Steve Klabnik, CTO of CloudFab was so kind providing  the Fluid Forms community with a Beta-Access Code for their new marketplace for digital fabrication.

You want to make your 3d-models go real? Enter “fluidforms” at http://www.cloudfab.com/users/new and be among the first to get your Beta-Access to digital fabrication methods like SLA (Stereolithography), FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling), and SLS (Selective Laser-Sintering) .

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We proudly present the Customization of a customized product:

Thanks to Dick for sending us an image of his tinkerer dad’s “customized” Earth Bowl.
His dad displays it proudly to all his visitors…

It’s awesome to see how our customers modify their fluid forms and thus give them an even more personal touch and meaning.

And you? Feel free to send us your personal Fluid Forms hacks as well! We’d love to see and show your stuff!

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With CloudFab another start-up enters the digital fabrication and desktop manufacturing scene. Compared to Shapeways – a community-platform mainly for tinkerer (free shipping, minimum order is $25,-), CloudFab seems to target the professional market (according to Ponoko minimum order is $100,-). They want to connect maker and buyer of various 3D-printing and digital fabrication technologies. However, without a beta-access there’s not much to see at the moment. (Hey guys, won’t you send me a beta-code)

I really like the answer to the question “What is CloudFab?” though! “We’re clearing the fog from the digital fabrication market.” I would really appriciate that.

thanks to Ponoko and Solidsmack

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Back from a hectic week at the ARS Electronica where we held a intimate creative coding workshop with a few invited guests.

It was hard work and I didn’t get to see as much of the ARS as I had in previous years, but it was great working with the workshop participants.

More will follow regarding the workshop, but following are a few projects I liked at the ARS.

Connect by Andreas Muxel

CONNECT – feedback-driven sculpture from Andreas Muxel on Vimeo.

Nemo Observatorium by Lawrence Malstaf

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The physical value of sound by Yuri Suzuki

The Idea of a Tree by mischer’traxler

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Hundreds of animals made out of white plastic gathered together in Linz yesterday afternoon. The animals are made from polyethylene boards and were cut out with a water-jet-cutter. Each creature was awakened to life by people from Linz during the last months, under guidance from the artist Roger Titley. This bizzare happening was the prelude  the of Visualized Cloud of Sounds 2009 in line with the Ars Electronica Festival 2009.

Hunderte weiße Kunststofftiere versammelten sich im Laufe des gestrigen Nachmittags in der Linzer Innenstadt. Die Kreaturen wurden aus Polyethylenplatten mit einem Wasserstrahlschneider ausgeschnitten.  Zum Leben erweckt wurden die Geschöpfe in den letzten Monaten durch die Bewohner von Linz  unter Anleitung der Künstler. Das bizzare Treiben unter Tags war der Auftakt zur Visualisierten Linzer Klangwolke 2009 im Rahmen des Ars Electronica Festivals 2009.

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We’ve been asked to organize a creative coding workshop during the Ars Electronica Festival. We have invited a good mixture of creative minds (Martin Fuchs, Adi Hofmeister, Stefan Kainbacher, Cedric Kiefer, Kristian Kwiecinski, Andreas Nicolas, Michal Piasecki, Frederico Weber) and are looking forward to all the ideas and projects which will pop up during the workshop. Together with these guys we try to come up with personalised products resulting from the marriage of geometry, code and data. The parametrically generated forms will be produced and tested using the FabLab production facilities. Everyday from 16:30h to 18:00h the workshop is open to everyone. We’ll do a short presentation about the workshop and show the current state of the projects. Please come along and talk to us about creative coding, generative design, digital production or whatever else is on your mind. Thuesday the 8th at 16:30h there’s the final presentation of the workshop results.

On Friday the 7th at 14:00h Eva Tucek will hold a public pesentation about wax-3D-printing for jewelry.

Beside this workshop Stephen and I will do a presentation about emotional interfaces for generative design. We would love to see you there as well.

If you can’t make it to the Ars Electronica Festival 2009 in Linz, we’ll keep you updated during the workshop on our blog, twitter, facebook and flickr.

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