hi all, Below is some information about the Geekosystem, a installation Julian Priest and I are doing in Christchurch at the Physics Room. Below is the announcement followed by an inventory of gear we are driving down in Dave Merritts Landrover (in a few minutes we leave from Wanganui), and a list of some ideas we have of things to make.
Also at the bottom are some links to some photos of our preparations for the drive. We are leaving today to Wellington and then tomorrow over the Strait and down to Chch. See you there :) A Geekosystem Adam Hyde and Julian Priest Free walk-in workshops: 18–22 February 2008 A Geekosystem Launch: Friday 22 February 2008, 5:30pm Project Exhibition: 23 February–22 March 2008 You are invited to contribute to A Geekosystem! A Geekosystem is a collection of interconnected recycled devices constructed, contributed and connected by visitors to the gallery. Throughout the entire week (18–22 February) anyone can come to The Physics Room and work with Adam Hyde and Julian Priest on the construction of A Geekosystem. You are welcome to bring gadgets for recycling, come to teach others how to make things, learn some stuff, bring old electronics or an idea for something you want or build, or just bring your own enthusiasm! The doors are open and we are here to teach you or help you make things and teach others. To initiate this process Adam and Julian have prepared some gadgets you might like to learn how to make from recycled materials. Ever wanted to build your own TV transmitter? What about an FM transmitter? Want to make your own solar panel? Make your own long distance internet wireless network from tin cans! If this sounds good to you then please feel welcome at The Physics Room anytime during the hours of 10am–5pm. Components will be provided and a free walk-in workshop will operate within the gallery to allow people to come and learn how to construct and add these devices to A Geekosystem. Those keen to contribute other ideas, gadgets, and informal workshops to A Geekosystem are invited to bring a project of their own to build at the workshop, or bring an existing device to integrate into A Geekosystem in some way. Friday 22 February is the launch of A Geekosystem. Invite your friends to the opening and show them what you have made! ENDS 1. portable cd player - take a ide portable cd player and make a battery supply for it. - build strap - it becomes a discman! - also used as geekosystem audio tour - needs headphones 2. audio tours - text to speech of doco on an old mac - bubbles 3. tape wall - tape cassette tape to a wall - use a cassette read head to read it - you run down the wall and listen to the tape - can you get the right speed? 4. tape bot - hand cassette tape from the ceiling - tape bots fall down the tape playing the sound 5. keyboard scrabble - make a scrabble game out of keyboard keys - take the keys off and players must put them back on - geoff fugle 6. keyboard jigsaw puzzle - put a picture on the keys - chop them out - take them off - put them back! - or use them as a bit map 7. mice as poi - microsoft mice as poi 8. crates as desk - use one crate + a top to make a desk - put a piece of wood under for a keyboard ergo slideout 9. ribbon cable kete - use ide cables for kete instead of flax 10. typerwriter network - tie 2 typewriters together with a loop of paper - typing on one will make text on the paper which then goes to the other - use a mobius strip - or string and pulleys to connect the keys - collaborative writing environment 11. cost benefit analysis - in the doco do cost benefit analysis 12. disk bank green house - use a disk bank for germinating seedlings 13. thermal drawing - use thermal fax paper to draw with heat - make shrouds with thermal body heat transfer - integrate the thermal printer - carbon paper 14. variable resistor sound drawing - make a circuit that makes sound - the oscillations are reliant on the resistor - use carbon paper as the resistor - drawing on it changes the resistance and thus the sound ref overclocking motherboards with pencil on resistor 15. acoustic network - take 2 satellite dishes - put mike and speaker at the focus - have computer with sound output - spectrum or apple II e 16. manuals as compost - shred proprietary software manuals - use as mulch for compost 17. geek library - resource and reference library of useful books 18. build a linux server - build a linux server out of junk 19. mac classic as fish tank - turn a mac classic into a fish tank 20. fm transmitter - build an fm transmitter 21. shortwave to fm mosh - sw receiver into an fm transmitter 22. endoscope imaging - what can you see? 23. golfball golf - use golfball typewriter golfball for a pitch and put 24. blah blah - recordings of dotcom execs at their peak - spotting ex buzzwords 25. software flower pots - shrink wrap software boxes as bio degradable flower pots #inventory for geekosystem packed at wanganui east wool store 15.02.2008 *books 4 x boxes of proprietary manuals for shredding 3 x boxes of reference material for keeping 1 x box mixed books 1 x box 24 assorted cd drives 1 x box peripheral pc cabling and cards 1 x box scsi ide isa legacy cards 1 x box books 1 x box power cables + keyboard 1 x box assorted audio tools + radios 1 x box audio speakers 1 x box power supplies 3 x mac classics 1 x box assorted cables and media 1 x box telephones and answerphones 4 x digital venturas 1 x apple IIe 1 x thermal printer 1 x spectrum 1 x box assorted electronic components and heat sinks 1 x amiga 1 x powerbook 150 1 x panasonic lazer printer 1 x box software 1 x box assorted motherboards 1 x box keyboard mice and apple external scsi drive and apple IIe floppy 1 x box disk banks and card cases 1 x box type writer, reel 2 reel tape, kids karaoke 1 x 2 satellite dishes 2 x boxes of radios 1 x cad tablet and puck 5 x calculators 2 x satellite dishes 1 x mobile speaker 1 x shortwave antenna ================ Photos of preparations: http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/rover.jpg http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/crews.jpg http://www.geekosystem.org/photos/geekoffice.jpg The geekosystem website isn't online yet but will be by Monday at : http://www.geekosystem.org adam -- Adam Hyde "Free as in Media" http://www.xs4all.nl/~adam _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
