers show method for de-anonymizing 95% of "anonymous" cellular location data http://ur1.ca/d76dd

Researchers show method for de-anonymizing 95% of "anonymous" cellular location data http://ur1.ca/d76dd

2013-03-22 12:18:01

softwearables: Intellectual Property and the Future of @Home Manufacturing, by Adam B. Levine http://ur1.ca/d4z1t

Intellectual Property and the Future of @Home Manufacturing, by Adam B. Levine http://ur1.ca/d4z1t

2013-03-11 23:11:51

Just a machine working…

–> See here about the what and how..

2013-03-11 17:19:40

softwearables: Harder than I thought, but the commandline save the day! Baking subtitles into your video: http://ur1.ca/d1ex8

Harder than I thought, but the commandline save the day! Baking subtitles into your video: http://ur1.ca/d1ex8