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.
Capacitor 
Articles
Interactive textile
Court Circuit Court: Social fabrics: on protocols, textile and salutations
The Kissing Protocol at the Domestic Science Workshop Recyclart
Kissing Protocol in Domestic Science Workshop Recyclart
Sur les outils, une exercice au Ladyfest
Over gereedschap, een oefening tijdens Ladyfest
About Tools, an exercise at Ladyfest
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 (...)
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.
Plankton Bar #40
Feeds
softwearables: New word of the day: Skeuomorphism --> http://ur1.ca/drm67
New word of the day: Skeuomorphism --> http://ur1.ca/drm67
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
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
softwearables: Report on "Hacking the Gender Gap" workshop http://ur1.ca/db7xz
Report on "Hacking the Gender Gap" workshop http://ur1.ca/db7xz
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
softwearables: The powers of swarms, very nice article.. http://ur1.ca/d76e2
The powers of swarms, very nice article.. http://ur1.ca/d76e2
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
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
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