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Posted in Projects on Feb 2nd, 2010
Our dear friend, Vern, of Nuts & Volts fame (among other things) was asked to contribute a chapter to a book about the “Parallax Propeller Multicontroller.” He came up with the idea of controlling air vents.with servos and a Propeller Chip, so that each room in a house could have it’s own ideal temperature.
If [...]
Posted in Projects on Oct 28th, 2009
Unfocused Brain & I wrote an article/side bar for Nuts & Volts magazine about a magnet detector we created. We modified “Das Blinkenboard” (a previous project of Unfocused brain & friends) by adding a few components, and then we were able to play with magnetic fields. But the more exciting thing is [...]
Posted in Projects on Feb 25th, 2009
I got invited to participate in the Dallas Museum of Science’s Tech Week. We were part of the weekend part of the festivities. So, we packed up, designed some new jousters (the pdfs are at the bottom of the page) and headed for Dallas.
It was really neat to get to hang out at [...]
Posted in Projects on Feb 14th, 2009
J. & I have been working hard on a fabulous new project called the “Magic Screen Machine.” By using gears, stepper motors, a micro-controller and and two ULN2803’s we’ve re-created part of Jeff Epler’s Etch CNC project.
This is a multi-step process and we actually made it through the first stage successfully.
It all started off [...]
I was recently compelled to add blinking LEDs to stone. I had a limestone rock that I carved and it really needed some eyes. I liked how light shines through marbles and wanted a similar effect. But once they marbles are set into stone, the marbles become less shiny. So how can I light them? [...]
I needed a cool flashing LED effect (don’t we all?). J made a generic LED sequencing board and I made it groovy. By using a few materials (hot glue, a jar, a bowl, cardboard, more hot glue…) that I had laying about, I was able to create a groovy glue based ambient lighting jar. [...]
Posted in Projects on Oct 18th, 2008
Update: I won an “Editor’s Choice Ribbon” at Maker Faire!!!!
You can read what the editor thought here. Thanks Patti (the awarding editor) & Make Magazine. I’d also like to thank the Academy… er, the Robot Group for their awesome feedback and support and extra RC cars… I also met tons of really [...]
Posted in Projects on Sep 26th, 2008
I’m working on a project that combines exotic worlds of paper craft, micro RC cars, and Renaissance festivals. I’ve been building little paper craft models and sticking them onto mini RC cars and then abusing them by smashing them into each other.
This project should grow in scope as I add new models to throw [...]
Recently, I’ve been converting my t-shirt designs from old-school silkscreen color separations into vector art. Once the image has been converted, I can do almost anything with it.
Because of this hard work, YOU can now buy one of my original t-shirt designs . Woo-hoo!
After much research, I decided to use [...]
I decided to assess the projects I mentioned from my post in April 3, 2007… to see how much art-related stuff I got done last year.
Canceled Projects:
[Worry Bugs] Didn’t like the results (sculpture).
[Compromise tryptich] Canceled by patron (sculpture).
[Muscle Body #2] Lost interest (print).
Still In Progress:
[Venus 2005] May get finished in 2008 (painting).
[Consequences] Still need to [...]