{"id":1808,"date":"2009-07-31T01:46:40","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T23:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=1808"},"modified":"2009-08-01T01:26:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:26:20","slug":"3d-printing-fabbing-lockpicking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/3d-printing-fabbing-lockpicking\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing. Fabbing. Lockpicking."},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonas<\/a> has graciously spent time with us in Gothenburg and just got back to Stockholm, the town north of here. I’ve signed up for a few more dives and am looking forward to that. SKUP PALET<\/a>, the art organisation that a bunch of us have started, is slowly getting its shit together and it looks like we’re going to represent at an art fair in Copenhagen. I visited Arcam<\/a> today, the Gotheburg company that produces stuff in titanium that I wrote about in the post on rapid prototyping<\/a>, and had a chat and a tour of their facilities; I got some insight into how specialised their buisiness model is, with only 50 machines worldwide.<\/p>\n

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As research before my MFA lockpicking presentation<\/a> I interviewed Marc Weber Tobias<\/a>. He had forwarded his Skype account to his cellphone and talked to me as he stopped for gas somewhere in a desert. The world felt just as small and awesome as when I was in high school and interviewed NASA for the radio show we were doing. (The feeling being “I can call anyone<\/em> and ask anything<\/em>!”) There’s an article on him and his doings over at Wired, which you might enjoy.<\/p>\n

\u2192 Wired, Charles Gr\u00e6ber: The ultimate lock picker exposes weak military installations, corporate systems<\/a><\/p>\n

What comes through in the article \u2013 beside his drive and intelligence \u2013\u00a0is the lack of patience with stupidity and a genuine fascination with stuff. It’s a quality that many nerds and other obsessive people share, and I sympathise with it. It’s this fascination that I was trying to gleam at my meeting with Patrik Ohldin<\/a> at Arcam.<\/p>\n

Of course, coming from a sci-fi reading background and with my head full of ideas on the end of stuff<\/em> that rapid prototyping is hearalding, I felt much as the city kid staring in awe and disbelief at someone milking a cow. Patrik had a much more buisiness minded approach to the technology; He keeps abreast of what is happening in their sector, but the changing human perception of what originality implies in the face of CAD-to-production<\/em> just isn’t part of their business. Making spare parts for humans and cars is.<\/p>\n

It was nice to see what they were up to, and it’s always exiting to learn first hand about hight tech stuff, but now I feel I’d need to complement this excursion with a visit to the lo-fi end of the spectrum. Are there any home-fabbers in Gothenburg? Point them in my direction.<\/p>\n

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Jonas has graciously spent time with us in Gothenburg and just got back to Stockholm, the town north of here. I’ve signed up for a few more dives and am looking forward to that. SKUP PALET, the art organisation that a bunch of us have started, is slowly getting its shit together and it looks … Continue reading 3D printing. Fabbing. Lockpicking.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,279,546],"tags":[829,855,859,854,857,874,860],"class_list":["post-1808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles","category-photography","category-projects","tag-3d-printing","tag-additive-production","tag-bumping","tag-fabbing","tag-mark-weber","tag-modern-art","tag-picking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1808"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1923,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1808\/revisions\/1923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}