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\ \ CBA News & Notes

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August 15, 2022

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• Programs and registration are available for events CBA is co-hosting on Open Metrology at MIT in August:\ \

https://cba.mit.edu/events/22.08.OM/

\ and the gathering of the global fab lab network in Bali in October:\ \

https://bali.fabevent.org/

\ - CBA participated in hosting Haystack Labs, a collaboration of artists and scientists developing new machines and processes for craft: \ \

<https://www.haystack-mtn.org/haystack-labs>

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- His Royal Highness The Gyalsey opened the super fab lab in Bhutan, with a focus on embodying Gross National Happiness:\
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  <https://www.facebook.com/BhutanBroadcastingService/videos/703994064157467/>

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  - We are pleased to announce that Greece's National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos" is launching a super lab with CBA, focusing on "lab fab" -- open laboratory designs:\
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    <https://www.demokritos.gr/>

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    - A CBA-led team has received an award from DARPA to develop biohydrodynamic metamaterials, aiming for an order-of-magnitude improvement in coastal protection from extreme weather events:\
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      <https://www.darpa.mil/program/reefense>

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      - CBA has received a gift to support Joseph Jacobson's work on computationally engineered protein therapeutics. His group's paper on SARS-CoV-2 detection via peptide beacons will be appearing in *Science Advances*:\
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        <https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.04.447114v1>

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        - Our voxelcopter was presented at the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems:\
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          <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9836082>

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          - CBA has received a NSF Innovation Corps award with our latest start-up, Micromize, to accelerate commercialization of direct-write fabrication of high-density electronics:\
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            <http://micromize.com/>

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            - Mr. Heat Pump (aka alum Sam Calisch) appeared on Capitol Hill:\
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              <https://twitter.com/leahstokes/status/1537189021725515782>

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              as part of advising the Administration's clean energy initiative:\
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              <https://www.rewiringamerica.org/policy/inflation-reduction-act>

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              - Patritsia Stathatou is serving as a technical expert for the UN's International Maritime Organization for the development of life-cycle assessment of alternative marine fuels:\
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                <https://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/Pages/Lifecycle-GHG---carbon-intensity-guidelines.aspx>

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                - CBA's labs were featured throughout this maker documentary:\
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                  <https://www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/league-extraordinary-makers>

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                  - *Make* covered continuing work on a fab class project, a dream incubator:\
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                    <https://makezine.com/projects/dormio-dream-incubator/>

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