From email at sethleary.com Wed Dec 5 19:44:00 2007 From: email at sethleary.com (Seth! Leary) Date: Wed Dec 5 19:46:31 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Metal detector help In-Reply-To: <6353D4DC26523B4587F5254CC0DD895118D38608@ehost006.exch005intermedia.net> Message-ID: <002801c837a1$17f73b40$6800a8c0@OfficePC1> Hi there. I need some help. Clearly I am not a big enough dork to solve this myself, so I am hoping that someone here will be my salvation. I have (sort of) designed a tabletop metal detector demostration. The idea is, a person places an object on the indicated spot, presses a button, and--if the object is metal--a buzzer sounds and the needle on a meter swings over. I took a very old metal detector, attached the coil to the bottom of the table and the other inards are on top, in a nice acrylic box. Alas, it does not work. Is there someone among us that knows a bunch about metal detectors and can help me build one that DOES work? The downside is, I am on a fairly tight schedule. The best part is, I can pay you in the local currency (if U.S. dollars is your local currency). I anxiously await a reply or two. Thank you! - Seth! P.S. Before someone replies with some smart-aleck remarks, let me just say that (a) the metal detector was tested and, yes, it worked and (b) we made sure that it really could register a hit through the wooden table. I should also mention that the failed experiment has been sent away to the Island of Misfit Toys and we'll be starting from scratch. Which is probably a good thing. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20071205/5afe0062/attachment-0001.html From alienrelics at yahoo.com Sat Dec 8 23:14:26 2007 From: alienrelics at yahoo.com (Steve Greenfield) Date: Sat Dec 8 23:14:33 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Metal detector help In-Reply-To: <002801c837a1$17f73b40$6800a8c0@OfficePC1> Message-ID: <475884.27264.qm@web54306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> I emailed you off list, did you get it? Steve Greenfield --- Seth! Leary wrote: > Hi there. I need some help. Clearly I am not a big enough dork to > solve this > myself, so I am hoping that someone here will be my salvation. I > have (sort > of) designed a tabletop metal detector demostration. The idea is, > a person > places an object on the indicated spot, presses a button, and--if > the object > is metal--a buzzer sounds and the needle on a meter swings over. > I took a > very old metal detector, attached the coil to the bottom of the > table and > the other inards are on top, in a nice acrylic box. Alas, it does > not work. > > Is there someone among us that knows a bunch about metal > detectors and can > help me build one that DOES work? The downside is, I am on a > fairly tight > schedule. The best part is, I can pay you in the local currency > (if U.S. > dollars is your local currency). > > I anxiously await a reply or two. Thank you! > > - Seth! > > P.S. Before someone replies with some smart-aleck remarks, let me > just say > that (a) the metal detector was tested and, yes, it worked and > (b) we made > sure that it really could register a hit through the wooden > table. I should > also mention that the failed experiment has been sent away to the > Island of > Misfit Toys and we'll be starting from scratch. Which is probably > a good > thing. > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ From email at sethleary.com Sun Dec 9 00:28:10 2007 From: email at sethleary.com (Seth! Leary) Date: Sun Dec 9 00:28:19 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Metal detector help In-Reply-To: <475884.27264.qm@web54306.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <02bf01c83a24$49953cd0$6800a8c0@OfficePC1> Steve, I did. More off list... - ! ------------------------------ I emailed you off list, did you get it? Steve Greenfield From eldan at eldan.co.uk Mon Dec 10 02:13:43 2007 From: eldan at eldan.co.uk (Eldan Goldenberg) Date: Mon Dec 10 02:13:54 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Pictures Of An Exhibition Message-ID: Attention fellow dork photographers! If you have any photos from "Strange Things", and would like me to link to them from the website, please drop me an email [might as well reply to this list - the chances are other people will be interested too]. If you are a Flick user, it would also be fabulous if you could add them to our pool ( http://www.flickr.com/groups/dorkbotsea/ ) and tag them with "pdstwe3". So far, I've seen a couple of nice sets of photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/qathi/sets/72157603413072061/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/espressobuzz/sets/72157603412833653/ The Accelerator Group have a few pics up: http://flickr.com/photos/7772128@N06/2093750582/ http://flickr.com/photos/meggatron/2094105461/ I have some from the installation process: http://flickr.com/photos/eldan/sets/72157603409845365/ And everything tagged as above is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/pdstwe3/ I'll update our own site in the next couple of days - for the time being it only has links to pictures from our previous two shows. Eldan From mike at clarkeconsulting.com Wed Dec 12 17:15:36 2007 From: mike at clarkeconsulting.com (Michael Clarke) Date: Wed Dec 12 17:18:10 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] [design] Fwd: Wearable art and Wearable Computing Opportunity (fwd) Message-ID: For any dorkbotters working on wearables (wearable art, wearable computing... or wearable computing art?), see below... ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >From: Pam Winfrey >Subject: Wearable art and Wearable Computing Opportunity >Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:44:10 -0800 > >Dear Arts Community, >I am curating a show at the Exploratorium which is scheduled to open >on April 25, 2008. This one night event will feature the best of >wearable art and wearable computing. The opening is an extravaganza >and include performances, a runway, and installations. As a more >lasting sculptural adventure, we will be asking artists if they >would be willing to contribute works that will hang on clotheslines >through out the rafters of the Exploratorium's cavernous warehouse >space for a period of about three months. >If you have something that you would like to contribute to the >evening or to the clothesline, please send me some information about >it. If you can, give me some indication of what it would cost to get >it to San Francisco as well. >Please feel free to email me with any questions you might have. >Also, feel free to send this email on to qualified individuals who >you think are doing interesting work in this field. >Best, Pamela Winfrey, Curator/ Senior Artist, The Exploratorium > >Pamela Winfrey >Senior Artist >The Exploratorium >3601 Lyon Street >San Francisco, CA 94123 >www.exploratorium.edu/arts >415-561-0309 >pamw@exploratorium.edu > From wiml at hhhh.org Thu Dec 13 00:35:38 2007 From: wiml at hhhh.org (Wim Lewis) Date: Thu Dec 13 00:36:29 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Conductive thread Message-ID: <3F2EEBEA-503B-4698-BBFA-A36EBD1E3B1C@hhhh.org> A while ago I saw a link (probably on a MAKE-affiliated website) to some pom-pom shaped touch lightswitches made from conductive yarn[1]. Pretty neat, but although the company[2] is in Seattle there doesn't seem to be a way to buy the stuff except in "pom-pom light switch kits"[3]. More recently I saw some of their switches (but not the pom- poms) at the Cephalopod Appreciation Society do[4]. They work pretty well and the conductive fluff is soft --- it doesn't feel wiry, although apparently it's made by weaving very fine wire into the thread, rather than by some sort of conductive coating treatment. But the other day I noticed that SparkFun (which sells random hard-to- find electronic parts) is now selling spools of conductive thread[5]. I don't know if it's the same stuff, but it seems like something fun to experiment with. FWIW, the McLeod Residence show (in Belltown) has a few nice dorkbottish things (and nice non-dorkbottish things for that matter). I got a kick out of the nifty video-mosaic "mirror" in the bathroom. Plus the giant squid of course. [1] http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/08/fuzzy_light_swi.html [2] http://www.ifmachines.com/ [3] http://www.ifmachines.com/products_puffKit.html [4] http://blog.mcleodresidence.com/2007/11/giant-squid-ope.html [5] http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8544 From mike at dawgdayz.com Thu Dec 13 00:51:42 2007 From: mike at dawgdayz.com (Mike Payson) Date: Thu Dec 13 00:52:08 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Conductive thread In-Reply-To: <3F2EEBEA-503B-4698-BBFA-A36EBD1E3B1C@hhhh.org> References: <3F2EEBEA-503B-4698-BBFA-A36EBD1E3B1C@hhhh.org> Message-ID: My friend Erika makes & sells yarn ( http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5268814), so she could probably spin you some if you can find the material. If you'd like her email, contact me off-list. Mike On Dec 12, 2007 9:35 PM, Wim Lewis wrote: > A while ago I saw a link (probably on a MAKE-affiliated website) to > some pom-pom shaped touch lightswitches made from conductive yarn[1]. > Pretty neat, but although the company[2] is in Seattle there doesn't > seem to be a way to buy the stuff except in "pom-pom light switch > kits"[3]. More recently I saw some of their switches (but not the pom- > poms) at the Cephalopod Appreciation Society do[4]. They work pretty > well