Vulpine Designs Unlimited has been let loose.

Freedom Of Form: a product of community spirit

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The Dorset Constructorium

WHY

Why accept what you're given when you know how to make it better?

How can we learn how to be more than the sum of our parts? (apologies if any of this sounds corporate, blame my weekend job)

What do hackers love to do?

Why 'hack'? (computer security cracking should be referred to separately to avoid confusion)

Why are we all here this weekend?

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So what's all this Freedom Of Form stuff about, then?

It means different things for different people in different contexts

Here it means we are free to choose our form of interaction with technology and with day-to-day things, with each other and even ourselves.

Not content to be dictated to by manufacturers and designers, we will choose our own path.

This is part of why Vulpine Designs is Unlimited. I won't let it limit itself or anybody.

The Dorset Constructorium is a place to focus on this need to develop Freedom Of Form.

Eh?

More choice and lots of fun making and breaking things with a sort of philosophical ideal and an umbrella company to take the strain behind it.

Lots of tea and cool projects.

A chance to shape the future in some small way.

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Dorset has a legacy of hacking and making

Razer from Robot Wars (Image CC BY SA Michael Walton (photographer), Ian Lewis and Simon Scott (roboteers). Not affiliated with Vulpine Designs Unlimited. Existed way before we did).

The Raspberry Tank

AUCB's workshop

The Dorset Scrapstore(image from dorsetscrapstore.org.uk - Not affiliated with Vulpine Designs Unlimited or at least not yet).

Bike trailer

This Lego laptop

(feel free to throw in some more suggestions)

Now we have the chance to do much more. Together.

This is a motley band of you coming together to do things an establishment won't.

Combining

Making

Doing

Innovating

Sciencing

Art...ing

Crafting

You don't need college or a degree to do this stuff.

DIY & Science DJs

Patchwork of contributions

Looks good on a CV (creativity, motivation, initiative)

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Open Sourcery

Open Source Software

Open Source Hardware

Open Source Wetware

Open Licensing

Be Open Sourcerers!

Use as many of these as you can.

Kopimi...

No Presence Required...

Project Padlockigami (Folding@Home, Foldit)

Other hackerspaces

Knowledge contributions, wikis

Freedom Of Form Forum

International collaboration

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Team 217222

Independence

Through learning together you can pick up new skills that can be applied anywhere.

Crafts,
Knitting,
Sewing machine, intentions

From ninjas

To nerds

And how about changing the future?

Folding proteins

Vulpine Sea Power

Recycling

Energy saving

Exploring, learning, doing and makingNew things, old things, fixing and breakingNot being afraid to void warrantyTo open, to tweak, to improve qualityPeople with skills, people curiousPeople who with proprietary closed source are furiousFor fun, for invention, for the first everFor the community and the world whatever the weatherDismantle, rebuild, design and useHackers and makers can win what consumers loseSo before you buy replacements from an emporiumYoull remember what you learnt at theDorset Constructorium!

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