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people doing strange things with electricity
The first three meetings were great!
Fourth Meeting
Time: 7:00pm Wednesday Feb 13th, 2008 (come at 6:00 for possible soup or pizza, and early chatting)
Place: Rich Gibson's house: 241 Florence Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Events:
Steve Chalem has an arduino and motor controllers, other things are happening!
Third Meeting
Time: 7:00pm Wednesday February 6th, 2008 (come at 6:00 for possible soup or pizza, and early chatting)
Place: Rich Gibson's house: 241 Florence Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Events:
This was a great meeting! Steve showed off his kinetic sculpture. Brad showed
a cool project he did with his ShopBot and did
a little intro on motors and demonstrated stepper motor control, Steamboat Ed
showed the work he has on a flame callilope, and we talked about making a
machine to paint bodies, and alternate power generation.
Ed is convertign geo metro engines into steam engines, and once you have a
steam engine you _almost_ have a steam turbine. And if you can control a device
to paint boobies you can control a heliostat solar concentrator to drive that
steam turbine.
Stop thinking about the boobies, focus on the steam turbine from step 1.
wikipedia article on heliostats
Dorkbot Sebastopol Pictures on Flickr
And coming up Brad Silva is working on a session From Electrons to Magnetisim
to Motion an introduction to fairly cheap motors and how to control them.
Second Meeting
Time: 7:00pm Wednesday January 16th, 2008 (come at 6:00 for possible soup or pizza, and early chatting)
Place: Rich Gibson's house: 241 Florence Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Events:
- This is a hack night, bring projects, show projects, and build stuff!
- Group Project Discussion!
- I have two half assembled Brain Machines we can mess with, or we can
shoot the breeze and drink beer.
- Dorkbot free table - I have stuff I want to get rid of, do you? Bring it, give it away. The only (initial) rule
is if no one wants it you need to take it back with you.
Steve Chalem and I chatted, and he writes: "I'd like to find others in the group interested in working on a joint
project; something fun, creative, and possibly burningman-bound.
Rich and I have talked about this and come up with a couple of ideas: an
abstract robotic sculpture; and a body-painting machine. I'm hoping
that people interested in working on this will elaborate more on these
ideas, or suggest new ideas, or just get enthusiastic over one of our
ideas!"
Think of the possibilities in a body painting machine!
contact rich@testingrange.com with questions
First Meeting
Time: 7:00pm Wednesday January 9th, 2008
Place: Rich Gibson's house: 241 Florence Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472
Events:
- Gigapan.org - Gigapixel Panoramas for all
- Dorkbot hack nights in Sebastopol
- Dorkbot free table - I have stuff I want to get rid of, do you? Bring it, give it away. The only (initial) rule
is if no one wants it you need to take it back with you.
contact rich@testingrange.com with questions
Look for this house...
Brad Silva captured some links referred to during our first meeting...
- http://charmedlabs.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111
- http://zoomquilt2.madmindworx.com/
- http://www.helveticafilm.com/
- http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
- http://carlpisaturo.com/
- http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8368
- http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=762
- http://gigapan.org/