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Category Archives: Hardware
Japanese Ice Sphere Mold
A few months ago, I found a video of an awesome “Japanese Ice Mold” online. The idea is simple: People like drinks cold. Ice makes things cold. Ice melts. People don’t like water in their drinks. To prevent melting, you … Continue reading
A Kalahari Christmas
After Erin took me on a ski trip to Salt Lake City for Christmas 2010, I was far behind in the Christmas Karma. For 2011 I planned to take her to a resort in Wisconsin Dells, which is sort of like … Continue reading
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Zmodo 16 Channel DVR
After seeing Pumping Station One’s implementation of a space utilization monitor and the cheap listing on Woot.com, we decided to invest in a 16 channel DVR camera system. The system is advertised as having a Linux based OS with a … Continue reading
Laser Display
For the past few weeks I’ve been working in spare time on a project that I originally did in high school. I wanted to resurrect it so that I could possibly take it to schools and give demonstrations. However, another opportunity has … Continue reading
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Tagged Arduino, Audio Visualization, Laser Picture, LAZZZZORSSS, mirrors, motors, speaker
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Art and the Arduino
It is a strange sight, like a snapshot of an Olympic swimming competition taken from below. Five swimmers, frozen in position, pulse with life. A light from each swimmer’s heart beats and illuminates the swimmer briefly. As the heart’s light … Continue reading
Machine Shop Panorama
Todd was testing out his 3D printed panorama tripod mount for his camera and came up with this awesome shot of our machine shop:
Seat Belt Bicycle Tire Upgrade
I was sick of getting flat bicycle tires, so on reading a few seat belt bike tire liner tricks online, I was ready to give it a shot. Having a few donor seat belts (that also found their way onto … Continue reading
Member Projects – Chicken Coop Door and Bicycle Generator
Chicken Coop Automatic Door: Rather than paying several hundred dollars for an automatic door system, Larry and Carol created a smart door by using junk around Sector67. The final product is composed of an expensive looking Swiss DC motor, some … Continue reading
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Tagged 4th of July, Arduino, Bike Generator, Chicken Coop Door, Member Projects
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Train Detecting Automatic Window Closer
A Sector67 member has the fortune to live in a really cheap apartment – only after the lease was a long signed and summer set in did it finally dawn on him why rent was cheap – those parallel steel … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D printed, Arduino, hard drive failure, image processing, image recognition, Train Detection
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Power Wheels Running
The car was built in 2 days, but tweaking took a few weeks. . . We’ve got 2.5 HP worth of propulsion and a Lithium Ion battery to boot! Everything seems to be working, it’ll soon be sitting comfortable in … Continue reading