[General] Fwd: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work

[Ethan Chew]

Yo,

      Some more ears to the ground info on the DARPA grant of HackerSpaces
in Space Program.  Jerrry Isdale of Maui Makers now has $500,000.00 he will
be using to give $30,000 grants every 3 months for  "education and research
projects that enhance humanity’s survivability, on earth and in space."

                  Fare Onwards & Upwards, ML256,
                  Ethan/spacefelix


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From: Edward Wright <edward.v.wright at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:49 AM
Subject: DARPA wants to fund hackerspaces and biosphere work
To: Robin Snelson <robin.snelson at gmail.com>, Michael Clive <zeinin at gmail.com>,
Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>, Scott Nietfeld <snietfeld at gmail.com>,
Gary Hudson <gary at ssi.org>


I just got a message from Jerry Isdale, who is DARPA lead for a new
project, Hackerspaces in Space. He wants to meet us at Maker Faire.

Jerry has $500,000, which he'll be using to give $30k grants every 3 months
for "education and research projects that enhance humanity’s survivability,
on earth and in space."

The following is from the DARPA project proposal:

*There are three investment areas we want to focus on in the first decade:
education, space economy and biospheres.
**The first area is creating new generations of makers and researchers who
can research and implement the necessary technologies. This will be in the
form of an open source education program, with both self-education and
group-education components, designed to teach successive generations the
basics of Maker/ Tinker/ Hacker thinking and encourage continual innovation
and improvement of the program itself. We also want to inspire an interest
in space development through providing opportunities for applied sciences
and engineering.
**
**Second, investments in projects to create a viable Near-Earth space
economy:

*

   - Space prospecting and mining: Focusing on automated small body
   electronics: robotics, remote sensing, navigation.


   - Space power station: Providing energy to the Near-Earth space
   facilities. Solar panels, microwave power transmission


   - Space manufacturing: Once provided with power and material, it is
   possible to start manufacturing in space. To scale up production, research
   into self-replicating 3D printing machines and fully automated
   manufacturing.

*
**Finally, efforts to make it possible to live autonomously in space and
other planets of the solar system through the creation of self-encapsulated
biospheres with improvements in hydroponics and waste recycling.*
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