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May 31, 2007
Stone sculptures
Kam writes -
These boulders are Hawaiian blue rock, a very dense & heavy stone. I find them in a small bay of my friends beach property. They have been tumbling around in the ocean for eons, tossed against each other by huge waves, smoothing & rounding them. I choose particular ones for their asthetic shape & lift them out with a crane. Most of them weigh several hundred pounds.cre.ations.net - Creation: Stone Sculpture - Link.I bring them home & live with them for a few weeks looking @ patterns, texture & color changes on the surface. The stone seems to show me the starting lines & then the design progresses from there.
I take chalk & sketch on some rough lines & if I need to remove a lot of material, I'll cut some grooves with a diamond bladed skill saw & bust out chunks with a small sledge & chisel. I use a diamond encrusted bronze wheel on a vertical grinder to rough out the basic design, then polish it with progressively finer grit wheels. I always leave some outer natural surface to give contrast to the design.
I like to carve a bowl in the top of most of my pieces to catch water. It represents an offering dish to float flowers (or let the birds drink)
The first boulder shown is called "Whale" topping the scales @ 350 pounds.
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May 31, 2007 03:00 AM
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CMUcam3 - open source programmable embedded color vision platform
CMUcam3 is an open source programmable embedded color vision platform, you can get a CMUcam is a few places (listed on the site)... Including Seattle robotics...
The goal of the CMUcam project is to provide simple vision capabilities to small embedded systems in the form of an intelligent sensor. The CMUcam3 extends upon this idea by providing a flexible and easy to use open source development environment that complements a low cost hardware platform. The CMUcam3 is an ARM7TDMI based fully programmable embedded computer vision sensor. The main processor is the NXP LPC2106 connected to an Omnivision CMOS camera sensor module. Custom C code can be developed for the CMUcam3 using a port of the GNU toolchain along with a set of open source libraries and example programs. Executables can be flashed onto the board using the serial port with no external downloading hardware required.
Software - CMUcam - Trac - [via] Link & more.
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May 31, 2007 02:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Open source hardware |
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Arduino variant - Bare-Bones Board
This Arduino variant (Bare-Bones Board) looks great!
Modern Device Company is a modest website to make available some of the circuit boards and electronic projects that Paul Badger has designed for use in his physical computing classes. Right now the site is focused on a variation of the Arduino, called the Bare-Bones Board. More custom sensors, and boards will be added soon.Modern Device Company - Link.Arduino is an open-source microcontroller hardware, and software, environment, closely related to the Wiring and Processing open-source initiatives. The microcontroller uses an Atmel Atmega168 chip programmed with a bootloader, so no programming hardware is required.
Arduino is programmed in the "C" programming language, with an integrated development environment (IDE) engineered for beginning programmers. The language includes support for desirable microcontroller features such as 32 bit and floating point math, many standard C libraries. Projects that outgrow the Arduino's capabilities can easily be ported to the Wiring Board, which is based on the Atmega128 chip.
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May 31, 2007 01:00 AM
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HOW TO - Make Tetris ice cubes & shelves
Here are a couple Tetris themed projects that just popped up in the MAKE instructables group --
How to make Tetris ice cubes! - Link.
Build a Tetris DVD (or book) shelf - Link.
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May 31, 2007 12:00 AM
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May 30, 2007
HOW TO - Make carbonated fruit
Tim and gang from Know How! are back with a tasty summer project...
Using dry ice, cut up fruit and a strong plastic bottle you can make carbonated fruit. It's refreshing, bubbly, and totally unique.Many thanks to Instructables user Argon for coming up with this idea and giving me necessary tips on how to make it.
**Warning, dry ice is cold to the touch and can hurt you if used inappropriately. Please exercise caution when working with it, wear proper safety protection, and use it responsibly.** Now on Know How! Click on the steps above for more details.
instructables : How to Make Carbonated Fruit - Link.
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May 30, 2007 01:00 PM
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HOW TO - Quick and easy electronic time lapse
Here's Trebuchet03's time lapse conversion hack on a cheap point and shoot camera (without a time lapse feature) - Link.
