Since we don’t seem to have any copper phone lines in the space, we haven’t got phone server there yet…
I decided to use some trickery and get a sip phone up, and the number is 1-212-931-0593.
My good friend Chris McDonald made this extra-great, 2-axis drawing machine for doing time-lapse photography.
Here’s the info from his personal website vanita phone company:
Gertrude uses two stepper motors to move an LED in a very high resolution x/y plane. The movement of the LED is photographed using exposures usually between 30 and 90 seconds. Gertrude can either be programmed to “print” a design automatically (“Christopher & Daniil”, the Hell Yup!: Scanlines shots) or controlled live via a joystick (Open&Close portrait series).
II: Christopher & Daniil not talking (pt. 2 in a series of 2) 
Hell Yup!: Scanlines 3 (Self-Portrait)
I’ve been working a lot on the RepRap code lately and I recently got it to the point where segment pausing is drastically reduced. This RepRap is driven with Arduino based electronics running a GCode interpreter firmware. Woot!
Segment Pausing Fix from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.
Modulate/Demodulate from Zach ‘Iowa’ Hoeken on Vimeo.
We’ve been having meetings getting the internal infrastructure and community up. Also, we’ve been having a pretty good time. – Link
We’re going to have a microcontroller study group meeting, open to anyone interested in microcontrollers and willing to come to a show and tell on Wednesday March 19th at 8pm on the 5th floor at 397 Bridge St. in downtown Brooklyn. We don’t have a lot of chairs, so if you have a spare chair around that you can give to the NYCResistor space, we’d love it! (and you’ll have something to sit on) Join the Microcontroller Study Group mailing list to keep up to date with all the microcontroller study group news. – Link
Great, simple, idea. An etch-a-sketch hooked up to an old mouse with a couple of stepper motors, wired through RS232 connectors, a couple of couplers (I love saying that), and a nothing-fancy Atmel Mega 32.
Imagine the possibilities this could hold? Actually being able to draw a circle on an etch-a-sketch! We should build this and marry it up with Bre’s code for printing images of of people and we can have an etch-a-sketch Portrait Maker 3000! Here’s the link to the schematic, the code and the instructions.
Great interview at Ecolect.net with the founder of SMIT – a sustainable design startup that was started by Teresita Chochran from NYU’s ITP program. SMIT, located in Brooknam, is doing some really interesting work with solar power on homes and other sustainable energy projects. They are also featured at the MOMA design show we wrote about this weekend.
There is a great show going on at the MOMA, NYC right now. It’s called Design and the Elastic Mind and features lots of amazing projects built with Processing, Flash, hardware, solar panels, etc. Here is a link to the show which will be in New York from February 24–May 12, 2008. Also a brief description of some of the projects at the show:
The exhibition will include objects, projects, and concepts offered by teams of designers, scientists, and engineers from all over the world, ranging from the nanoscale to the cosmological scale. The objects range from nanodevices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices.
Some updates to the Lilypad which are pretty useful. Speaking from experience it’s a nice add-on. Sparkfun just got these versions of Mrs. Lily in and describe them as follows: LilyPad is now even easier to use. LilyPad main boards now ship with a right angle male connector that connectors with the LilyPad USB Link.
Heres the first of many timelapses of my RepRap machine printing. I’ll be working on the quality and lighting. If anyone wants to give me a hand, let me know!
