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http://lemelson.hampshire.edu
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May 18th, 2011 by rlflmJanterm Class Featured on Local News
January 27th, 2011 by rlflmHCLC’s Janterm class, Urban Eco-Design: Solar Charging Station Design/Build for Campus has been attracting some attention from local media outlets this week. Local NPR affiliate WFCR in Amherst did a short report on the class, and there is a feature article in today’s Daily Hampshire Gazette. This publicity is helping to achieve one of the goals of the class, which is to increase public awareness of solar power generation, how it works, and how it can be applied.
Listen to the NPR report here.
Read the Gazette article here.
Charging Ahead, Hampshire Style
January 24th, 2011 by rlflm
Beth Ferguson 96F returned to campus to co-teach a January term course with applied design professor Donna Cohn in the Hampshire College Lemelson Center. The 16 students who enrolled in their Urban Eco-Design class created a solar charging station for the campus.
Complete with pop-out seating and table space, the charger provides a handy outdoor spot to recharge laptops and other portable devices, including power for speakers for outdoor concerts. On wheels, it can move where needed, although it will most often be near the community garden. Built on a 4-foot by 8-foot boat trailer, the portable charger has many green features, such as recycled materials and a set of vertical hanging pockets for growing plants.
The designers also took care to be true to their school: the solar panels are arranged in the H of the Hampshire logo, and glow at night.
Ferguson’s company, Sol Design Lab, is based in Texas. A colleague from that state, industrial designer Dallas Swindle, provided assistance in the Hampshire course. A renewable-energy electronics company, Outback Power, donated the inverter for the charging station.
A presentation of the newly-completed station will take place at the Lemelson Center on Tuesday, January 25th at 1pm. This presentation is free and open to the public.
Getting off the Ground: Celebrating the Spirit of Enterprise at Hampshire
November 3rd, 2010 by rlflm
A large number of Hampshire students go on to start businesses and organizations after graduation. To celebrate this spirit of enterprise, the Hampshire College Lemelson Center is hosting a showcase of entrepreneurial students and alums and the organizations they founded. Ranging from custom bicycle design to eco-friendly cleaning, health care centers to urban artist collectives, Hampshire students and alums really can do it all! The show runs until November 9th in the main gallery.
Reminder: Blacksmithing Meet Tomorrow, 10/24, 10-4
October 23rd, 2010 by rlflmJoin us for breakfast, lunch, and smithing! See what other smiths have been up to, display your own work, and visit with our guest presenter, Erica Moody of Magma Metalworks. We hope to see you there!
For directions or more information, please contact Roxy.
Halloweek at HCLC!!
October 21st, 2010 by rlflmNeed help with your Halloween costume?
The Lemelson Center will be offering workshops in sewing, plastics, fake blood and scars, electronics (soldering/LEDs), cardboard armor and other costume elements in a series of workshops next week. Our schedule of workshops is:
Monday, October 25th
6pm Sewing Tutorial/Open Sew – Get trained on the sewing machines, bring your costume fabric and get some assistance with sewing techniques.*
Tuesday, October 26th
5pm Sewing Tutorial/Open Sew – Training and sewing assistance*
6pm Plastics Workshop – Bend and shape plastic to make part of your costume!
Open shop until 11:30pm
Wednesday, October 27th
3pm Armor and Beyond – Student Gladiators will help you use cardboard, duct tape and anything else you bring to construct an original look (cardboard/duct tape provided)
5pm Fake Blood and Scar Workshop – Alum Chris Sommer will show you how to add some gore to your look.
6pm Soldering and adding LEDs your costume with the help of Zap!, the student electronics group
Open shop until 11:30pm
Thursday, October 27th
5pm Sewing Tutorial/Open Sew*
6pm Halloweek Design Conspiracy – Having trouble pulling your costume together? Bring it to the Design Conspiracy and get some pizza and advice.
7pm Soldering/LEDs with Zap!
Open shop until 11:30pm
We hope to see you in the shop!!
* Cutting and sewing tools will be provided, but you must bring your own fabric.
Getting off the Ground: Celebrating Enterprise at Hampshire College
October 19th, 2010 by rlflmTo All Entrepreneurial Hampshire College Alumni:
The Hampshire College Lemelson Center is compiling a gallery show for the first week in November highlighting entrepreneurial student and alumni ventures and initiatives.
Can you help us???
We’re asking all Hampshire students and alumni who have started their own business or organization, or who recognize an entrepreneurial component in their work, to send us information about your venture that we can display in the gallery. This could include brochures, a poster, business cards, product samples – anything you feel represents your work. We’ll make sure to return any materials not intended to be taken.
If you’d like to take part, but just don’t have the time to put something together, please let us know and we can create a display using images from your website – we just want to make sure that’s okay with you.
And If you’re interested in being more involved with promoting entrepreneurship at Hampshire, please let us know – we want to hear your voice!
Thanks so much from all of us at HCLC!
Alumni Update: Matt Lorenz and his Wunderkammer
October 8th, 2010 by rlflmThe Eleventh Annual Blacksmithing Meet, Sunday October 24th 10-4
October 4th, 2010 by rlflmThe 11th Annual Blacksmithing Meet, hosted by the Blacksmith Guild student group, will be held at the Hampshire College Lemelson Center on Sunday, October 24th, 2010, 10am-4pm. Enjoy demonstrations, meet other area blacksmiths including Hampshire alum Erica Moody 90F of Magma Metalworks, and view Hampshire student, alumni and local artisan work. Attendance and lunch are free!
Students Teach 3D Design EPEC Class
September 29th, 2010 by rlflmDivision III students Prateek Rajbhandari and Jake Horsey will be giving an introduction to Solidworks, a software for 3D solid modeling for mechanical applications as an EPEC course this semester. Students will learn to design 3 dimensional parts for the purpose of product design, prototyping, and CNC machining. The class will be using SolidProfessor, the official tutorial supported by the Solidworks Corporation, as a curriculum model and interactive teaching tool. For more information about class times and curriculum, visit the course page on Hampedia.