http://www.lets-evo.net/blog Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:05:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Meet DIYLILCNC, an opensource CNC milling machine project set to teach anyone to build there own milling tool. The initiative came from 2 chicago-based artists and educators of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Thanks to them, today with around 700 dollars and some time invested putting the ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/03/13/diylilcnc/ How open source software comes about is still a myth for lots of people. The notion that a group of people with no monetary reward can get together and create something as complex as an operational system like Linux challenges all our previous notions of the market laws of ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/03/07/principles-of-participation-for-open-information-communities/ Inovação Aberta - Open InnovationView more presentations from gcm.Great presentation on open innovation by Brazilian entrepreneurs Gian Carlo Martinelli, Bruno Rondani and Rene Fernandes. Some Portuguese required. Even though presented in 2008, it is still very valid. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/03/02/spreading-the-knowledge-to-open-up/ Want to see how the earth looks like from way way up in the skies? send a balloon equipped with some smart electronics and let it do some sightseeing for you. That's what this group of hardware hackers did. Their balloon reached 70000 feet, aprox. 21 Kilometers of altitude and ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/02/28/diy-group-sends-balloon-to-the-stratosphere/ [caption id="attachment_1454" align="aligncenter" width="540" caption=""][/caption] via Bornactivist http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/02/22/diy-fashion-awesomeness/ [caption id="attachment_1445" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Monareta Rebaixada"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1447" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Monareta Boom Box"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1448" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Ceci Loucamente Tuned"][/caption] Call it disruptive innovation or user innovation, bike tuning is one of the seeds of the DIY movement. Here in Brazil, specially away from the big cities, a whole lot is happening. Check ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/02/13/bike-tuning/ Delivered in Beta from KS12 on Vimeo. The conversation around the concept of Open Design is starting to pick up momentum, last week at the Betahaus in Berlin, a workshop was organized during the Social Media Week Berlin 2010 to discuss the topic among designers. The documentary: Delivered in Beta was ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/02/09/open-design-in-a-documentary-delivered-in-beta/ via Downhill Berlin http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/02/08/rider-steve-peat-photoshop-madness/ The Nextfab and the Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer are planning a conference about Personal fabrication in Brazil in 2010, for that, they organized a survey to gather some information about people interested in attending/presenting at the conference. I suggest everyone interested in the subjects of Open Design, ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/01/26/brazillian-innovators-unite-survey-for-possible-conference-on-personal-fabrication-in-brazil/ The little video acompaning the new wired cover story, helps to explain this "new industrial revolution" we are entering on. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/01/26/atoms-are-the-new-bits/ Following Local Motors tweet, commenting next month's Wired magazine cover story, the New Industrial Revolution Issue: On the cover, Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson puts: "The factory, the investors, the workers - obsolete. In the age of DIY manufacturing, all you need is a garage and a great idea." Even dough I ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/01/23/thoughts-on-the-new-industrial-revolution/ Hello 2010, Personally, you mark the end of a 6 year incubation period in Germany and in Holland, where I lived amazing encounters that helped shape a great part of my design education and defined the beginning of my professional career. For Letsevo, you mark the beginning of new perspectives back ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2010/01/08/hello-2010/ This week, I am working on a new section on the website with the goal of becoming a central hub of Information on the platform. Until now, the common place for news and all non-project information was our Blog which has been supporting everything, from photo galleries of events we ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/12/01/letsevo-radar/ The Eyewriter Project is an on-going effort to empower Phisically paralyzed artists to get back to creation. Powered by DIY tools and opensource software, the group has put together an amazing video showing the technology being used by the legendary LA graffiti writer Tony Quan, aka TEMPTONE, was almost completely ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/11/17/the-eyewriter-project/ Martin Wenzel created this sculptural wooden bar in Rio de Janeiro. He came up this work for the opening of the Studio Antonia Rodrigues and the launch of the 6th