We run the first ever personal powerplant workshop at Eyebeam last Saturday as part of the sustainable scrapyard challenge. It was success and fun and 10 power plants where built from scratch and working by the end of this 8 hour long day.

Some details and instructions online.

I’ve been having lots of trouble finding designers, artists, creators who use make source files or instructions available for their creations. Or that use the internet for distributing their physical objects (download, print and make or select, personalize and get your local guy to build it… but surely there are other possible models out there).

If anyone knows of anything like that, please send them my way.

But i did come accross Jules, a little Readymech character designed by graphic design group Fwis. These characters are available for download and fit into an 8×11 page. I printed, folded, glued and had my Readymech ready.

This week’s theme. Open Design.
Research in what is out there, who uses the catch phrase and what comes from it.

First stop: Open Design by Kadushin — I downloaded his Candle Holder 1 design and tried to do it myslef with cardboard instead (post office package).