This summer I recorded a course for lynda.com’s [amazing] online video training library. Lynda has been a great learning tool for myself and many other creative folks I know. I’d definitely recommend checking out their site if you’re doing anything with digital media. A little about the course:

Game Character Creation in Maya is a thorough overview of techniques for creating characters for video games or real-time rendered applications. Chris Reilly’s course covers low-poly modeling, texturing and animation, using 3D model and texture assets created in Maya and Adobe Photoshop. The course also includes an overview of Unity 3, including importing characters and making interactive animations with the Script Editor. Exercise files accompany the course.

Maker Faire NYC 2011

Get up close and personal with a DIYLILCNC in action!   Chris Reilly and Taylor Hokanson will be running demos, answering questions, and having fun at Maker Faire NYC 2011.

Saturday, Sept 17 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.
Sunday, Sept 18 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Organized by the staff of Make magazine, makezine.com and craftzine.com, Maker Faire is a newfangled fair that brings together science, art, craft and engineering plus music in a fun, energized, and exciting public forum.

The aim is to inspire people of all ages to roll up their sleeves and become makers. This family-friendly event showcases the amazing work of all kinds of makers – anyone who is embracing the DIY spirit and wants to share their accomplishments with an appreciative audience.

Open Hardware Summit 2011

New York Hall of Science
47-01 111th Street
Queens, NY 11368

The next Open Hardware Summit will be held on September 15th, 2011.

Taylor Hokanson and Chris Reilly will host a breakout session covering open-source DIY CNC technology.

The Open Hardware Summit is the world’s first comprehensive conference on open  hardware. The Open Hardware Summit is a venue to discuss and draw attention to the rapidly growing open source hardware movement. Speakers at the Summit include world renowned leaders from industry, academia and the DIY community. The summit focuses on hardware as a system through a series of discussions and panels on BUSINESS, LAW, MANUFACTURING, SCALING, DESIGN and EDUCATION. The one-day Summit seeks to empower companies, large and small, to produce electronic objects in an open source fashion.

SIGGRAPH Studio 2011

Get your hands on a real, live working DIYLILCNC! All week at the SIGGRAPH Studio 2011, Taylor Hokanson will be running demos, answering questions, and having fun.

Sunday, August 7: noon – 5:30 pm
Monday, August 8: 9 – 5:30 pm, 9 – 11 pm
Tuesday, August 9: 9 am – 5:30 pm
Wednesday, August 10: 9 am – 5:30 pm
Thursday, August 11: 9 am – 1 pm

The Studio is the place for making and creating at SIGGRAPH 2011. Roll your sleeves up and get hands on in this three-ring circus of technological wonders. It is an amazing space where experts, attendees, and the latest technologies are brought together to create new works, experiment, and collaborate. Leave your old work behind, come to The Studio, and create something new.

In the Studio, you’ll find technologies specifically set up for you to use and create with. Our experts make special arrangements with research labs, developers, universities, and vendors to provide access to technologies that are not easily accessible elsewhere. Attendees can experiment and create new works with large-format printing, motion capture, interactive music, the latest software suites, high-end computing workstations, laser scanning, and many new additions to The Studio.

More than ever before, the Studio is for people of all ages, interests, and disciplines who want to create new works. You’ll see kids making their own creations, live interactive music on our stage, in-depth workshops in our classroom, attendees working with Emerging Technologies presenters and Art Gallery artists, and wearable technologies on attendees. It’s a fun space, a creative space, a learning space, a discovery space, a space for you.

For more info or to register visit http://www.siggraph.org/s2011/

Berliner Liste 2011

SEP 8 – SEP 11, 2011
Opening: SEP 7, 2011, 6pm to 11pm

Köpenicker Straße 70 10179 Berlin-Mitte (Germany)

BERLINER LISTE covers a broad spectrum ranging from contemporary sculpture, painting, drawing to installation, video art, performance and photography.

BERLINER LISTE – fair for contemporary art and photography – is an active and alternative platform for contemporary art. Since BERLINER LISTE was established in 2004, the fair became Berlin’s largest art fair and a cultural and social highlight.
In addition to both established and new galleries from Germany and abroad, project stands have also been offered directly to international artists. Therefore it is possible to follow the latest developments in art in their unfiltered form. Exhibitors out of 24 countries applied for this year’s BERLINER LISTE: Austria, Belgium, People’s Republic of China, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America.

DIYLILCNC 2.0 - Open-source plans for a low-cost CNC mill.

Taylor Hokanson and I are planning to release a second-generation design for our open source DIY CNC mill, the DIYLILCNC.  We’re raising funds through Kickstarter, an awesome distributed fundraising platform.  Folks who contribute can vote on design upgrades they’d like to see, or even have a part named after them!

DIYLILCNC v2.0 – Kickstarter Campaign 2011

Score for a Robot will be on display at Gallery Uno Chicago.

Art Exhibition Link presents Score for a Robot, new work by Chris Reilly at Gallery Uno Chicago. Opening reception on Friday, June 10 6-8pm.

Yobot: Arduino Yogurt Maker in Make Magazine Vol 25

Here’s a link to a tutorial I wrote for Make Magazine Vol. 25, Arduino Revolution, detailing how to make a crock-pot-controlling thermostat for home yogurt fermentation using an Arduino microcontroller.

Yobot: Arduino Yogurt Maker

Sculptures by Chris Reilly at Berliner Liste 2010.

Artexhibitionlink/Gallery UNO is presenting the artists Yvette Kaiser Smith (USA), Chris Reilly (USA) and Uisuk Byeon(Korea).

The 7th edition of BERLINER LISTE will take place from October 7 to 10, 2010. More than 100 international galleries, projects and artists will show their most innovative and sophisticated works.

The repertoire ranges from painting, drawings, sculpture, photography, installation to performance and video art. 12.000 collectors, curators and art lovers from all over the world will visiting the BERLINER LISTE. More than 450 journalists correspond in international newspapers, magazins, radio and TV.

DIYLILCNC Demo & Lecture @ Dorkbot Chicago

Join Chris Reilly and Taylor Hokanson for a red-hot demo and short lecture on the DIYLILCNC project at Dorkbot Chicago. We’ll be covering the history and evolution of the DIYLILCNC project, some general background of CNC technology, some of the shortcomings of the present state of CNC and how those are addressed by open-source hardware projects like the DIYLILCNC. We’ll also go over the specs of the DIYLILCNC, giving details about how it is built and its functions.

Dorkbot Chicago @ Enemy Sound
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave,
Chicago, IL, 60622
August 26, 2010 7-8:00 pm
FREE

Dorkbot: People doing strange things with electricity. The main goals of Dorkbot are: to create an informal, friendly environment in which people can talk about the work they’re doing and to foster discussion about that work; to help bring together people from different backgrounds who are interested in similar things; to give us all an opportunity to see the strange things our neighbors are doing with electricity. Dorkbot isn’t really a forum for formal artist talks or lectures, but rather a chance for diverse people to have friendly conversations about interesting ideas.