* I found this post in my drafts, unfinished, lost and forgotten. I decided to post it, unfinished instead of deleting it. * What a Amazing, fun, aw-inspiring event. Thank you everyone that put on this event, Emily Dallas, Jenny, all the volunteers, makers and sponsors. Thank you for putting on a fantastic event. When I heard about this [...]
I build the first version of my giant spin art back in may after reading build instructions in Make magazine Volume 25. It work okay but had a few problems. It was direct drive driven and I was worried about burning out the motor. It was scary fast and got unstable as it speeds up. Three days before Maker Faire I decide to [...]
This project has somewhat hit a road block and with 12 days left before Maker Faire I’m starting to panic. This leaves me with ~4 good working days left. Here is my current stats. Editor and Simulator At burning man 2010 I saw the Illuminatrix made by Ben Delarre. A RGB LED color grid that was programmable from [...]
Daily WTF I got these weird errors while attempting to compile a Netburner project with NbEclipse. The project included the HTTP driver as well as some custom generated pages. After bashing my head against the wall for an hour I figure out what caused these errors. Because the HTTP driver has been loaded you are [...]
More testing of the RGB LEDs. This set up uses 2pin screw terminals between each of the OctoBrite CYANEA. This set up works much better then the previous test.
This is a video of me testing 5x OctoBrite CYANEA boards connected in series to an Arduino powered by a common computer power supply. Currently I wire wrapped the boards together but I will be soldering 2pin screw terminals in to the end of each of the boards in the finale version. I am using the default test code [...]
I been travailing a lot the past few weeks making it hard to work on the mechanics of this project and with only 50 days left till Maker Faire I am running short on time. Travailing doesn’t prevent me from working on the software side of things though but it make it hard to test it. I have created this testing [...]
I wanted to create a very simple project for Maker Faire Vancouver that I could do in a weekend and something that people could take home with them as a memento. I read about the Giant spin art box in a Make magazine Volume 25. It seemed simple enough and I could spray paint the Maker Faire logo with a [...]
There are a lot of different POV projects out there that have influenced my project. n00tron 3D volumetric spherical display – interactive exhibit This is an interesting project. Instead of putting the LEDs on the outside of the ring they put them on the spokes of a bicycle rim. Then they spin the bicycle rim [...]
I spent most of the last week doing research and ordering parts samples and testing equipment, trying to get everything set up for this project. Things I have ordered. $75 USD – 100x Superflux “Piranha” RGB LEDs common-anode ($50 for the LEDs + 25 for shipping). From evilmadscience.com. Definitely not the cheapest place for RGB LEDs but they had the “Piranha” style [...]
I started searching for a LED to use in this project. Normally I would go to my local electronics supply story, but this project requires lots (~64) of LEDs and my local electronics store charges a premium for the LEDs, (@1.50 each) and I know I can get them for cheaper then that. What type [...]
I have decided to create a 64x RGB LED POV Globe for Maker faire and Buring man this year. This project is a factor more complex then any other project that I have attempted before, and quite a bit more expensive. My project will be similar to this project watch?v=4KN0xoHsUiI But my project has more LEDs, it will play almost [...]
Ray Gun Revival has been launched. We sent out 8k unsolicited email newsletter to anyone that had anything to do with the old site and only ~50 people followed the link and signed up for the newsletter. Showing me that spam just doesn’t work. Ray Gun Revival teaser trailer was released a week later then the launch but more [...]
Its been a busy month, the start of the year always is. Built my first Android APP with Phone gap. Its a happiness survey that lets users report there current happiness level once an hour. The reports go back to my website and get stored in a database. I hope to run this survey for a year and see if [...]
App inventor for android was just recently released for everyone to play with. I looked in to it hoping I could create a simple EveryDayFiction feed reader app but it doesn’t seem to support Get RSS feed just yet. So I created a simple sensor reading app that reads all the sensors on the phone [...]
I have always liked light panting and light graffiti. But there are things that I don’t like about it, it takes along time, its process incentive, you can do it live. After searching around the internet I found this video Visual Performance – Lichtfaktor vs Optix from Jens Heinen on Vimeo Live light painting! The application does not [...]
Blue robot challenge This week I have been concentrating on the Blue robot challenge from VHS part of their June robot month. The blue robot challenge is to build a simple robot from their blue robot kits that can sense and capture various IR beacons scattered around the room. The beacons have three states, Red, Blue, Neutral. when [...]
Interesting Friday, I’m going to try to make a new post once a week on Friday of all the interesting things that I have found over the week. People to follow, interesting projects, local events, ect. The Vancouver sun wrote an artical about Every Day Fiction where we talk about our newest upcoming project EveryDayNovels.com to be launched sometime in fall of 2010. [...]
When I create a PHP script that has to send an email to a user I tend to use a template file for the body of the email. I load the template file in to the script then search and replace the variables that I need to before sending it to the user. I use [...]
I’m about to start a new development project with a new group and we needed some sort of bug tracking system to coordinate all our efforts. Previously I have used www.mantisbt.org/ but its messy and I don’t like the layout at all. Requirements Installs on a LAMP system (MySQL, PHP, ect..) – Easy to install, I am lazy and I want to [...]