issue of Miroir, the young design and fashion magazine published by Priscila Miranda. I have long watched his experiments with ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/11/09/friends-rockin-martin-wenzel-hits-jardim-botanico/ I love DIY so I made these web badges. Download them and Spread the love!! [caption id="attachment_1306" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="I love DIY badges"][/caption] Several sizes along with a Black version with white Type are available. If one of the sizes doesn't suit your website perfectly, open the photoshop master file and DIY ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/11/03/i-love-diy-badges/ The Folha Seca, one of our boards developed in collaboration with Brazilian ecological company Fibra, was featured in last weekend's Esporte Espetacular. We are still working to put the board on the market but  it's great to see our project getting this kind of attention. The snippet of the TV ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/27/on-tv-letsevo-project-ecosk8-featured-at-esporte-espetacular/ A step-by-step instruction guide of our DIY Skateboard project is up on the project's page. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/23/diy-skateboard-project-instructions-updated/ Please full-screen this video. Amazing spots, awesome Longboard Film. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/21/wish-i-could-skate-all-these-spots/ Mark your calendars if your are in Rio de Janeiro  next Sunday, 25th of october. It's the first screening of LookOut - Temporada na neve, at 9th Mostra Internacional de Filmes de Montanha. LookOut shows the day-to-day experiences of 4 friends on a season of snowboarding in USA. It was ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/21/lookout-film-a-brazillian-snowboard-season/ There are several  3D CAD software packages available for designers today. Among them we can find mainly 3 kinds of 3D software, each one of which excels in a different way: Nurbs modelers whelp create amazing surface models and are widely used to create fast complex surfaces,  Polygon-based modelers due ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/18/freecad-an-open-source-parametric-design-software-that-could-shape-the-next-era-off-product-innovation/ What if the whole idea of innovation awards and design prizes could be turned up side down to a bottom up decision process? What if we could show our appreciation to the people that inspires us, giving them something to be proud of? After writing about the Madmax Bike spotted in ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/10/inspiring-bastard-awar/ I heard a Chinese proverb one day that I believe being of key importance to Innovation. It goes like this: "Those who think it can't be done should not disturb those doing it" The reason I want to share this at the blog is that when it comes to building stuff that ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/09/the-wisdom-of-ignoring-when-creating-something-new/ If you are a madmax kind of guy, this is the bike you should be riding. I love to bump into this kind of creations, it really inspires me. This bike is so awesome, I guess it was made from an old moped frame, adapted to bike....any clues on which ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/07/spotted-in-lyon-hot-wheels-redefined/ I just finished the prototypes of our project's open databases. From now on, each Letsevo project has an open database featuring the project's most important open data. This database can be accessed by Letsevo developers right from each projects' sidebar. See it working For some of our projects, this database will mean ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/06/letsevo-projects-open-databases-cad-libraries-diy-instructions/ We got to love this ad from Norway. via: designbivouac http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/03/new-generation-of-engineering/ [caption id="attachment_1103" align="alignleft" width="600" caption="Human Body Template"][/caption] Made for checking the frame ergonomics of our e.Moped project, this 1:1 Scale drawing can also be helpful for other projects. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/10/01/human-body-template-for-ergonomic-check/ I had a chance to spot 3 vary interesting electric  motorcycle concepts during my visit to the TU Delft for the Advanced Automotive Design Symposium. Unfortunately I do not have any information about these 3 concepts for now. I saw this models only when leaving the Aula and since I ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/28/3-interesting-electric-motorcycle-concepts-spotted-at-the-tu-delft/ With the theme "what does Brazil has to offer to world today?", the first TEDx organized in Brazil has been creating a buzz in Brazil's blogosphere. The date is confirmed: 14th of november 2009 at the Teatro Anhembi Morumbi. Check the confirmed voices at the events page via @gcmartinelli http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/27/tedx-conference-coming-to-sao-paulo/ Hello! Welcome to my first post here. When I told Henrique that I was going to this event, he suggested I write a post for the site and share some of what I had experienced.  