Archive for July, 2009

Tinkering — July 25h

Friday, July 31st, 2009

We had our usual tinkering get together on Saturday.  Here are some of the things that happened:

* Chris & Anna decorated the walls with cool space invaders stickers!

Chris and Anna prepare the invasion

*Added a spiffy new doorbell to the space.

R&D Doorbell

* We got the 3pi robot working and layed out a quick course for it. It can follow lines and solve mazes. Surprisingly quick for such a little thing…

Robot Racecourse3Pi in action

* Gav & Ev got started with an optical theremin project. We’re using optical distance sensors to detect the location of the hand, then feeding the data to the PC as MIDI information

Rocking out the optical theremin

Plus a bunch of other stuff that didn’t get captured by my camera.

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Saturday, July 4th, 2009

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R and D logo sketch

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