When we get new space, experimenting with lighting is definitely something I want to do; And I hear you regarding how lighting affects our mood. Also: Light tables went to great effect at Bucketworks, as well, and you can use them in every single situation, regardless of what you're doing.
I have one question: What's the intelligent component of the light box that you are envisioning? (We were working on a wall of light last year, so we have some experience with diffusing plastics, multi-color LEDs, Arduino control of them; Jon Dugan made a box (a 4x4 array of RGB LEDs) that worked very well, roughly a foot by a foot in dimension.) On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Dan Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