So here it is.... I had the pleasure of going to Friedrichshafen this year to attend ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/25/eurobike-2009/ I just brought home the book Producing Open Source Software. I am roughly in the middle of it now but I already feel the need to manifest my admiration for it's teachings. The book, written by Karl Fogel, an open source developer himself, not only exposes the dynamics of open ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/23/applying-the-teachings-of-open-source-development-to-hardware/ I saw this little car last week in Monaco and went on to research where it comes from. It's the Newteon Estrima, Newteon describes itself as an electric vehicles distribution network and they are based in France. They market a series of electric vehicles but I couldn't really tell if ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/22/spotted-in-the-streets-of-monaco-a-micro-electric-car/ This month was full of work on what regards the website. The migration from wordpress to joomla is openning up new possibilities for Letsevo as a collaborative platform. After the implementation of a Forum system, I added some social networking functionality to enable inter communication between collaborators and most importantly, have ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/09/small-steps-big-dreams/ Desde o ano passado que a Letsevo disponibiliza um de seus shapes de skate para artistas manifestarem sua arte. A série de shapes ainda totalmente virtuais, é uma maneira da Letsevo abrir as portas para futuras colaborações em nossos produtos. A gente vai mostrar pra vocês o trabalho do Fernando ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/09/03/entrevista-com-fernando-zanoni-designer-artista-e-skatista/ Mountain Bike videos shot by flying "birds"? I see my wish closer to reality. Via Yann's Techno Toys Blog http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/08/29/impressive-wing-flapping-micro-uav/ Derek from Lahr Cycles posted the development photos on his homemade bike frame at the ride monkey forums. It's really interesting to see that you don't need much to create a working model, from here, it can only get better. Way to go Derek. Check the finished model at the ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/08/21/homemade-carbon-bike-frame/ [caption id="attachment_923" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="20090803-Participation Platform - first sketch"][/caption] I tried to illustrate in the picture above, what an participatory innovation ecosystem Letsevo wants to be. It is the first attempt to organize and communicate the concepts being discussed here at the blog. I believe that People, Ideas, Projects, Collaboration, ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/08/03/open-innovation-cycle-a-sketch/ This month was full of extremes, apart from the adventure of building a new forum for Letsevo and my new more aerodynamic hair style, I was fortunate enough to join two good friends onto another adventure, Crossing the Alps between Italy and France. Together with Jochen and Johannes, we ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/07/31/west-alps-mountain-bike-cross/ [caption id="attachment_866" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="At Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial in Rio, 2002 - The whole Crew"][/caption] Back in 2002, in Rio. EVO Skateboards was launched. I put some old school photosup. What a fun night!! =) Great times! http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/07/25/letsevo-roots-2002-rio-de-janeiro/ [caption id="attachment_859" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="..."][/caption] We are proud to post here the first entries to our "Artist Series" initiative of the ecosk8 project. To know more about the Artists and their work, make sure to visit the project's gallery http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/07/24/ecosk8-project-thanks-to-all-collaborating-artists/ While reading about open source software development, I bumped into a product development methodology that seems pretty different than the methodologies being talked about in Design Schools and yet very interesting to be spread around further into product design context. Meet SCRUM, a methodology mainly used in software development in ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/07/06/scrum-and-collaborative-product-development/ [caption id="attachment_805" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="..."][/caption] I have been twittering on last months about the research I was doing in order to improve the Letsevo Innovation Platform. The first implementation is out today, the Letsevo Forums. Built using the open source CMS software Joomla, the forums are made to support the conversation ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/06/28/launch-of-the-letsevo-forums/ [caption id="attachment_792" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="..."][/caption] We have been hearing that we are all have 3D printers at home in the future and produce our on things. Today, for 750 US Dollars you can buy a Makerbot Kit and start printing your life around. It's all open source, meaning if you feel ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/06/26/makerbot-an-opensource-3d-printer/ Once again, Casom organized a graffiti session here in Delft. Together with JAC, ENZ, Sike 2 and Stefan, we spent the whole Saturday afternoon writing. It was really nice to see Stefan writing for the first time with Spray cans, I am use to see his amazing design