I Laser Etched Daleks and Patapons into a Moleskine notebook for my daughter last night. Epilog 45 W Laser (raster, p25, s50) at TechShop.
Here’s a photo!
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Laser Etching at TechShop
Saturday, April 5, 2008
TechShop - Laser Cutter
Saturday, March 29, 2008
TechShop was fun. Learned how to operate the Laser Cutter for cutting, etching and scoring.
Classes:
Basic covered safety, equipment and basic technique. We learned how to use Corel Draw and the “printer” driver that sends instructions to the cutter. We learned how to start and stop jobs and signs to look for that [...]
My Take
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Patapon: I normally can’t stand rhythm games, but this one is a ton of fun.
iPhone SDK: Finally! Looks great to me, but I am not happy about the ‘no background apps’ policy. I’d like 3rd party chat apps and feed readers to be able to alert me from the background. Hopefully, background [...]
TechShop
Thursday, March 27, 2008
I’m heading back to TechShop tomorrow. It’ll be my first visit since the Grand Opening and I’m looking forward to it.
I’ll be there at 6pm for the Basic Laser Cutting class and I’m staying for the 8pm Advanced class.
Now, if I can find some Patapon vector art…
BlinkMs
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
I’ve been playing with a series of BlinkMs hooked up to an Arduino and I am impressed.
Knight Rider Light Bar
Saturday, February 16, 2008
UPDATE (2/17/08): Added more videos to the bottom of this post.
UPDATE (2/17/08): Code is available here.
I’m making a Knight Rider (KITT) Light Bar to celebrate the premier of the new Knight Rider Made-For-TV Movie (tomorrow night on NBC). I’m using an Arduino Diecimila board and 18 LEDs.
Here’s a picture from a few hours ago. [...]
Congrats to Bunnie and the Chumby Team!
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Chumby has been shipping for a while now and people seem to love it! I love that hacked Chumbies are already starting to roll in!!
Congrats, Bunnie!
More Photos At Flickr
Maker Faire
Saturday, May 19, 2007
We’re getting ready to go to the Maker Faire. Last year’s was awesome and I’m sure this year’s will be even better. Taking the whole family!
HDR Photography
Monday, March 26, 2007
Gordon put up this awesome photo (actually 3 photos merged together with an $80 High Dynamic Range photo stitcher) of the lot behind the local Best Buy. WOW!
New Triklits Video
Saturday, September 30, 2006
I just uploaded a much better quality video of the Triklits set I bought from www.triklits.com a few weeks ago. First I talk about the programmable nature of the lights, then I talk about the built in animations. For the code I demonstrate in the video, see this post.
TechShop Grand Opening Video Tour
Saturday, September 30, 2006
I spent a couple of hours at the TechShop in Menlo Park today. It was a blast - here’s the official tour (the guide is Jim Newton, one of the founders).
Previous TechShop news can be found from Phillip at Make and here.
TechShop: Kinko’s For Geeks
Thursday, September 28, 2006
[Update: MAKE did an interview / tour.]
I’m ecstatic about the news that TechShop is opening right here in Menlo Park, CA - less than 2 miles from my office! 3D Printers, Laser Cutters and CNC machines in a workshop that only charges $30 a day?!?!?!
Here are some excerpts from their site to fill you [...]
Triklits Video
Sunday, September 17, 2006
I uploaded a low quality video taken with my cell phone. The first 3 minutes is a silent tour of the 30+ built in effects. At the 3 minute mark, you’ll see some of the effects and transitions I’m building into my script download app.
Update: I uploaded the app I wrote this weekend [...]
Day one with Triklits!
Saturday, September 16, 2006
I just picked up a box of Triklits from Mark of Network Wizards. I’ve been looking forward to these for a long time - I’m glad they are now available!
Triklits is a string of 24 lights. Each light can be assigned an RGB value. Inside each light are 3 leds (red, green [...]
Real-Time Facial Analysis/Augmentation for $129
Saturday, April 29, 2006
Phillip Torrone posted a video of the Logitech QuickCam Orbit MP in action. You can add one of dozens of augmentations ranging from hats to glasses to full blown avatars to your video chat experience. All of the effects utilize face tracking to keep in synch with your face’s eyes, eyebrows, lips, etc. Very impressive.