Projects

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Contents 1 Projects 1.1 Stuff people have going already 1.2 LED Matrix oscilloscope 1.3 Really good beginner project 1.4 LED Table projects 2 Other projects from around the world 2.1 Pete Edwards' projects 2.1.1 New ideas

[edit] Projects

[edit] Stuff people have going already

• LED wall clock
• Megascroller
• Metal melting furnace 2
• LED Binary Wristwatch Clock
• Wearable compass
• 3D Printer
• George's 5x5x5 cube
• Map that points north
• LED board of 20 x 20 - what ever you do on one shows up on the other
  • Monomee project (spelling?)
  • can use LED as a photodiode?
• Walkman music project
• S.A.D. Blue LED Alarm-Lamp
• LED Array Jacket
• LED Array Card has a bug, with second array controller chip... tracking.
• Stribe has been interfaced successfully with processing.
• Wheeled-Hexapod parts are acquired, entering design / part test phase.
• Droid is on hold pending budget changes.
• LED Sequined Prêt-à-Porter
• aprs stuff
• Time To Hack Binary Clock
• Six Foot Lite Brite
• Arduino Fire Alarm 1.0 - UV TRON flame sensor, Arduino, simple integrating filter, loud siren. Used for Lazzzor.

[edit] LED Matrix oscilloscope

• Eagle tutorial
  • Eagle is not neccessarily the standard
    • DipTrace is a really good one
    • ExpressPCB - Tied in with a PCB manufacturer - easier to learn, push a button, and it'll tell you how much it costs, send it to the company, etc.
    • Altium is the standard for the industry, but it's tens of thousands
  • Eagle will generate Gerber Files - anyone should be able to print PCBs from them.

[edit] Really good beginner project

• The Brain Machine
  • Great party trick
  • relaxing
  • basically mini-POV kit + safety goggles + capacitors + wire

[edit] LED Table projects

• ReacTABLE - table which has LEDs or projector + camera so it reacts to what you do above it.

[edit] Other projects from around the world

Octogon Death Star Building

• We've completed work on a 3x3x3 LED Cube.

• There is some additional english stuff: http://www.das-labor.org/wiki/Borg3d/en - Martin promised to write some kind of Borg3d DIY HOWTO, let's see ... [1] German only, Sry.

[edit] Pete Edwards' projects

http://casperelectronics.com/finished-pieces/sequencers/step-sequencer/

• Hoping for collaborators, lots of experience with electronics and custom musical instruments
  • SK1-casio keyboard with patch bay, tons of complete projects
  • Mechanical sequencer
    • has really interesting results because it's somewhere between analog and digital results, all each channel is on off singlas
    • You have to actually hand tool each wheel, and they rotate an hit buttons

[edit] New ideas

• Instead of mechanical switches, light up buttons
  • completely open platform, you can interface it with anything
  • 4-8 tracks with 16 steps each
  • Similar to all basic drum machines, but instead of activating a sample, you can activate anything from lights to analog instruments, to a baby laughing toy. You can have it trigger midi signals to your computer, but at a certain point, if you're interfacing it to a computer, it doesn't make sense...
  • lacking things like recalling different sequences - would be awesome to have presets.
  • Mechanical systems fail - want to keep it simple