sketches at ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/06/25/wall-writing-weekend/ [caption id="attachment_717" align="alignnone" width="525" caption="..."][/caption] I just received a flyer of bicycle race that will be held in Delft next 5th of July. It would be my first race on the pavement and I am pretty excited to participate. I would still be competing on a mountain bike and because of ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/06/23/support-for-a-bicycle-race-in-delft-holland/ MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. Italian artist Blu wows everyone with his amazingly crafted wall animation. More of his work on blublu.org http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/06/11/blus-muto-wall-animation/ [caption id="attachment_692" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="....."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_691" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="...."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_690" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="...."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_686" align="alignnone" width="581" caption="...."][/caption] Thanks to Casom and ENZ, I finally got a chance to do graffiti for the first time. They invited me for a day spraying at a legal wall here in Delft. The sun was ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/05/23/sexta-feira-e-dia-de-grafite/ Here are the photos of my visit to this year's Hannover Industry Fair, Germany's most important innovation event. I had an amazing time during my 2 day visit to the fair. Under Highlights are the great work of my friends from the school of arts and Design in Offebach, some ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/05/02/hannover-industry-fair-2009/ Made me want to start a DIY Backyard Wakeboard Park Project . Thanks to Kim for the cool "in the water" photos with her new camera. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/04/29/wakeboard-weekend/ Last Saturday, 4th of April at the San Jose Motorcycle Park, the race was on for the first ever? (correct me if I am wrong) electric motocross race. The dudes at Wired.Com wrote a great story about it, and a cool video which I'm posting it here. I taught that since the ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/04/08/24-hours-of-electricross-emoped-milestone/ Follow us at: http://www.twitter.com/letsevo http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/04/06/twitter-evo/ Last week was Cut and Paste time in Amsterdam. During the whole evening, the battle was on at amsterdam's most traditional club, Paradiso. Back in 2006 I briefly wrote about the Cut and Paste design tournament after seen a video done by the guys from Cool Hunting. Last Thursday I ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/04/05/cut-and-paste-amsterdam/ Last Month I was back in Rio de Janeiro, 3 weeks of a mix of relaxing moments with friends and important meetings. While there, I remembered that when I was still in University, one of my good friends Daniel Xveid would always remind me that one day, I would have ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/04/02/light-diystrict-lamp-made-in-rio/ With the new phase system on open projects, it is becoming easier to keep track on the discussion and to participate on the development of each project. On the e.Moped project, I have started to discuss with Piers the points relevant to the Understanding of the world around electric mopeds. ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/03/10/emoped-project-phase-1-discussion-started/ Communicating what is the current state of a open project and what are the next steps to be taken has been done until now, purely by the exchange of emails between the collaborators of the platform. To an extend this works fine, but something was still missing: A simple way ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/02/03/letsevo-update-project-status-indicator-added-to-each-open-project/ Choosing the right colors for a product is not an easy task, what usually happens is that a designer also doesn't have enough time left to experiment with color because he spent it all on finding the perfect shape and solving out all technical requirements. That's were design combinatorics can ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/01/14/design-combinatorics-scripting-as-a-part-of-the-design-process/ My favorite design blog Core77 just put up their new 1-HOUR Design Challenge: Design a laser-cut grip tape inlay for a Longboard. They teamed up with "Laser Cutting for the masses" company Ponoko and Bustin Boards and will be receiving entries until January 28. The best 3 designs will be ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2009/01/07/skateboard-design-challenge-laser-cut-griptape-designs/ Buglabs is a tech company that has managed to put a modular gadget concept on the market with which people can use their creativity and build any kind of device they want. It consists of different modules (i.e. Camera, LCD display, GPS, motiontracker) which can be plugged together just like ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/12/24/buglabs-and-open-source-hardware/ I just finished the drawings of the DIYstrict Light for Letsevo. Super simple and easy to build, you can leave on the floor to give your house a mine field look or hang from the ceiling. Step by Step: DIYstrict light - Build, Plug and Play! http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/11/01/light-diystrict-use-less-and-share-more/ Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor explains how our right and left brain hemispheres controls our lives by sharing her own experiences of a brain stroke. Her talk truly moved me, absolutely brilliant. