Season's greetings friendz.

As you know the folks here at Fabricatorz have been collaborating with an international crew to develop and manufacture the Milkymist one. We've launching our new Milkymist website complete with a tutorial section. In addition to adding .jpeg support and more documentation, we've had users tell us how they used the Milkymist in a professional and educational atmosphere.

Recently architect Naihan Li has used the Milkymist to "perform" a presentation.

Free technology is beautiful. So get your own Milkymist today.

Our friend Robin Peckham announces the launch of Saamlung, a new gallery and project office for Hong Kong. The forthcoming exhibitions will represent a survey of Post-Internet art as well as curatorial exhibitions alternating between project-based solo presentations and thematic group shows.

The Saamlung model is research-driven and focuses on placing work within the exciting collections currently restructuring global visual culture to tell the story of a cosmopolitan present.

Get to Saamlung in person for the grand opening in February 2012.

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João Vasco Paiva, "Palimpseptic," 18 November - 5 December
Opening Friday 18 November, 19:00-21:00

Charles LaBelle, "Guilty," 9 December - 7 January
Opening Friday 9 December, 19:00-21:00

For more information on the projects, please visit their website: http://www.saamlung.com

Our Friend Werner Almesberger states "You haven’t really seen what the Milkymist One (M1) really can do if you haven’t used it with some MIDI controls."

Here's Werner's step-by-step instructions on how to make the Qi Hardware video synthesizer Milkymist One really pop. Get your very own Milkymist One here!

We are launching a new version of SHARISM.org and have a major new announcement slated for http://milkymist.org

Here are the details:

Date: 1 November 2011

Time: 19:00–21:00

Venue: Kennisland (on the 4th floor of Keizersgracht 174) in the center of Amsterdam next to the Westerkerk.

Directions: http://g.co/maps/d5nbg (Within walking distance of Central Station)
We will have food and beverages on hand.

We are aiming for a tight group of attendees who are open-minded and willing to share their thoughts and projects. Please RSVP by October 31 with your name and affiliation to: christopher@fabricatorz.com

The Qi Hardware project is proud to announce the Milkymist One video
synthesizer.

A total power consumption of 5 watts and latency of 60 milliseconds
are the highlights of the new high-performance video synthesizer.
Without additional computer, Milkymist One takes line-in audio to
create real-time music visualizations. Ideal for musicians and DJs,
restaurant and bar owners, people organizing parties or interested in
visual art. The included camera feeds live video into the synthesis.

Milkymist One is the second product launched by Qi Hardware after the
Ben NanoNote in March 2010. While the NanoNote was built around a
MIPS-architecture SoC, Milkymist One takes copyleft freedoms one step
further by being the first free computing architecture built around
the GPL licensed 32-bit Milkymist SoC.

Visual artists benefit by being able to program their patches,
including connectivity and control of DMX lights, lasers and MIDI
instruments, all directly and in real-time from the Milkymist One
synthesizer. Network connectivity allows the inclusion of live Twitter
feeds. Free software programmers benefit by having the first fully
programmable graphics accelerator at their disposal, opening the world
of reusable and portable Verilog to free software developers.

Milkymist SoC is a new generation of collaboratively developed IC
designs, founded in 2007 by Sebastien Bourdeauducq. It aims to be an
ARM competitor with new sharism business model, allowing for greater
development speed and better customization and optimization in
embedded products.

Milkymist One is available from Sharism Ltd. now, and sells for 499
USD plus shipping from Taipei.

[1] Milkymist One shop: https://sharism.cc/milkymist/
[2] Media Gallery: https://sharism.cc/media/

Today we're proud to say that we have really big news coming out today from our Qi Hardware project! Two completely patent-free, copyleft hardware wireless devices have been made and are available for sale now!

Please meet the Ben WPAN. Its offspring are the ATBEN, a wireless device that fits into the Ben Nanonote's microSD slot, and the ATUSB, an implementation that fits in a standard computer's USB slot. These devices can now all communicate wirelessly now!

From the Ben WPAN page:

Ben WPAN is a project to create an innovative patent-free wireless personal area network (WPAN) that is copyleft hardware. The primary protocol is 6LoWPAN, pronounced "SLoWPAN". The project lead is Werner Almesberger and it involves using the UBB, new testing software, and the Ben Nanonote to produce a next generation wireless personal area network.

We are extremely excited because this adds a crucial capability to our open hardware stack. That means that future products like the Milkymist and Nanonote lines will be able to communicate. Also, this allows for more people to join the development process, and to give us another innovative product.

For all those interested in 6LoWPAN uses, think Sensor Networks, Factory Automation, and short range connectivity.