August 2009
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Tinkering -- August 22nd
At it again with tinkering on the weekend.
Some highlights:
We made some ferrofluid demonstration cells and gave them away
Set up a MythTV box, which will come in handy for our movie nights.
Bec’s project of welding up some brackets for a planter
Troubleshooting a Behemoth of an Oscilloscope, kindly donated by Kean
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Member's Projects -- 'Light Interrupted' by Adam...
Introducing a new category here on the blog, Member’s Projects. We’d like to show off some of the things people are making, taking apart, remaking or whatever! Our first project is by Adam Synnott, and is called ‘Light Interrupted’. It was recently featured in ‘Serial Space’ in Chippendale.
Light Interrupted
Light Interrupted is a rear projected FTIR multi-touch display using a combination of...
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Tinkering -- August 8th
Another get together this Saturday.
Some highlights
Chris gave his buffer overflow presentation, with demonstration code
Max did some experiments in underwater propulsion
Some tinkering with the R&D Robotic Jugband, the bellls work now!
Playing with high voltage Nixie bargraphs
3D printing again
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Tinkering -- August 1st
We just had another Saturday get together in the space. Loads of people arrived and participated. It’s starting to get crowded in there!
Some things which were playing around with include:
MakerBot 3D printing
The Robots and Dinosaurs Jugband
Tinkering with some servers and Xboxes
High voltage photography
Space maintenance
and a few other things
Status: This was a triumph!