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/10/30/letsevo-tv-my-stroke-of-insight/ Choosing a name for an art object can be quite challenging actually. Maybe that's the reason for so many "untitled" art works out there, it can be also that many artists who name their artworks Untitled just don't give a F@&k about names after all. I didn't think too much ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/10/08/an-object-without-a-proper-name-yet/ In part 2 of this series of posts, I will be explaining some of aspects of nature's design that appeared during the research phase of the Neptuno Submarine. How many fins should a fin propelled submarine feature and how are they arranged? such question can only be answered when we ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/10/07/neptuno-submarine-a-small-step-towards-a-more-natural-way-of-exploring-the-oceans-part-2/ Some weeks ago I received an email from Thomas Brien, a Marine Design student at Massey University Auckland, New Zealand, who wants some help with his ongoing graduation project, two-person submarine. After writing back and forth I am posting here some detailed info about the Neptuno project, an experiment into ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/09/23/neptuno-submarine-a-small-step-towards-a-more-natural-way-of-exploring-the-oceans-part-1/ Letsevo is addicted to Art, and the place where art meets product design is where the Ecosk8 Artist Series wants to be. It is with great pleasure that I review here the first collaborations of Artists for what Letsevo would love to have as a future series of skateboard decks. ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/09/02/letsevo-ecosk8-artist-decks/ Until now, a total of 19 Artists collaborated with 36 Artworks until today, Letsevo's Favorite Picks are: Sextafeira from Amnd (Brazil) ~ so many possibilities ~ from opaquEpiphany (Australia) Thanks for all contributions! It very exciting to see all of your creations! Spread the word, push the button. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/08/08/scan-heads-art-project/ This experiment can turn out to be a new section on the e.Moped project site, It's my first attempt to use yahoo pipes mashup tool. The pipe you see above can aggregate automatically solidworks+tutorial Tags in the bookmarking service Delicious along with tutorials from the the SWX Design website into ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/08/08/using-yahoo-pipes-to-agregate-for-solidworks-tutorials-for-the-emoped-project/ A new application for the Iphone, called Netsketch, enables two people to draw an image together, through the touch interface of the Iphone. I don't believe it can be of great use in a professional design environment but I have to take my hat of for this fun initiative. I ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/08/06/iphone-collaboration-sketching-app/ If you just can't wait for the next generation of city planers, start building the world as you would like it to be. Letsevo has put a CAD BMX Ramp in google earth Location: Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Download the file, open it up in google ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/08/05/google-earth%c2%b4s-favorite-location-letsevos-bmx-lake-jump-ramp-rio-de-janeiro-brasil/ http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/07/17/letsevo-tv-clay-shirky-on-institutions-vs-collaboration/ This is what you get when you export green thunders in a box from Rhinoceros as a .3dxml file and import into 3DVIA platform. Navigate through the thunder storm I built by going to the Model`s page. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/07/09/green-thunders-kept-in-a-box/ If it looks as awesome as the amazingly crafted C-Thru Bike from BME, I am afraid it does. The C-thru road frame is made from solid carbon rods carefully bonded together into its geometry. BME is the effort of the Slovakian engineer Brano Meres who has been experimenting among other things, ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/06/12/does-the-world-need-another-carbon-fiber-bike/ Numa iniciativa de envolver artistas e de reunir desenhos para futuras artes dos shapes do projeto ecosk8 estou colocando disponível aqui no site um arquivo .PSD (photoshop) para servir de base para futuros gráficos dos decks ecosk8. Se vc é um artista e quer participar:Leia mais http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/04/14/aos-artistas/    http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/04/14/novo-shape-em-desenvolvimento/ Surf's up when the two rivers, Rio Negro and Rio Solimões meet each other. Most Def a Letsevo Destination. Enjoy the images. