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* help start a Lego WeDo/Mindstorms club (would it be interesting to think about minimal hardware platform for their IDEs?) | * help start a Lego WeDo/Mindstorms club (would it be interesting to think about minimal hardware platform for their IDEs?) | ||
* convert a couple of PandoraBots into local RebeccaAIML entities. | * convert a couple of PandoraBots into local RebeccaAIML entities. | ||
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+ | I '''have sourced [http://http://blinkybug.com/ Blinkybug] components''' almost entirely from London shops: | ||
+ | * 5mm LEDs from [http://maplin.co.uk Maplin] | ||
+ | * 3V 2032 Li coin cell batteries from almost anywhere ([http://homebase.co.uk Homebase] was more expensive than the local [http://www.postoffice.co.uk Post Office]) | ||
+ | * guitar string (high E, custom guage 9) from [http://www.folkiesonline.com Folkies Music] | ||
+ | * 1.6mm OD copper tubing from [http://www.modelshop.co.uk/ 4D modelshop] | ||
+ | * pipe cleaners and craft glue dots from [http://www.londonart-shop.co.uk/ London Art] | ||
+ | * [http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?CMP=i-ddd7-00001003&sku=8868557 conductive tape] from [http://uk.farnell.com Farnell] |
Revision as of 19:36, 28 April 2012
Colin Rowat, c.rowat@espero.org.uk
I am currently working on:
- a
fifthsixth visit to Hackspace
I have:
- a Zeo Personal Sleep Coach
- a Suunto t3 heart rate monitor, with chest strap and watch
- a Lego Mindstorms NXT 2.0 set and First LEGO League Challenge 2011 kit
- a ZX81 (somewhere?) with 16k of RAM, and an HP-15C
- an Arduino Uno R3 starter kit from Earthshine Electronics
- a Kindle
- a Raspberry Pi (forthcoming)
- a bunch of old mobile phones (including a SE K608i, a k800i, and a Nokia E90)
- a pair of intact but dysfunctional Realistic TRC-201 GRS transceivers (walkie-talkies)
- a 110 litre tropical fishtank
- a Go board
- a vintage Air Zound rechargeable signal horn
- a Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent
- a Sony CRX1600L (wired for North America)
- an AlcoSense Elite digital breathalyser
- a children's weather station
- an article in Adbusters
- three children with Y2K-compliant incept dates (Do Not Hack)
- one red paperclip (more precisely, I know someone who's willing to trade his)
- a Sony DCR-TRV33E mini DV Digital Handycam whose video is shot (centre heads gone?), and probably some cassettes for it
3/4* round(Bachelor of Industrial Design) = 0
I know how to:
- pick a two-pin lock
- write in LaTeX, most enjoyably Till Tantau's PGF/TikZ and Ulrike Fischer's chessboard and xskak
I would like to:
- develop a tracking device that could fit in the front tube of my children's scooters in an attempt to detect the thief stealing scooters from their school
- help my children engrave their names on their Haipad M7/Herotab C8/Dropad A8 tablets, and perhaps even repair the screen on one of them
- hack my Zeo so that it can indicate how well rested I am, not just how well I'm sleeping (ideas here and here; project placer here)
- hack my Kindle so that it can do whatever a Linux box should be able to do
- code up the Black-Scholes option pricing formula in an esoteric programming language to add to Espen Haug's list
- build a roving aquatic cam-bot for our aquarium (heros: Cambridge's coffee cam and Liquid Robotics' PacX Wave Gliders)
- unlock my Desire HD so that I can use a foreign SIM card in it when travelling
- find a good use for my www.wrongdoing.org domain
- make an A3 e-paper device linked to Google Calendar for our kitchen
- help start a Lego WeDo/Mindstorms club (would it be interesting to think about minimal hardware platform for their IDEs?)
- convert a couple of PandoraBots into local RebeccaAIML entities.
I have sourced Blinkybug components almost entirely from London shops:
- 5mm LEDs from Maplin
- 3V 2032 Li coin cell batteries from almost anywhere (Homebase was more expensive than the local Post Office)
- guitar string (high E, custom guage 9) from Folkies Music
- 1.6mm OD copper tubing from 4D modelshop
- pipe cleaners and craft glue dots from London Art
- conductive tape from Farnell