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Sketching08 talk: Good Hardware APIs et al

The Sketching in Hardware ‘08 conference was held at RISD in Providence, Rhode Island this year. Both RISD and Providence were very welcoming and I think we had a lot of fun. Once again, Mike pulls off an awesome conference.

For my talk, since I didn’t have one big thing I’ve been working on this last year, I decided to shotgun blast a bunch of different topics out there, arranged roughly on the topics:
- Good Hardware APIs – about the evolution of BlinkM’s layout,
- USB not on Rails – an update to a previous Sketching talk of mine, and
- From 2D to 3D – experiments in 3D shapes from 2D lasercutter output

The PDF of my talk with notes:
- sketching08-talk-todekurt.pdf (5.8MB PDF)

And some screencaps of a few of the slides:

Posted by todbot on Thursday, July 31st, 2008 at 7:11 pm.

7 Responses to “Sketching08 talk: Good Hardware APIs et al”

[...] Tod’s presentation is available from his blog on todbot. The particular blog entry is here: http://todbot.com/blog/2008/07/31/sketching08-talk-good-hardware-apis-et-al/ [...]

Left by flightsofideas.com » Blog Archive » Flights of Ideas gets a mention at “Sketching in Hardware ‘08″ on August 2nd, 2008

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Left by Ponoko Blog on August 5th, 2008

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Left by Memos From the Cube » Blog Archive » VHD(hel)L on August 5th, 2008

[...] Tod E Kurt of ThingM, the “ubiquitous computing device studio” has posted the slides for a talk he gave at the intrigueingly titled Sketching in Hardware ‘08 conference that was held at RISD in Providence, Rhode Island this year. [...]

Left by Ponoko Blog on August 6th, 2008

Hi Tod,

The slides of your talk look really interesting. Would you have a recording of your talk as a podcast (mp3 or video)? And, will other talks from Sketching in Hardware 08 be available as podcasts (mp3 or video), and or slides?

Thanks,
Jim

Left by JimGf on September 2nd, 2008

Hi Jim,

Thanks! But, nope, we didn’t record any audio or video. Mike will be putting the other speakers’ slides up on the Sketching08.com site at some point. If you have any questions about my stuff, feel free to let me know.

Left by todbot on September 2nd, 2008

[...] My good friend Tod Kurt had done a lot of experimentation in this area, which you can read about in his slides for a Sketching Conference talk entitled From 2D -> 3D. [...]

Left by Laser cutting for 3D objects - machine quotidien on June 19th, 2009

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