I like Rogan's idea, although I too am not prepared to take on running yet another project. But if I were, here are some of the other ideas (to inspire others): * USB sniffer/spoofer -- from a failed startup in the past, I own one or two (having left the second in Pittsburgh) Net2280 evaluation boards. These are PCI USB2.0 host chip cards, intended for use in mocking up USB embedded devices -- they are pretty flexible. For the purpose of this project, the idea would be to build a man-in-the-middle box for analysizing (log, replay, synthesize) USB sessions between arbitrary devices. While I'm sure all of the functionality could be replicated in software running on the host, that could involve messy driver situations. With this, Saturday House could easily provide session capture data for any device in need of a less proprietary driver or better documentation.
My interest level: Happy to contribute the board(s) to the cause, an adequate bookshelf PC (from the same failed project), and provide devices for session capture. Not much interest in returning to the software side of this space (twas a painful failure). * Semi-intelligent light box wall -- through high school (when the data was high res enough), you could determine the seasons by the ebb and flow of my grades. After moving to Seattle, I recognized that I really should get around to using a light box for SAD. Almost a year and a half later, I have not been able to pull the trigger -- the prebuilt boxes are too small/too expensive for technology that, in previous lives, I built for novelty (like a blue LED dog collar for my (previously) all-black dog. And yet I also have not gotten around to building one. Ideally, I am interested in a big and bright source of light: a big surface area (like the reactable, a sheet with regularly spaced leds) or filling out a picture frame. It would also be nice to be adjustable, sensor aware, and addressable -- I have a teensy board for this purpose. My interest level: If anyone else were interested in building one, it would probably inspire me to actually refresh my memory on the circuit design to spec out and build mine. I have to replace the glass surface of table in the next couple of days, and that might be the right starting place for my purposes. Dan. On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 5:54 PM, Rogan Creswick <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've always wanted an RF-id reader hooked up to a programmable alarm > and mounted to my front door. It needs to go off if, for example, my > wallet ever leaves the house w/out my keys, but in general. (This is > meant to keep me from forgetting important things, not to prevent > theft.) > > It looks like the readers have dropped substantially in prices since I > last looked (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/907a/) > although, my concept of "expensive" is much different from when I was > in college, living on top ramen and iceberg lettuce... > > I don't have time to run a project like this through Sat.House right > now, but thought I'd throw it out there for the sake of discussion :) > > --Rogan > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Ryan Reggio <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ok so right now as all of you may or may not know. Daniel, lion, > > Rehana, Phil, and myself are working on the reactable which you can > > learn more about on Saturday house's ether pad (http://etherpad.com/ > > saturdayhouse). however at some point we will finish the reactable and > > will be in need of something else to do. > > > > so, here's the idea, any idea, inkling, project, experiment, etc. > > you can think of, put here. no idea is too crazy (ok i think we can > > all rule out political assassination) to mention. we may not get to > > them right away however we need ideas for what we are going to do > > ahead of time that way people can see what the current group of active > > members is interested in. this, hopefully will attract more people > > interested in these topics to come out and join us. > > > > so Daniel and myself are interested in making a 3d Printer much like > > the CandyFab 4000 > > (seen here: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/candyfab). > > this is something that we are very interested in and would like to > > make. however there are quite a few parts that would be needed. i > > suspect Daniel and me will be talking more about it and finalize what > > we want to do with it, before we submit it as an idea. however its > > things like this that we need. > > > > i was talking to a friend and he is very interested in building a > > 3d gaming projector. i am not sure i fully understand the concept but > > he was saying something about using a HD projector to project through > > a piece of polarized glass to get the effect he was looking for. I'll > > post more about this once i start to better understand how he wants to > > accomplish this. but its and idea to think about. > > > > so get to it people i want to hear your ideas! > > > > -Ryan > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
