Projects
From Alpha One Labs
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[edit] Member main projects
- psytek - workbench for redroom / Flying_Saucer
- mareiska - musical composition
- bitless - refinishing table
- Rmd6502 - Calculator
- Sidney - gsm repeater
- Sam - Twin Mendel 3d printers
- Matt - GTK desktop alarm clock / calculator
- Ivan - Teapot / Target in the Dark
- akellehe - Signal Modulator / Demodulator (modem)
- kupad - Mousey_the_junkbot
- kupad - video game emulator OR a media center in the "game room"
[edit] Project Pool
- (I) IRC Text to Speech for #alphaonelabs
- (I) Twitter Text to Speech for @alphaonelabs tweets - http://donteatthefruit.com/2009/03/twittervoice3d-twitter-air-app-creativity-chaos-and-order/
- (I) A pizza making machine. Put in dough, cheese and sauce and out comes a perfect pizza ready to put into the oven (or hey, why not include the oven too!). (automaitc pancake machine! http://www.uncrate.com/men/home/kitchen/chefstack-automatic-pancake-machine/ http://www.chefstack.com) http://hackerspaceprojects.com/projects/list/psytek/6/ http://zedomax.com/blog/2009/11/23/noodle-making-robot/ http://hackaday.com/2010/02/03/print-your-own-pizza/
- (I) Hackerspace badge system that allows teachers to create badges and when students finish a class they tweet that they did and the badge goes onto their public profile. Ex: "@badger #soldersunday @alphaonelabs" Named Badger
- (I) iPhone voice memo to google voice uploader - this way your notes are transcribed through google voice. Similar (not as real-time) http://lifehacker.com/5346791/record-and-transcribe-notes-for-yourself-with-google-voice http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/11/voice_controlled_led_sign.html
- (I) Decibel meter / alarm to monitor the noise level. If something is to loud it sends a tweet to twitter.
- (I) Project vending machine to sell projects that the hackerspace is doing.
- (S) Flying_Saucer
- (I) Wireless computer monitor contact lenses http://io9.com/5352415/inventions-that-will-end-work-as-we-know-it http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/8/2009/09/500x_ARcontacts.jpg
- (I) Automatic high-speed hand washing and drying machine
- (I) Add a fingerprint doorknob to the common area.
- (I) Portable hacker space, can roll around to various places and give classes on the spot.
- (I) Cordless Bluetooth Webcam - battery powered can be passed around etc...I can donate my old treo 650 for this. Maybe we can rip out the camera and Bluetooth chip and hook it up to an arduino. Or we can just use an iPhone and program it to be a bt webcam. Actually just found this http://forums.makezine.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=463 would like to look into it further. You can do this with qik...http://www.bt-1.com/
- (S) A project a day(APAD) - takes a list of projects and assigns one per day to make it easier to focus. If a project ends up running into the next day then we can either postpone the next project, stop working on it and move on to the next or simultaneously work on both. http://github.com/johnbender/apad/tree/master would like to get this on http://heroku.com/
- (I) Automatic Tooth Brushing Machine
- (I) Emacs Org-Mode velocity input that generates a number based on due date and percent done.
- (I) Capacitive inductance keyboard on door / window that will allow users to type in letters and the "doorbell" will say the characters that are typed. (or just a regular keyboard) and also sends to twitter. http://code.google.com/p/tinkerit/wiki/Cantarino http://hackaday.com/2009/09/18/touch-sensitive-keypad/
- (I) motion sensor hooked up to a dhtml page that shows you if someone is in the room or not.
- (S) 2 point PCV pipe infrared trip wire tube / radar. (rmd6502)We certainly have enough infrared phototransistors - it shouldn't be to hard to find an infrared led, even at Rat Shack. http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino_Laser_Tripwire/
- (I) Altimeter kite
- (I) Create an arduino teachers manual. / syllabus / definitive way to do it
- (I) Portable white board plotter.
- (I) Capacitive sensing doorbell, great Arduino project. It can even PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) out the classic Westminster tone! http://hackaday.com/2009/09/17/software-pulse-width-modulation/
- (S) Alphanumeric LED display with FT2232 usb port http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/FT2232C.htm
- (I) Movie night, watch full metal jacket and ___ of war and eat http://www.mredepot.com/servlet/the-270/MRE-Military-USGI-Meal/Detail
- (S) RFID reader lock
- (I) Panning / tilting spotlight that follows a laser
- (I) E-paper wall display of wiki pages / information controlled by an Xcore86
- (I) laser array particlization instant prototyper - paricalizes plastic in a cloud then 2 lasers meet at a point in the cloud and make the plastic solid
- (I) iPhone watch
- (I) gsm repeaters - http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Extenders-YX500-Cel-Booster-Coverage/dp/B000E14G7S
- (I) cantenna
- (I) thumb watch - small thumbnail sided display that shows time or info .. Later revs similar to ip watch.
- (I) laser controlled volume and mute buttons
- (I) Workbench for the redroom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFpeNVO80kY
- (I) Animated business card http://zedomax.com/blog/2009/12/31/diy-animated-optical-illusions-magic/
- (I) phone camera based resistor color code reader
[edit] To Fix
- (I) Fix the wireless usb that was donated
[edit] Off the radar ideas
- (I) fold out benches against wall (we ended up getting desks. This is / was to have more room to sit. Idea is off the radar for now)
[edit] Project Showcase
- Alpha One Labs craft stick car
- Bluetooth Goggles
- HackerspaceProjects.com
- laser controlled lights
- robot pumpkins
- pumpkin carving for hackyhalloween
- plug and switch
- Carbonated fruit from http://lifehacker.com/5315768/make-your-taste-buds-tingle-with-homemade-carbonated-fruit
- Hackerspaces FAQ Wave
- A hackerspace projection wall where all hacker space video feeds are displayed. http://hackathon.tetalab.org/ The feeds can be tuned into by shining a laser at either screen (this feature is still in research). nykodemus and I both had this idea :)
Status key: I=incubation / idea, S=started C=complete