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May 30, 2007 11:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Imaging |
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$35 AVR Oscilloscope clock kit
This is fantastic looking kit, turn an oscilloscope into a clock!
Is your X-Y capable analog oscilloscope underutilized? Make it show the current time! Need a clock for your GPS receiver? Use your scope! This AVR Oscilloscope clock is available as a kit, using all through-hole components. The kit included ALL components necessary to assemble the board shown below, including a preprogrammed ATmega168 microcontroller. It does not include an oscilloscope. It also includes connectors for the Power and RS-232 headers on the board. The user can use these connectors to build the power and serial communication cables.AVR Oscilloscope Clock - [via] Link.
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Oscilloscope clock - Link.
Oscilloscope Oscilloscope Oscilloscopes!:
- Vector-based Pong on an Oscilloscope - Link.
- Oscilloscope alarm clock project... - Link.
- PIC Based Oscilloscope with LCD - Link.
- Low cost oscilloscope - Link.
- HOW TO - Using an oscilloscope - Link.
- Using an Oscilloscope - Link.
- HOW TO - Making a hard drive laser oscilloscope - Link.
- Single-digit Nixie, Oscilloscope CRT a Weston ... - Link.
- ScopeOnPC - Turn your PC into a an oscilloscope - Link.
- What's the cheapest way to get an oscilloscope? - Link.
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May 30, 2007 09:00 AM
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The Desktop Factory - Fab@Home
Pop Sci on the Fab@Home project -
Roboticist Hod Lipson wants you to stop shopping and use his portable 3-D printer to make your own stuff. As a child, Hod Lipson lost Lego pieces constantly. Now the 39-year-old director of Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab can build replacement parts on the spot. Completed last year, Lipson's fabrication machine, called a "fabber," can print thousands of three-dimensional objects, everything from toy parts to artificial muscles, using dozens of materials, including PlayDoh, peanut butter and silicone, by following simple directions sent to it by a PC. About the size of a microwave, the fabber costs $2,300 to assemble--roughly one tenth the cost of commercial 3-D printers. Lipson and his graduate student Evan Malone recently launched a Web site called Fab@Home (fabathome.org) to teach people how to build their own fabbers and encourage them to share their blueprints online.The Desktop Factory - Popular Science - Link.
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May 30, 2007 08:00 AM
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Make a wire storage tower
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories shows you how to make a wire storage tower -
If you accumulate project material like we do, you've probably got a heap of half-empty wire spools from junk shops taking up space in a box or on a desk. We've got a simple solution for you: a small flat piece of metal or wood, some tape, some felt feet, and a rod.Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories - Make a Wire Storage Tower - Link.
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May 30, 2007 05:00 AM
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HOW TO - Large format printing
GeekDad has a round up of ways (and how) to do large format printing for things like bedroom walls Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
Print the Universe. MAKE 03 - page 127. Make gigantic posters with a free web service. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 03 @ the Maker store.
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May 30, 2007 12:00 AM
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May 29, 2007
DIY AVR based MP3 player
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Bozai writes -
This is one of my DIY works. It uses a mp3/wma/wav/mid decode chip VS1003, ATmega8L and SD card. It supports various bitrate music file. Supports both FAT16 and FAT32. For the reason of space, resource the screen was not added. But a couple of LED were used to indicate the state.:: AVR Freaks - (free reg' required) Link.
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May 29, 2007 03:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Mineral oil submerged computer
Puget Custom Computers made a nice mineral oil submerged computer -
Over the years, we have seen many projects on the web that cooled a computer using common vegetable oil, including a very popular video by Tom's Hardware. We felt that by building a computer in an aquarium using clear mineral oil, that we would be able to accomplish a much more attractive results!Mineral Oil Submerged Computer - [via] Link.
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May 29, 2007 11:00 AM
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DIY Human powered Hydrofoil - The "Hydrothopter"
Tim shows you how to make a human powered hydrofoil made from wood, in this video you can see the maiden voyage - Link.
