Hey we are live at the Maker Faire, blogging live! See our automated camera that follows people? Well, it’s a $160 Logitech camera we got in a hurry at Best Buy last night just before the store closed. Glad we got it working although the internet here sucks sometimes. Anyway, our booth is really popular! 🙂
Garrett is doing a great job with the crowd while I am hiding in the back. (Why am I hiding? Blogging of course!)
I decided to run down to Techshop in Menlo Park this evening and get OK’ed on the laser cutter/engravers. There are a few projects coming up that may need some fancy parts. Anyway, I had my old nearly-dead laptop along and decided to make it my first project ever, after the training class. I copied a fractal image that was stored on the laptop’s hard drive and etched the design onto the back of the lid. I probably could have dialed the DPI down a l
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Cool, check out the Maker Faire Showcase video. Nice hat Phil! (Are you going to wear it at the faire?)
Yes, make to check out Zedomax at Maker Faire. We will have live blogging where you can get yourself on Zedomax!
We will have some fun stuff like USB Mouse Prank and
video://blip.tv/file/get/Zedomax-USBMousePrankDevice395
I was at work trying to draw some stuff and Garrett came over with his USB Hid Portal device and plugged it into my USB hub (which was annoying at first) then suddenly my mouse started making circles on its own! So we decided to call this the USB Mouse Prank Device… There’s really no howto on this but you can check out Garrett’s past USB projects such as:
I went to the Silicon Valley Electronics Fleamarket in San Jose this morning. It was great, I wanted to buy everything! I was too busy looking at all the cool stuff to actually buy much. I’m definitely going to this every time they have it…next one is May 12th, 5am to noon. Here’s a
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyEe7ysh9Y
Here’s a preview of our USB Portal Project we will be showcasing at Maker Faire 2007.
It’s basically a BASIC programmable USB device so you can connect embedded devices easily to your PC whether that be a video game, industrial application, or whatever that you can think of.
Check out our previous
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For this weekend, we will show you how to make an ethernet controlled color organ that can be applied for some kind of stage lighting.
We will be using the party light we made and simply plugin the
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDRKS9woFXU
Here’s the last DIY for year 2006!
Okay, we have seen some really cool Light Orbs while trying to make this Music Syncing Light Orb Alarm Clock. We started with Tod’s creation and soon realize that 1 LED will not be bright enough in slightest light condi