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/03/12/surfers-paradise-amazonia/ Charles Leadbeater just finished his book We-Think. And for it's start, he put out this video in youtube questioning the crowd about the challenges of today's sharing culture. well, I think that the days of the lonely scientist are gone. Today, initiating conversations and sharing ideas is the a fundamental ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/03/10/we-think/ Long before the term "User Generated" became popular, Eric von Hippel, an MIT Professor, has been spreading his thoughts about the role of "Lead users" in product innovation. He has written a "Must Read" book for everyone interested in the way innovations come about. In Democratizing Innovation he dismantles the myth ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/03/07/book-suggestion-democratizing-innovation/ Today is the offcial start of the e.Moped Design Project. After having talked to some friends about Letsevo's plans to start a open source project of an electric scooter, the wishes have finally come to reality. I spent a a couple of hours programming and setting up the space for ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/02/28/join-the-new-letsevo-project-emoped-open-development-of-an-electric-mobility-device/ This next article seems to Letsevo as a great mark in the collaborative design process. Wikitecture, as the folks from the Wikitecture Studio are calling it, is the first attempt I have seen in order to solve a long anticipated challenge of coming up with a programming language to build ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/02/27/wikitecture-and-the-possible-begin-of-collaborative-computer-aided-design/ There has been a lot of hype nowadays around concepts like crowd-sourcing and open-source and user-generated things. Lots of new business are been started and closed everyday trying to grasp this leap of todays way of working. But many of them haven't achieved great success because business plans for such ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/02/25/klustercom-a-step-to-revolutionize-the-economics-of-product-development/ A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine asked me if I could tell him about design events that are happening here in Europe since he is planning to spend some months traveling around the old continent. I sent him a couple of events that I know happen every ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/02/19/letsevo-feat-upcomingorg-you-collaborative-innovation-calendar/ It took a while to believe but we were there! Our Ecosk8 project was nominated for the board category of this years Volvo Sportsdesign Award. Among names like Salomon Snowboards, Arbor Snowboards and amazing projects like the Ecomoana Surfboard, our "Folha Seca" skateboard was the only chosen product from the ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2008/02/14/letsevo-and-fibra-design-sustentavel-at-volvo-sportsdesign-award/ It is time to get environmental again, and I want to do that pointing out to a new video send to me by a fellow designer Bernardo van de Schepop (Valeu!!). The video, part of the website The story of Stuff,aims to expose the inner workings of consumer ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/12/14/can-diy-save-the-queen/ I just had to try to build something in 3dvia Shape to see what it can do. I was also curious to test 3dvia`s uploading process. After downloading their Shape sofware, which didn`t take more than a minute, the program prompted me with a screen to login the system. ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/11/29/testing-the-3dvia-shape-software/ A couple of months ago I wrote in a post my humble manifesto to democratization of design, claiming that we "hyperlinked" kids want to influence more and more how products are. I also wrote in another post about the changes that simple free CAD software could bring to the product ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/11/25/3dvia-3d-software-and-social-platform-is-it-going-to-democratize-design/ 8000 Balloons + skateboard pool = Air popping skate session. blow up your dreams! link video http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/10/08/blow-up-your-skatebord-pool/ ...William Kamkwamba. That's right, if the DIY community had to pick a role model for this year, it has to be William Kamkwamba from Malawi, Africa. William built his family a electricity-producing windmill. And He was 14 when he did that. Using plans he found on a library book called ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/09/27/and-the-diy-nobel-prize-goes-to/ I am experimenting with the concept of Widgets which lets you take peaces of webcode from PLACE A and embed in PLACE B on the web. A common use of it: An embed youtube video on a Blog makes use of an Widget to do it. My interest on widgets ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/09/24/lets-evo-on-widgets/ My copy of Worldchanging – A user's guide for the 21st century has just arrived! After randomly reading their Blog and being punched in the face by Al Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth I just felt I had to increase my sustainability level. This massive 600 page book is a wonderful ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/09/21/worldchanging-book-impressions/ link to this video There is something evo about record breakers and because of that I have put up this list of videos from the world's biggest skateboards. If you wanna help built the next biggest board, lets chat, but there will be no open source in here, it's going to ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/09/19/worlds-biggest-skateboard/ When a first saw this two years ago I