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…
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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…
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…
Posted in Arduino, Hardware Tagged with: Arduino, Audio Visualization, Laser Picture, LAZZZZORSSS, mirrors, motors, speaker
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…
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:
Posted in Hardware
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…
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…
Posted in Hardware Tagged with: 4th of July, Arduino, Bike Generator, Chicken Coop Door, Member Projects
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…
Posted in Arduino, Hardware Tagged with: 3D printed, Arduino, hard drive failure, image processing, image recognition, Train Detection
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…
Week(s) in Updates:
Yes, we’ve again lost a week towards the end of the month, this seems to happen every month but no worries – just makes for a longer post: Lots going on this week, we finally got a machine mounted near…
Posted in Hardware, News Tagged with: 3D printing, ants, bicycle blender, dream bikes, FLIR camera, MakerBot, pizza, SMSMyBus, Week in updates
High Speed Camera
One of the members owns a Casio EX-F1 that can shoot 600 and 1200 FPS video so of course we were hunting up things to shoot in slow motion: One of the most interesting was watching the Makerbot jump all…
Casting Update
There’s been a lot of interest in our aluminum casting efforts. We’ve stepped things up to our first lost foam casting exercise that ultimately resulted in failure with a lot of learning in the process: Using a foam blank machined…