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May 29, 2007 09:00 AM
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DIY - improving fuel efficiency
Robert Kwiatkowski designs and deploys data logging systems for Condition Based Maintenance on aircraft carriers. To improve the fuel efficiency of his thirsty truck, he's doing data logging via the OBDII port using this simple interface, a laptop computer and Windmill, a data acquisition application... Link.
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May 29, 2007 07:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Green, Transportation |
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New stuff @ Spark Fun Electronics
Spark Fun has a few new items of interest, if you dig on electronics...
Color 24-Bit LCD 4.3" PSP 480x272. Looks like some SFE fans found this device before we could even get it noted on the home page! This is an original 24-bit color LCD from Sharp. Does it look familiar? It's the same LCD that goes into the PlayStation Portable (PSP)! So snazzy - we can't wait to get one lit up. We've also got the connector available for it - Link.
Ambient Light Sensor - TEMT6000. Here's a neat little component. This is the TEMT6000 ambient light sensor. This sensor detects light levels in the surrounding environment. A simple but effective way to interact with your next project - Link.
Quad-band Cellular 9" Antenna SMA. This is a giant 9" quad band cellular antenna. Great for those AVL applications that need good reception in poor cell areas - Link.
Spark Fun Electronics - Link.
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May 29, 2007 06:00 AM
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HOW TO - Install a remote control/tracking system (MFC) in your ride
Sam shows you how to install a remote control/tracking system (MFC) in your ride, he writes -
...the Subaru WRX we showed at the Maker Faire features a remote tracking and control system. With this system you can:
- Log in from anywhere in the world and see where the car is
- See engine status, RPMs, speed, GPS info, and a bunch of other stats
- See history of location and statistics
- Unlock or lock the doors
- Start or stop the engine
- Cut power to the fuel pump
- Control Windows, etc.
It doesn't take much imagination to figure out the possibilities. Imagine a script that checks for upcoming appointments in your computer's calendar. 15 minutes before you leave for the appointment, your script logs in, finds your car's location and pulls the weather for the area. If the temperature is below 40 degrees, the script will send the commands to start your car. You get in 15 minutes later and everything is warm and toasty!DIY:happy ยป How to Install a Remote Control/Tracking System (MFC) in Your Ride -Link.
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May 29, 2007 04:00 AM
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May 28, 2007
Seattle Power Tool Drag Race Workshops at the Hazard Factory.
Have you always wanted to get into power tool drag racing, but just never had the... um... tools? Rusty and the gang are inviting folks over to the Hazard Factory on Saturdays to use the shop and make some racers. Bring what you've got or stop by goodwill for some power tools and then go over there and hack it all up into a drag racer!
Learn more about the Seattle Powertool Drag Races and rsvp to work at the workshop over at Hazard Factory. - Link
Jeremy has made up an instructable to get you on your way with some roller blades and a circular saw. - Link
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May 28, 2007 03:06 PM
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May 18, 2007
Nerf sniper rifle
Toomnybros writes -
Nerf gun made from schedule 40 pvc pipe. Extremely accurate and consistent if constructed properly. I was able to hit a 2x2 foot target from about 60 yards away precisely. Any further and the shot became too much of a gamble, and due the long reload process it is not advised. The gun Somewhat cumbersome so make sure you have a side arm for closer range.
instructables : Nerf Sniper Rifle - Link.
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May 18, 2007 07:09 AM
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May 16, 2007
How to make potato chip bag pencil cases
Eva sent in a photo set on how to make pencil cases from potato chip bags - Link.
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May 16, 2007 10:00 AM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Maker Faire |
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Vents for project cases
Vanya writes -
For most of the electronics projects I build for fun (power supplies, function generators, code keyers, 555 timer circuits, etc.), I usually just head to the local Radio Shack and buy one of their cheap plastic project cases. Unfortunately, these cases don't have vents or fan ports, a desirable feature to have with circuits that dissipate a lot of heat, so I have to "drill my own". I've since developed a quick and accurate technique to create these vents that others might find useful.
Make Your Own Vents In Electronic Project Cases - The Lyzrd's Stomp - Link.
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May 16, 2007 08:00 AM
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