and the conductive fluff is soft --- it doesn't feel wiry, > although apparently it's made by weaving very fine wire into the > thread, rather than by some sort of conductive coating treatment. But > the other day I noticed that SparkFun (which sells random hard-to- > find electronic parts) is now selling spools of conductive thread[5]. > I don't know if it's the same stuff, but it seems like something fun > to experiment with. > > FWIW, the McLeod Residence show (in Belltown) has a few nice > dorkbottish things (and nice non-dorkbottish things for that matter). > I got a kick out of the nifty video-mosaic "mirror" in the bathroom. > Plus the giant squid of course. > > [1] http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/08/fuzzy_light_swi.html > [2] http://www.ifmachines.com/ > [3] http://www.ifmachines.com/products_puffKit.html > [4] http://blog.mcleodresidence.com/2007/11/giant-squid-ope.html > [5] http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8544 > > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20071212/2aad1331/attachment.html From ecmcn at yahoo.com Thu Dec 13 15:23:09 2007 From: ecmcn at yahoo.com (Eric McNeill) Date: Thu Dec 13 15:23:16 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Projector to loan to dorkbot? Message-ID: <253239.36411.qm@web37913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> We've had some plans for equipment fall through for part of our Strange Things show at 911 and are in need of a projector for one of the pieces. If you have one we could borrow for any or all of the first three weeks of January we can likely figure out a way to reimburse you for the bulb time used (6 days a week, 6 hours per day). thanks, Eric --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20071213/55483a41/attachment.html From ian at v8media.com Thu Dec 13 17:38:23 2007 From: ian at v8media.com (Ian Page-Echols) Date: Thu Dec 13 17:38:33 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Projector to loan to dorkbot? In-Reply-To: <253239.36411.qm@web37913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <253239.36411.qm@web37913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <3086A03F-7F4E-4D2E-B111-A8D619B33CAA@v8media.com> Depending on how much you are having to reimburse someone, it might make more sense to buy one. Here are a few searches on pricewatch, for comparison: http://www.pricewatch.com/projectors/dlp.htm http://www.pricewatch.com/projectors/2000_lumens.htm http://www.pricewatch.com/projectors/svga.htm That said, I don't think I will be needing mine in that time period. It does 800x600 for computer, plugs into most things, no hdmi or anything shmancy. S-Video, RCA jacks, and VGA port. 120 lumen. It's pretty decent, I use it for visuals at smaller venues and it's worked fine. Mine will do keystoning vertically (so the projector can be at any height, but even across from the projected surface), horizontal keystoning is usually a $1500 or more feature, but then you can have the projector at weird angles from the projected surface and still make the picture look fine. Ian On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:23 PM, Eric McNeill wrote: > We've had some plans for equipment fall through for part of our > Strange Things show at 911 and are in need of a projector for one of > the pieces. If you have one we could borrow for any or all of the > first three weeks of January we can likely figure out a way to > reimburse you for the bulb time used (6 days a week, 6 hours per day). > > thanks, > Eric Ian Page-Echols V8 Media ian@v8media.com 206.949.4857 v8media.com visuals, interactive/installations, video, mac support From mike at clarkeconsulting.com Sat Dec 15 16:59:57 2007 From: mike at clarkeconsulting.com (Michael Clarke) Date: Sat Dec 15 17:02:13 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, vintage 1999, FREE to a good home! In-Reply-To: <026001c78607$fdeefee0$6401a8c0@fawkes> Message-ID: Sitting in my garage is a touch-sensitive disco floor, an old piece that I've been schlepping around for several years (actually, since the previous millenium) and have now been ordered to get rid of due to its large size. It's about 4' x 4' x 6" deep, a wooden grid frame underneath sixteen 1' x 1' lexan tiles with different color theatre gels and tracing paper diffusers attached to the bottom side, so that each tile lights up uniformly in one of several different basic colors. The light source is an MR16 12V halogen bulb underneath each square; each tile also has an Interlink FSR that acts as a detect switch (with no detent) when a person steps on the tile. All the lights and sensors are wired out to a single ribbon cable that can be plugged into a control board. The control board has long-since been salvaged for other things, but