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Grow, ferrofluid and robotic

A nice creative process mixing kinect motion tracking abilities, robotic, sculpting and ferrofluid, allowing creator to 3d sculpt an object in air. Xavier MONTOY Guillaume ANDRE / FablLab-ENSCI Le projet Grow a pour but de permettre au plus grand nombre de prendre part à la création d’un objet. Grâce à Kinect, l’utilisateur n’a plus besoin de maîtriser les outils de conception traditionnels (logiciels 3D…) et peut prendre part a la conception de son objet à travers une expérience nouvelle : modeler la matière grâce à un simple geste. L”utilisateur modèle…

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Hemp walls

Push Design made news with a beautiful Hemp House in Asheville, North Carolina.  It received significant media attention — notwithstanding a multitude of jokes conflating industrial hemp and marijuana.  Now, hemp is being used for more projects, as shown in the above video from CBS Minnesota.  Due to strict regulations, hemp is imported and mixed with water and lime to create a light, insulating, concrete-like mass for walls

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Bagasse: energy and paper

Discover Bagasse: Sugar Cane Bagasse is an agricultural waste made from 100% recycled materials. From energy to paper . In addition to being treeless, Sugar Cane Bagasse products are 100% biodegradable and compostable with renewable cycles of 12 months making them an ideal choice for sustainability.   Unlike comparable paper products where it takes up to 30 years for renewal cycles of Tree Made paper with the h arvesting of over 900 million trees annually in the USA alone.

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