Self Assembly micro and macro scale

 

 

http://phyllotax.is/self-assembly/

Patterned by Nature

Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (naturalsciences.org) for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.

Just One More Game … Angry Birds, Farmville and Other Hyperaddictive ‘Stupid Games’

NYTimes hacks its own webpage, allowing readers to attack annoying ads in sidebar, space invaders style…

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/08/magazine/angry-birds-farmville-and-other-hyperaddictive-stupid-games.html

Building blocks that blink, beep and teach – Ayah Bdeir

People who have Lego or DIY circuit project ideas may find this interesting

Nano Self-Assembly origami like structures

“Drawing inspiration from biological fabrication in nature, engineers are seeking to self-assemble structures from the bottom up. The Gracias Lab at The Johns Hopkins University has developed a relatively easy, precise, and cost-effective process by which the 2D templates of semi-tethered “faces” can self-assemble into controlled 3D structures by utilizing the natural phenomena of surface tension as well as thin-film stress. ”

Buckle in

Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/buckliball-collapsible-structure-0326.html

Transcendent Man Viewing/Discussion

This Tuesday GTNeuro will hosting our first social event. We will be viewing the film Transcendent Man, a highly rated and provocative movie about what technology could do for human intelligence. The movie focuses on the idea of “Singularity” which is the merging of human and technological intelligences and what it could mean for humanity as a whole. After watching the movie we will have a discussion lead by Dr. Steve Potter- Georgia Tech Director of the Laboratory for NeuroEngineering. Food and refreshments will be served during the screening. You can check event details and sign up for this event on our website if you plan on attending: http://www.gtneuro.net/?q=node%2F186

• Tuesday

  6:00pm until 8:00pm
• Whittaker 1103

Cubic Newspaper Tower

Sanika Mokashi & Shani Sharif

Making a single cube with 4 sheets of newspaper

No lock your new cube to the previous one. Continue the process to have your own tower!

Unit Origami Diagram