* 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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Have you ever ask yourself what is the current time is it in HongKong, Vancouver? I work with people all over this planet, I’m constantly asking myself what time is its where they are?, can I phone them? ect… So I created this simple PHP script to show the current local time of all the [...]
One of my good friends are starting the NaNoWriMo today so far hes gotten 457 words in. Not being a writer or wanting to be one I am effectively disqualified from the compaction. So instead I am joining the MabeGroMo. MaBeGroMo Rules Rule 1: At some point between now and November 1, you take a [...]
Every day fiction dot com is a website that publishes a ultra short user submitted stories. Starting in September, each day a a new short story of a 1000 words or less will be released and sent to the subscribers via email, or RSS feed. Users can also read the story online at Every Day [...]
The project was to create a status web page that showed the temperature of a room. The temperature of the room changes rapidly and I wanted the changes to appear on the page without my users having to click refresh every time they wanted an updated value.The ideal solution was AJAX. I would use a [...]
A few days ago I was asked to find out where or close to where a user of ours was coming from. so i created this GEO location script Where does this IP Address come from When ever a ISP buys a block of IP address they are entered in to a database. When a [...]
A few months ago I found a Youtube video of Sachiko Kodama ferrofluid sculpture. There are more then a few of them running around on you tube just search for Ferrofluid. There is also the snake oil project that I posted earlier. They looked amazing and pretty simple too do, an electric magnet and iron [...]
This weekend we built a IPod amplifier to power a small 8ohm speaker for an art project that one of my good friends was doing. Her project involved a metal sculpture that speak a manifiesto to anyone that walked in front of it. I found the Amp Schematic in the latest MAKE magazine 09 – [...]
Create a invisible book shelf By inserting a “L” bracket behind the bottom book. Interesting if not absurdly simple.
I was browsing the Make Forums today when I ran across this post LED Shower Head/Faucet Basically the guy wants to create a small turbine inside of his shower head that would spin and create a current powerful enough to run a LED. Basically he wanted to create a DIY version of showerstar version Here’s [...]