it would not be hard to create one -- just need a MCU, a lot of I/Os, some power FETs, and a hefty 12V supply, and it should be back in business. A few parts have been salvaged from the floor (mainly about 3 of the lexan tiles) but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. There's a photo of it here: http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.clarke/ForSaleOrGiveaway/photo#5144319269468876418 The sole catch is that you have to find your own means of picking it up and carting it away -- it won't fit in any kind of transportation that I have available. Best days to get it are weekends, Wednesdays or Fridays. Drop me a line if you're seriously interested. -Mike From spam at hell.org Sat Dec 15 22:44:15 2007 From: spam at hell.org (mike begley) Date: Sat Dec 15 22:44:25 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, vintage 1999, FREE to a good home! Message-ID: <544B6ADB5C3EA047A39B50FCE8F8851569567D@bsod.bigwhitehouse.net> I may be interested in this! I will contact you tomorrow if it's still available. -mike > -----Original Message----- > From: dorkbotsea-blabber-bounces@music.columbia.edu > [mailto:dorkbotsea-blabber-bounces@music.columbia.edu] On > Behalf Of Michael Clarke > Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 2:00 PM > To: A discussion list for dorkbot-sea > Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, > vintage 1999,FREE to a good home! > > Sitting in my garage is a touch-sensitive disco floor, an old > piece that I've been schlepping around for several years > (actually, since the previous millenium) and have now been > ordered to get rid of due to its large size. It's about 4' x > 4' x 6" deep, a wooden grid frame underneath sixteen 1' x 1' > lexan tiles with different color theatre gels and tracing > paper diffusers attached to the bottom side, so that each > tile lights up uniformly in one of several different basic > colors. The light source is an MR16 12V halogen bulb > underneath each square; each tile also has an Interlink FSR > that acts as a detect switch (with no detent) when a person > steps on the tile. All the lights and sensors are wired out > to a single ribbon cable that can be plugged into a control > board. The control board has long-since been salvaged for > other things, but it would not be hard to create one -- just > need a MCU, a lot of I/Os, some power FETs, and a hefty 12V > supply, and it should be back in business. A few parts have > been salvaged from the floor (mainly about 3 of the lexan > tiles) but otherwise it's in pretty good shape. > > There's a photo of it here: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.clarke/ForSaleOrGiveaway/phot > o#5144319269468876418 > > The sole catch is that you have to find your own means of > picking it up and carting it away -- it won't fit in any kind > of transportation that I have available. Best days to get it > are weekends, Wednesdays or Fridays. > Drop me a line if you're seriously interested. > > -Mike > > .............................................................. > .......... > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with > electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org.................. > .......... > .............................................................. > .......... > From spam at hell.org Sat Dec 15 22:45:52 2007 From: spam at hell.org (mike begley) Date: Sat Dec 15 22:45:55 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, vintage 1999, FREE to a good home! Message-ID: <544B6ADB5C3EA047A39B50FCE8F8851569567E@bsod.bigwhitehouse.net> CrapCrapCrap damned Reply-To-All. a good home! > > I may be interested in this! I will contact you tomorrow if > it's still available. > From lwkett at gmail.com Tue Dec 18 17:35:26 2007 From: lwkett at gmail.com (Lance Kett) Date: Tue Dec 18 17:35:34 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] human-sensing disco floor, vintage 1999, FREE to a good home! In-Reply-To: References: <026001c78607$fdeefee0$6401a8c0@fawkes> Message-ID: <1d4371160712181435r78843efeyf7b6cd04df7b93e3@mail.gmail.com> if you still have this, i'm interested! Lance 425-408-2323 On Dec 15, 2007 1:59 PM, Michael Clarke wrote: > Sitting in my garage is a touch-sensitive disco floor, an old piece that > I've been schlepping around for several years (actually, since the > previous millenium) and have now been ordered to get rid of due to its > large size. It's about 4' x 4' x 6" deep, a wooden grid frame underneath > sixteen 1' x 1' lexan tiles with different color theatre gels and tracing > paper diffusers attached to the bottom side, so that each tile lights up > uniformly in one of several different basic colors. The light source is > an MR16 12V halogen bulb underneath each square; each tile also has