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**CBA News & Notes**

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December 17, 2016

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- The annual *How To Make (almost) Anything* open house will be held from 5:00-6:30 on Tuesday December 20th on the sixth floor of MIT's building E14:\
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  [http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.16\](http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/863.16)

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  Come see what the expanded class has accomplished.\
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  - CBA's research with NASA on morphing wings:\
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    <http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/soro.2016.0032>\

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    was featured on MIT's home page:\
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    <http://spotlight.mit.edu/sites/default/files/spotlight/2016/1478149501440031421.jpg>\

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    and in the global press:\
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    <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3902714/The-shape-changing-wing-revolutionise-air-travel-Twisting-design-based-fish-scales-slash-fuel-consumption.html>\

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    - A joint CBA-NASA team did a first round of zero-g flights in November to test robotic locomotion in cellular structures:\
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      <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvPabpRkSKI>\

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      A second round of flights will follow in March.\
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      - CBA patents have issued on hierarchical digital materials:\
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        <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=9506485.PN.&OS=PN/9506485&RS=PN/9506485>\

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        and microfluidic logic:\
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        <http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=9404835.PN.&OS=PN/9404835&RS=PN/9404835>\

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        - CBA has received an award from the Army Research Office for "Assembling Assemblers with Functional Digital Materials," based on earlier work on discrete electronic assembly:\
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          <http://proceedings.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2558698>\

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          - We're delighted to welcome GSK moving up to become a Principal sponsor of CBA, with a focus on label-free molecular detection:\
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            <http://www.gsk.com>\

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            - A CBA team led by Andreas Mershin had the fastest growing entry in the International Evolthon genome evolution challenge:\
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              <http://www.weizmann.ac.il/conferences/GE2016/files/Evolthon_Challenge.pdf>\

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              - Neil Gershenfeld spoke about breaking down the boundary between the digital and physical worlds at the commemoration of the fall of the Berlin Wall:\
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                <http://falling-walls.com/videos/Neil-Gershenfeld-10666>\

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                judged the R.O.M.E. Prize:\
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                <http://www.makerfairerome.eu/en/the-rome-prize>\

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                and joined a reunion of the Minority Report think-tank:\
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                <https://asunow.asu.edu/20161115-creativity-minority-report-futurists-regroup-asu-2-days-events>

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                - Congratulations to alum Manu Prakash on being selected as a MacArthur Fellow:\
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                  <http://news.stanford.edu/2016/09/21/stanford-bioengineer-manu-prakash-wins-prestigious-macarthur-grant>\

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                  and to alum Yael Maguire, head of Facebook's Connectivity Lab, on the first flight of their giant drone for global Internet connectivity:\
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                  <https://www.wired.com/2016/01/facebook-zuckerberg-internet-org>\

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                  - Jesse Dylan made a video about fab labs:\
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                    <https://www.facebook.com/Wondros/videos/vb.147377535322223/1228654377194528/?type=2&theater>

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                    that was premiered at FAB12; here are the Symposium videos from that event:\
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                    <https://vimeo.com/album/4309718>\

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                    Fab lab stories were covered by PRI:\
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                    <http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-08-25/indias-kerala-embraces-fab-labs-and-internet-things-future>\

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                    WGBH:\
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                    <http://news.wgbh.org/2016/08/17/innovation/how-bostons-fab-lab-changing-tech-world>\

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                    and the New York Times:\
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                    <http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/business/smallbusiness/veterans-san-diego-start-ups-entrepreneurs.html>

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                    GE and the Fab Foundation are deploying CBA's mobile fab lab in schools:\
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                    <https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/10/06/bringing-laser-cutters-printers-boston-high-schools/doKiITKwxRVMiV9KZTQBOM/story.html>\

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                    An unusual collaboration launched a fab lab with the San Francisco 49ers:\
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                    <http://www.49ers.com/news/article-2/49ers-Foundation-and-Chevron-to-Launch-STEM-Fab-Lab-at-Santa-Clara-High-School/b2f9ec8d-7230-4936-9e6f-60dbebbb2e1c>\

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                    - Happy holidays and best wishes for the new year from all of us at CBA.\

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