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Palazzo dei Pio pt.3

While waiting for the vaults to be printed, I worked on the laser cut files. We decided to engrave the windows and the doors, plus other architectural elements, in order to see them on the plexiglas and simultaneously see what’s inside.

The result was the best I could imagine, you can see some details in the first two pictures.

Once everything was ready, the parts have been brought to Carpi and mounted. 

As said in the first post, it has been fun, crazy and I learned so much! Apart from the broken 3D printers, everything worked precisely! 

A special thank to Paolo, Francesco who sponsored the material and my team at the SciFabLab, which is, as always, impeccable.

Palazzo dei Pio pt.2

Since I was working on a very tight schedule, all 5 3D printers were working simultaneously. Of course, something had to go wrong, so one of the power cable burnt... and it was Thursday night... Plus one of the prints failed when almost complete. The reason was that it started tilting due to the heigh, as it didn’t have much surface attached to the printer’s bed. So, the only decision I could make is to take my sleeping bag and sleep at the lab, in order to check the prints every 30 minutes and keep the progress under control.

This is an old one, this poster is hanging on the wall of the SciFabLab.

I made it for the Olivetti exposition that we hosted back in 2014 where  many old typewriters and old electronic devices were exposed. We were honored by the presence of our special guests Gastone Garziera and Giovanni De Sandre, who entertained us with the anecdotes and technical information about the first desktop computer, the Olivetti P101. These two amazing men were part of Perotto’s team, It happened in 1965 when they realized the first desktop computer of the world. 

Can you solve it?

“To write, to learn, to write, to convey to others the vision of your knowledge, your learning, your wisdom. To write fluently, effortlessly.” 

Abdus Salam

After the internship at Luca Nichetto Studio, in April 2016, I met Francesco Zardini (historian and illustrator) and Nicole Rodda (anthropologist), so we created WOO. This is the acronym for “Work Over and Over”, which is a part of the sentence that Abdus Salam pronounced after the announcement of his Nobel Prize win in 1979. Our aim is to divulge innovative, multidisciplinary culture, open to new possibilities and technologies. The first prototype is a project that we introduced at the Trieste Mini Maker Faire 2016. It is a panel which is a didactical support and a display. The represented character is Abdus Salam, funder of ICTP (International Centre for Theoretical Physics). The back of the figure contains a series of icons on which we wrote curious anecdotes that describe the life of this exceptional man. It is integrated with another project which aim is to convey art to blind people. All the texts were translated to braille writing which accompanied a 3D printed relief of the watercolor drawing (which someone liked it to the point that it disappeared... and I printed more than one), the outline of the figure is 1.5mm thick, to make it easily readable. A laser cut world map highlights Abdus’ itinerary to Trieste.