though it was just another internet “waist my time hype”. In deed it can actually fall into this category if you aren't interested in how collective creation can be achieved. The fact is that Peter Edmunds' Swarm Sketch it's actually damn ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/09/18/collective-sketching-with-swarmsketch/ After Adobe Acrobat 3D, which makes possible the visualization of complex 3D objects in .PDF format, Adobe is experimenting with the generation and ilumination of 3D objects wright inside of Photoshop. With the help of Strata 3d(in) Plugins for Photoshop, displayed earlier this month in Photoshop World Conference in Las Vegas, ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/09/17/adobe-photoshop-is-going-3d/ I just finished out my latest project. A contribution for the DIY (Do it yorself) community. Since I love skateboards I just couldn't start anywhere else. Inspired by the amount of waste produced by the growth of consumerism in Europe, specially here in Frankfurt, seen through the weekly dispose of ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/08/17/diy-skateboard-project/ Charles Leadbeater's speech at TED about creative collaboration and user generated innovation, gives us a brilliant overview about how innovation is more and more coming from passionate users other than from closed laboratories inside of big companies R&D departments. Anyone interested in the influence of this thoughts in new kinds of ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/07/09/charles-leadbeater-on-user-innovators/ Since last year, I have been researching about nastic movements in Plants and their ability to serve as models for products that will change form in order to adapt to different situations. Some of this studies I did were showed during lectures I did in Brazil last year. While trying ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/07/06/if-charles-darwin-had-a-blog/ Blogging about is my way of saying thank you! for those who made it available. Designers and Architects, check it out! and If you like it...say HI. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/07/06/mtexture-absolute-cool-cad-texture-database/ Not so long ago I had the chance to know the work of Blu. Now I had to post this amazing painting animation he did in Berlin. Link to Video More of his work at www.blublu.org http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/06/25/blus-amazing-art/ Jacksonpollock.org, a tribute to one of the great painters of the last century and a possible way of creating graphics on demand for your next piece of wear. This one was done by Vanessa and me. Could be the graphics for my next backpack.... Hope the textile industry follows... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/06/19/jackson-pollock-and-the-textile-industry/ Think of a Notebook, the automatically grabs everything you write and draw, saves up in your computer or uploads directly to your Project Blog....ad some audio recording capabilities to it....sounds like our Eco Skateboard Project Drawings are going to get upgraded soon with tools like Live scribe. Check the Video!! Thanks ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/06/02/livescribe-the-next-design-collaboration-tool/ I am proud to show all the great collaborations to the Scan Heads Art Project since it's begining in october 2006. The project is collecting art manifestations in real time from artists all over the world using just a scanner and some creativity. Maybe we can make an exhibition some ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/05/29/scan-heads-art-project-%e2%80%93-update/ Lets Evo has been lately a great fan of "collaborative mass we are smarter than me" kinda of stuff. Here is something to inspire and to be inspired from. Visuals of The world is a real-time growing collection of user generated visual/ideas in form of a website. The programing ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/05/10/visuals-of-the-world-got-something-to-express/ I just particpated in my first Critical Mass Bike Ride. Here in Frankfurt, since last year, every first Sunday, more and more bikers meet at in front of the old opera house to reclaim their portion of the streets. The ride ended up at the Honsel Brücke where the ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/05/07/critical-mass-bike-ride/ A just posted my entry at the Sigg Design Contest. All you creative junkies should do the same. Simply download the template and let it be. The winning design will be produced and a portion of the sales (I hope not 0,00001 %) will be given to the Surfrider Foundation ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/04/30/sigg-bottle-design-contest/ Today is the last day of the most important event of the industry calendar, the HMI 2007, which happens every year in Hannover, Germany. There, companies, research intitutes and universities show their lastest developments in technology. The HfG Offenbach Design School participated once again with the supervision of Professor Dieter ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/04/20/lets-evo-at-hannover-industry-fair-2007/ Its been a long time since I started working on this but like y'all know, everything has its time to come to life. I have been working hard the last weeks to finish EVO's newest skateboard. The deck is 83cm long and is a mix of an old school skateboard and ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/04/13/evo-new-skool/ tree letters, one word, one feeling: wow Thanks for sharing Nico. Link to video http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/02/19/surf-and-run/   http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/02/18/just-for-me-productions/ This could be a tool for democratizing textile design, a computer background generator that lets you design your on patterns right inside your internet browser and save it. Awesome thing! why worry about the fashion industry when you can be it. lets Gucci http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/02/11/be-your-next-armani/ I spend the last weekend in Munich for the Volvo Sports Design Forum which the main theme was Personal Design. The forum showed different examples of how companies try to involve users in the making of there products. I was kind of disappointed that the examples showed are represent still ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/02/08/the-revolution-is-here-and-we-want-to-be-a-part-of-itright/ Some of my friends saw me wearing this tshirt back in 2002 after going through my first shoulder operation. I am officially presenting it here now, under the "far from reality" Evo brand project. The Evo Sk8 T Shirt features an always ready to use arm brace so when things go wrong ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/01/27/shoulder-problems-so-what/ Anyone interested in how knowledge (in an academic point of view) is writen, edited and published should definetly take a look at this presentation about the connexions project at the Google headquarters. Connexions, which is a web plattform (the founders call it knowledge ecosystem) that aims to revolutionize the academic ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/01/26/connexions-rip-mix-and-burn-knowledge/   It has been a while since the last time I wrote something here at Lets-evo blog. Well, I apologize for that. The year is starting write now for the blogger “me”. I have been spending a lot of time to catch up with my projects since I came back to ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2007/01/24/lets-2007/ Google made it easy for innovators like us to do some research at the patent files inside US Patent and Trademark Office. The beta version of their service still doesn't let us sort the results by date, but its already a start if don't like the complicated way inside Patent ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/12/17/life-made-easier-for-innovators-like-us/ Meet Cut and Paste. Like two MCs at a Rap battle, two designers battle live in front of the crowd drinking beer and enjoining the show. Shoud we call them DCs? click the image to check the video Via Cool hunting http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/12/12/ever-saw-a-design-battle/ It's official, Fibra Design Sustentável and Lets-Evo start a virtual development blog for the development of a sustainable skateboard. The goal of the platform is to shorten the innovation cycle through at dynamic open environment where Designers, Artists, Engineers, Producers and users interact in order to build a better product. ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/12/09/first-lets-evo-open-product-development-project/ the mother wants it to be called "love at first light" but the father would prefer something like "blackout" wanna help? leave a suggestion wanna take her home? send an email. http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/12/09/my-first-light-doesnt-have-a-name-yet-wanna-help/ I'm gonna talk about Bionics and Design at Museu da Vida next week and would like to invite all of you. I will talk specifically about 2 subjects inside the field of Bionics. First I will show the Neptuno Submarine project which was my graduation/postgraduation project at the School ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/11/27/invitation/ Two weeks ago I met Marcello Cavalcanti Aka Triboaventura.com, he is the graphic designer addicted to actionsports responsible for the adventure website Triboaventura. This video was made by him and shows some amazing shots from downhill skateboard in our homespot Vista Chinesa here in Rio. He and a friend ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/11/11/mobile-sk8-camera-cool-sk8-scenes-in-rio/ The Drillmachine Race Team DRILLASS (Reinhard Dienes und Christian Breig) from the school of arts and Design Offenbach made it to the final round of the Black & Decker Drillmachinerace (previously posted here). With the technical supervision of Professor Peter Eckhart and the support from their girlfriends Christine “tine” Matz ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/10/29/drillmachine-race-results/ Remember when mom used to say, kid! How many times do I have to tell you not to play with fire!!! yeahh I remember. And in Brazil, moms also say that kids that play with fire pee in bed much more than normal kids. I never met the mom of ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/10/23/do-you-know-how-to-build-a-rocket-bike/ With this extremely handy online .PDF generator you can make different sorts of graph-paper and print it yourself. This come specially handy when you just need one or two sheets and don't want to buy a whole block. But the best feature of this free service is that you ... http://www.lets-evo.net/blog/2006/10/21/online-graph-paper-generator/