an > Interlink FSR that acts as a detect switch (with no detent) when a person > steps on the tile. All the lights and sensors are wired out to a single > ribbon cable that can be plugged into a control board. The control board > has long-since been salvaged for other things, but it would not be hard to > create one -- just need a MCU, a lot of I/Os, some power FETs, and a hefty > 12V supply, and it should be back in business. A few parts have been > salvaged from the floor (mainly about 3 of the lexan tiles) but otherwise > it's in pretty good shape. > > There's a photo of it here: > > http://picasaweb.google.com/mike.clarke/ForSaleOrGiveaway/photo#5144319269468876418 > > The sole catch is that you have to find your own means of picking it up > and carting it away -- it won't fit in any kind of transportation that I > have available. Best days to get it are weekends, Wednesdays or Fridays. > Drop me a line if you're seriously interested. > > -Mike > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > From billb at eskimo.com Thu Dec 20 20:05:45 2007 From: billb at eskimo.com (William Beaty) Date: Thu Dec 20 20:05:54 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] PDSTWE3 in the Seattle PI Message-ID: See: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/finearts/ http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/344296_inbrief21.html (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website billb at amasci com http://amasci.com EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci From shellyhivemind at gmail.com Thu Dec 20 22:52:39 2007 From: shellyhivemind at gmail.com (shelly@hive-mind.com) Date: Thu Dec 20 22:52:51 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] PDSTWE3 in the Seattle PI In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <37bd773c0712201952g55f05134o6137baff8bb00966@mail.gmail.com> Cool. I hope y'all will take this as a call to be "more strange" next year. :) Shely On Dec 20, 2007 5:05 PM, William Beaty wrote: > > See: > > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/finearts/ > > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/344296_inbrief21.html > > > > (((((((((((((((((( ( ( ( ( (O) ) ) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))) > William J. Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Beaty SCIENCE HOBBYIST website > billb at amasci com http://amasci.com > EE/programmer/sci-exhibits amateur science, hobby projects, sci fair > Seattle, WA 425-222-5066 unusual phenomena, tesla coils, weird sci > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20071220/4e657f17/attachment-0001.html From beaty at chem.washington.edu Wed Dec 26 13:01:50 2007 From: beaty at chem.washington.edu (Bill Beaty) Date: Wed Dec 26 13:01:56 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Steampunk costume ball, Gig Harbor Jan 5th Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20071226095955.01c16778@gibbs.chem.washington.edu> > From: Marcy LaViollette > > There's an awesome looking Steampunk/Victorian event in Gig Harbor on Jan > 5th. (Advance tickets $7 for one or $12 for two) > > http://www.fabulousparties.org/fhhcbv.html > > Hope to see you all there! ((((((((((((((((((((((( ( ( (o) ) ) ))))))))))))))))))))))) William J. Beaty http://staff.washington.edu/wbeaty/ Research Engineer UW Chem Dept, Bagley Hall RM74 beaty@chem.washington.edu Box 351700, Seattle, WA 98195-1700 ph:206-543-6195 fax:206-685-8665 From mike at worb.com Fri Dec 28 21:54:51 2007 From: mike at worb.com (Michael Worobec) Date: Fri Dec 28 21:55:04 2007 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Tiger Electronics Power Tour Guitar mods Message-ID: <4775B6FB.10307@worb.com> I got a Tiger Electronics Power Tour Guitar for Krimus, and I want to mod it to make it a MIDI instrument. It has 12 electrostatic sensors on the neck, one between each pair of frets (i.e. a chromatic scale), and an optical sensor for strumming. There's also some kind of sensor for whammy/tremolo effects too. Best Buy has these on sale for $25. I do not know if the electrostatic sensors can operate independently, and I do not know if the sensors indicate more than just on/off. But, they are very sensitive and fast, it appears. Anybody interested in a collab on such a tweak? I'm thinking of using one or more Atmel controllers to turn the sensor input into a MIDI stream - there is probably some existing source that can bit-bang out a serial MIDI stream which we could adopt to the Atmel. Gaps I'm hoping a collaborator could fill: some knowledge of the sensors or type of sensors this kind of thing has. Also, some in-depth MIDI knowledge (I have some, and could hack something together nonetheless). http://www.hasbro.com/tiger/powertourguitar/ Note the volume goes up to 11... Mike W