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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Do-it-yourself"”.
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Outbound transportation collaboration- Do It Yourself (DIY)
… hand, have been forcing shippers to come up with innovative ways in tackling these two conflicting goals. One of these innovations is horizontal transportation collaboration. Horizontal transportation collaboration is the act of consolidation of shipments across several firms. This …
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Do-it-yourself devices : personal fabrication of custom electronic products
Many domains of DIY (do-it-yourself) activity, like knitting and woodworking, offer two kinds of value: the making process itself and using the resulting products in one's life. With electronics, the sophistication of modern devices makes it difficult to combine these values. Instead, when people …
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
Do it Yourself (DiY) is a participatory culture which exemplifies a particular ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go item, the DiY practitioners examined in this thesis engage with the raw …
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The Impact of using Digital Technologies at the POS on Customer Satisfaction in Do-It-Yourself Stores
Digitalization is having an enormous impact on society, the economy, and the state. The resulting digital transformations affect companies in all sectors. For this reason, it is essential that companies scrutinize previously established business models and thoroughly examine digitalization and the …
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From "Do It Yourself" To "Do It Together": A portrait of the present DIY music scene in Reykjavik
This master’s thesis examines the “do it yourself” (DIY) music scene in Reykjavík that in recent years has seen an unusual growth in activity and success. The thesis consists of a media product and a report. The media product consists of four podcast episodes that feature music and interviews with …
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Alternative Literacies, Resistance, and Spatial Representations in The Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Culture of Zine Publication in New Orleans
… by both the lack of ethnographic research on the do-it-yourself (DIY) culture of zine-making in urban studies and the growing interest in ethnographically oriented research in literacy studies, rhetoric, and linguistics this research explores the people, places, and practices behind zine …
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Adding value : an architect's retaliation against the mortgage industry and a computational investigation into do-it-yourself design-build
… the early-20th Century, the proposal selects for its client-type the foreclosed ex-homeowner and thus the constraint of a mortgage-free homeownership solution. The thesis presents a holistic view of residential architecture, taking into account the social, economic, technical, and geographical …
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A study of small business public relations behavior to ascertain a need for a do-it-yourself public relations web site
… as primary research to ascertain a need for a do-it-yourself public relations Web site. A survey questionnaire was mailed to 75 New Jersey small business owners who were randomly selected from the New Jersey Directory of Small Businesses 2005 Directory. More than half of the New Jersey small …
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Managing used oil from do-it-yourself oil changers in Massachusetts : an analysis of evaluation and learning in a policy design
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1996.
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O Uso das TIC na Educação de Irecê: Ciclo de Formação Humana, Ambientes de Tecnologia e o “Faça Você Mesmo”
Este trabalho de mestrado profissional, cujo princípio fundamenta-se em propor uma ação interventiva diretamente no campo de atuação do sujeito/pesquisador, o qual propõe possibilidades de uso das TIC como elemento fundante e estruturante da Proposta Curricular por Ciclo de Formação Humana, levando …
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Videos sobre creación, restauración y decoración de artículos para el hogar a bajo presupuesto para el lanzamiento de un canal de Youtube
Realización de videotutoriales de proyectos DIY (Do It Yourself) para el lanzamiento de “Hazlo Eco”. Un canal de Youtube enfocado en artículos del hogar, con el propósito de incentivar el ahorro y la sostenibilidad, a través de la reutilización y el reciclaje.
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WS 1207 Community Workshops
For my thesis, I have chosen to adapt the abandoned office/warehouse at 1207 North Boulevard for use as a community workshop for all of Richmond's urban neighborhoods. The community workshop's focus will be to provide open workshops, classes, a resource library and design consultation to low and …
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Experiences with the Mobile Interactive Learning Table: a custom table for education
… on tabletop displays lets children interact with digital objects in collaborative and competitive ways. Multi-touch tables are not a part of classroom instruction because of high cost and lack of meaningful applications. This thesis explores possible solutions to building hardware and software …
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Design of Inexpensive and Easy to Use DIY Internet of Things Platform
… new, inexpensive, and less complex system for a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Internet of Things (IoT) platform. The hardware aspects focus on a new chip called the ESP8266 which contains both microcontroller and WiFi connectivity capabilities in an extremely affordable package. The system uses the …
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Dead ringers recalling obsolete machines in living rooms
… as cultural disruptors; thus the project positions rearticulated obsolete machines as agents of resistance against systemised obsolescence. Their disruption conjures spectres, bringing forth unresolved histories. In addition, the artistic production resolves to validate Do-It-Yourself (DIY), …
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Rapid prototyping of rapid prototyping machines
… far too expensive for personal ownership. The do-it-yourself community has responded with a slew of home-made rapid prototyping machines, but development times are slow because of the complexity of the necessary control system and the need to design the mechanical elements from scratch. This …
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Affordable Haptic Gloves Beyond the Fingertips
With the increase in popularity of virtual reality (VR) systems, haptic devices have been garnering interest as means of augmenting users' immersion and experiences in VR. Unfortunately, most commercial gloves available on the market are targeted towards enterprise and research, and are too …
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"My Music is Words" -- The Poetics of Sun Ra
This thesis argues for a critical examination of the published writings of Le Sony'r Ra, also known as Sun Ra, a groundbreaking jazz musician and philosopher of the 20th century. Recent redistribution of Sun Ra's musical output, which includes hundreds of releases on many record labels from the …
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Single-Session Design: Design Methodology in Compressed Timeframes Derived from the Robot Rivals Television Series
The purpose of this study is to document the design process as it is adapted to compressed timeframes. I have termed this adapted design process single-session design. This study will also explore the application of this type of design methodology in industry where the research and development …
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Art and Youth Culture of the Post-Reformasi Era: Social Engagement, Alternative Expression, and the Public Sphere in Yogyakarta
… development of contemporary art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia in the post-Reformasi era. Focusing on communities who consider themselves "alternative" to the mainstream commercial art world, I examine three aspects of art in Yogyakarta including collective organization, alternative space, and the …
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