Maker Match

05/10/2023

OpenAI’s new Shap-E tool is Dall-E for 3D objects

Shap-E is a model that allows you to generate 3D objects from text, building off OpenAI's other AI tools.

05/31/2021

If you want to checkout how some concepts for aQuademy watercraft taxis look like, join us for SIXR - Future Founders Maker Fellowship Final Presentation - https://bit.ly/futuremaker2021

20 paid youth participants (5 project teams) from High School to University collaborated in this product design entrepreneurship program where they learnt product design, engineering analysis, rapid prototyping (3D printing and laser cutting), business pitching, and product marketing. You’ll be amazed by the solutions they come up with.

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07/25/2020

One of my professor friends is starting an autonomous vehicles company and wants me to be in the board of advisors. They also produce educational materials that I’m interested in bringing into Seattle schools and perhaps Africa.
Micro-AV.com

There could be much synergy with SPS (Seattle Public School) where I’m teaching, SIXR (Simulated Immersive eXperimental Realities) that I co-founded, BIG (Banana Island Global) Move, and Micro-AV. We might have the first operational autonomous public transportation in Africa.

Autonomy for everyone!

05/24/2020

Update on the Pearls of Sabah, floating schools for the stateless children in Sabah, Malaysia:

I was on call with Mohamed, a businessman in Malaysia. He's my friend's business partner who is dealing in Solar panel projects and investment. His friend's (ex-roomate) brother in-law is the Chief Minister in Sabah, Malaysia, who seems to be quite popular with the locals and also has received western education.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shafie_Apdal

Mohamed like the idea, and I asked him to do feasibility study in Malaysia including the due diligence about the host nonprofit organization that invited us.

The state government seems to desire alternative revenue streams, which we’ll provide aside from top notch sustainable design schools for the stateless children learning about agribusinesses, hybrid power generation, algae biofuels, water desalination, Internet Of Things for automating the various systems, which are parts of the floating schools. Just like what Michael Strong said, Making Everybody Rich.

https://borneobulletin.com.bn/sabah-has-recipe-for-rapid-growth-chief-minister-shafie/

This last article described how the head of the state is ready to support and optimistic about alternative revenue streams other than oil, gas, timber, and tourism.

When completed, the floating schools will cover 20 hectares of water.

Southeast Asia Sabah has recipe for rapid growth: Chief Minister Shafie March 31, 2019 SIPITANG (Bernama) – Sabah has the perfect recipe to achieve exponential growth as the Malaysian state is abundant with natural resources, raw materials and attractive travel destinations which can further boost...

05/20/2020

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04/27/2020

I’m designing floating schools for stateless children in Sabah, Malaysia and could use some volunteers to build our case for the Pearls of Sabah project, a project Coalition for Education and Learning (CFEL) bit.ly/cfel_overview .

I just signed up to present the Pearls of Sabah project by introducing CFEL at a national online/offline Maker-convention with the "makers4humanity" from May,29 to June, 1st under the title "for futures summit" during "island-maker" talk or discussion to compare projects, materials, applications.

The caveat is that this project is at its embryonic stage, so we sort of don’t have anything lockdown yet. What I’m presenting will be our research in term problem solving world challenges for 100 students using bio fabrication and green new technology curriculum and how education and learning ties in together all bits and pieces to form highly functional ecosystem and empowering low income stateless communities worldwide starting from Sabah, Malaysia because it’s at its core an educational and learning facility.

I’m working toward distilling the green technology and science behind the engineering of building the floating schools into educational pieces for problem solving based curriculum. The whole green facilities (geodesic bamboo, floating mushrooms, wave power generator, biorocks fish farm, aeroponic,...) become the education and learning tools for problem solving projects based curriculum where apprentices getting paid stipend for going to schools and offered seed capital and access to other resources to start their own floating island once they graduate.

The floating schools for stateless children in Sabah, Malaysia will offer bio-fabrication and sustainability curriculum (passive solar water sanitation, CO2 scrubber, solar power, biofuels, ...)

Ultimately, the mission is to provide multigenerational, self sufficient and sustainable, habitation for 1 Billion displaced persons.

Please contact me here: [email protected]

P.S.: I have this love and hate relationship with deadlines. Deadlines is probably the only to get things done. 😂 lol

04/26/2020

[NBC News] - Catch a glimpse of Katy Ayers paddling her canoe on a Nebraska lake this summer and you might do a double take.
At first glance, her 8-foot vessel looks much like any other canoe — same oblong shape, same pointed ends, same ability to float on water.
But upon closer inspection, it’s clearly anything but ordinary: Ayers’ canoe is made out of mushrooms.
More specifically, her boat is made from mycelium, the dense, fibrous roots of the mushroom that typically live beneath the soil. Ayers, 28, a student at Central Community College in Columbus, Nebraska, even gave her creation a fitting name: “Myconoe.”

“Mushrooms are here to help us — they’re a gift,” college student Katy Ayers said. “They’re our biggest ally for helping the environment.”

04/22/2020

Does anyone here know anyone who is passionate or an expert in Maritime Mycelium for building a floating island? I’m designing floating schools for stateless children in Sabah, Malaysia, and for the schools, I would like to also offer bio-fabrication and sustainability curriculum (passive solar water sanitation, CO2 scrubber, solar power, biofuels, ...)

Please contact me here: