One of the great things about podcamp boston was Pulver TV. It shined the spotlight on the community! - Link
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
My buddy Lee Lefever brought it to my attention that the zombies are coming. - Link
In order to keep my brain intact within my skull, I’m adopting the non-traditional infiltration approach described in this podcast. I’ve called in Erik Beck and Justin Johnson of Indy Mogul for help. - Link
It’s hard to find halloween music that’s creative commons and awesome. This week for the podcast background music, I turned to the Open Source Audio section of the Internet Archive and found Zyzzybalubah’s Fandango Halloween EP. It’s brilliant! - Link Zyzzybalubah is also on myspace! - Link
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Here’s the cover. - Link to giant photo.
Here’s me looking all squinty eyed with my new favorite title: “bicoastal nerd.” - Link to giant photo.
Have you ever wanted to suck the blood out of an innocent’s neck? If so, then this is the project for you! Eric Skiff came over to help me make vampire fangs! Eric has made these for years using dental acrylic, but recently figured out that acrylic for nails is basically the same material. The great thing about this project is that you’ll learn how to mold three different types of materials! We’re going to make a negative mold of your teeth out of alginate, a positive mold out of your teeth out of plastic, and then the fangs are made out of a two part acrylic that you’d use to make fake fingernails!
Lately I’ve been spending time over at Hoeken’s lab. I met Hoeken through NYC Resistor and he rents out the balcony of a video studio to work on his reprap project. Reprap is all about making 3D printers with the eventual goal of being able to print out parts for a new printer… a self replicating robot!
Hoeken isn’t an electronics engineer, he’s a programmer, but he’s got the bug and nothing will stop him. He learned how to use Eagle CAD so that he could design breadboards for circuits that he found online. He’s started a non-profit foundation to buy parts in bulk and sell them to folks interested in building their own reprap machine. He’s also opened up his workshop and invited friends to come down and work with him and help out. It’s a blast.
I’m inspired enough that I’m going to make my own reprap machine. His is version 1.0 and mine will be 1.1. There will be lots more posts about this, stay tuned!
Reprap site - Link
Reprap main blog - Link
Reprap builder blog - Link
NYC Resistor - Link
Have you thought about subscribing to my blog to stay updated? - Link
Baron Von PT and the Brebot travel forward in time to gander the FUTURE and the future is Maker Faire Austin - October 20-21, 2007 where branes colide!
View the video (above) get it as a MP4 or just subscribe via iTunes!
What’s Maker Faire? Glad you asked! two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset, including Swap-O-Rama-Rama, the King of Fling Catapult Competition, and Edible Austin’s DIY Food - Link.
When: October 20-21, 2007
Were: at Travis County Expo Center, 7311 Decker Lane, Austin, Texas.
Hours: Saturday 10am-6pm and Sunday 10am-5pm.
Get your tickets now! - Link.
You’re invited to come to NYC Resistor’s Microcontroller Study Group. It’s a study group for people who like to play with microcontrollers!
We’ll be making brain machines, having presentations on how to be a wiki ninja, how to work with illumilight and resin. We get together to share projects and ideas. Come with all your parts for the brain machine and if you need help we’ll have folks and a soldering iron or two to help you! We start with a show and tell so if you’ve got something you’ve made, bring it on down!
If you want to stay up to date with the Microcontroller Study Group. Join the group! - Link
What: NYC Resistor’s Microcontroller Study Group - Link
When: October 10th 7pm
Where: Lemurplex - Link
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