[Vanhackspace] This week at VHS

[Sean Hill]

When is the LED workshop starting? 7... 8...?

Cheers,

Sean


Dallas Luther wrote:
> If you want to bring LEDs and batteries, that would be fine, we can
> help get them up and running! Lee's sells very bright 1 watt RGB LEDs
> for $9, which would work nicely in most conditions. Add a couple of
> AA's in a battery holder and a switch, and you have a nice little LED
> light.  
>
> Dallas
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Emily Smith <emily at bluemollusc.com
> <mailto:emily at bluemollusc.com>> wrote:
>
>     Do we need to bring any supplies for Tuesday's workshop?
>
>     On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:25 AM, goldfish yo
>     <goldfish.yo at gmail.com <mailto:goldfish.yo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         We've got a week packed with awesome at VHS for all the
>         hackers, crafters and makers out there. 
>
>         Tonight, Monday July 19th is our second VHS craft night, and
>         first VHS craft night workshop. We're going to doing some
>         modular origami. What is modular Origami? Well our workshop
>         host Mathew has provided an awesome description:
>
>         *Modular origami*, or unit origami, is
>         a paperfolding technique which uses multiple sheets
>         of paper to create a larger and more complex structure than
>         would be possible using single-piece origami techniques. Each
>         individual sheet of paper is folded into a module, or unit,
>         and then modules are assembled into an integrated flat shape
>         or three-dimensional structure by inserting flaps into pockets
>         created by the folding process. These insertions create
>         tension or friction that holds the model together.
>
>         We will be making one of three modular constructions of 12 or
>         32 units ranging from beginner to intermediate skill level.
>         Mathew will bring some origami paper, but for those who want
>         to pick up paper, Yokayaya123 in International Village
>         (Tinseltown) or Daiso in Aberdeen mall have a large selection
>         of 6" x 6" sheets in many colours and patterns for $2 a
>         package of 30-100
>
>         This Tuesday, July 20th we are holding an introductory LED
>         workshop. We will go over some of the fundamentals to get you
>         rolling! 
>         This night is being held in conjunction with Public
>         Dreams( Illuminaries <http://www.publicdreams.org/> festival)
>         and will also feature some lantern making tutorials . Fancy
>         building you own LED Lantern? Come find out how!
>         We would like to make this a collaborative night, so if you
>         have some LED based projects, please bring them down and show
>         them off.
>
>         This Thursday, July 22nd we are holding a workshop on using
>         openFrameworks. Openframeworks is a c++ library designed to
>         assist the creative process by providing a simple and
>         intuitive framework for experimentation.
>
>         The library is designed to work as a general purpose glue, and
>         wraps together several commonly used libraries under a tidy
>         interface: openGL <http://www.opengl.org/> for
>         graphics, rtAudio
>         <http://www.music.mcgill.ca/%7Egary/rtaudio/> for audio input
>         and output, freeType
>         <http://freetype.sourceforge.net/index2.html> for
>         fonts,freeImage <http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/> for image
>         input and output, quicktime
>         <http://developer.apple.com/quicktime/> for video playing and
>         sequence grabbing.
>
>         More details on this last workshop will be coming, so stay tuned.
>
>         goldfish
>
>
>         _______________________________________________
>         Vanhackspace mailing list
>         Vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net
>         <mailto:Vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net>
>         http://lists.uselessdegree.net/listinfo.cgi/vanhackspace-uselessdegree.net
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     Sincerely, emily.
>
>     www.bluemollusc.com <http://www.bluemollusc.com>
>     604-219-4863 | emily at bluemollusc.com <mailto:emily at bluemollusc.com>
>     twitter: emilysmith2000
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Vanhackspace mailing list
>     Vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net
>     <mailto:Vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net>
>     http://lists.uselessdegree.net/listinfo.cgi/vanhackspace-uselessdegree.net
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Vanhackspace mailing list
> Vanhackspace at lists.uselessdegree.net
> http://lists.uselessdegree.net/listinfo.cgi/vanhackspace-uselessdegree.net
>   
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.uselessdegree.net/pipermail/vanhackspace-uselessdegree.net/attachments/20100720/7c2eac98/attachment-0001.htm>