[Vanhackspace] Vanhackspace Digest, Vol 18, Issue 14

[Steven Smethurst]

Hello

re: any suggestions or requests for future hardware/software/hacking nights?
Laser Spirograph
Someone (I forget there name) brought in a device with two motors, two
mirror and a laser pointer. It would be nice to have a night on this. It
looked like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kx9hr_5YRq4. We could take
it a step farther and add a microprocessor (Arduino?) to do some of the more
interesting effects.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Laser-show-for-poor-man/ And one set farther
then that with a laser projector.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3jg8C0QhDI&feature=related

Simple effects pedals
I always wanted to learn how to make simple effects petals. more then just
learning how to make them but how they work.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-Your-Own-Guitar-Effects-Pedal/

Mame and arcade cabinet
http://mamedev.org/ I could do one on the MAME software.
Setup/Installation,Troubleshooting,
Hardware, Accessories, ect. I have personally never made a cabnet but I have
made arcade controllers before.

Hardware:
- Water balloon Catapult or Trebuchet,
http://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-good-sized-trebuchet/?ALLSTEPS
- GPS chips,
- Data loggers for Arduino
- Working with cmos camera,

Software,
- CakePHP, (I could do this one)
- Ruby on Rails,
- Python,
- Facebook API, Open ID, OpenSocial, (I could do this one)
- Jabber protocol,
- Different open licences, what to release your open projects under,
benefits of each one.



- Steven Smethurst
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