• Posted On June 8, 2009
  • BY fabiola

Drawdio

The Drawdio was invented and developed by Jay Silver and Adafruit and is an electronic pencil that lets you make music while you draw. The Drawdio circuit is made from fifteen parts including a circuit board, capacitors, ceramic capacitors, resistors, tra...

  • Posted On August 14, 2009
  • BY fabiola

Milling Machine Troubleshoot

– Setup: Since we moved the computers around (blame MakerFaire!), we needed to change permissions on the machine connected to the Modela by going into usr/bin/dev and we did a sudo chmod 777 ttyS0 We had sent several jobs to the Modela and to kill i...

  • Posted On May 14, 2010
  • BY fabiola

Thursday's Plan

* Search for sign shops on El Cajon Blvd. * Email Mobile Active contact about setting up teleconference on Tuesday * Email BecauseWeCan Robert Edwards about LED kit * Mill out Switch/LED circuit board and go through the steps with TJ * Document mesh netwo...

  • Posted On May 14, 2010
  • BY fabiola

Mesh Network Links

– This design team has developped mesh networking systems for the US military, check out the applications and technology page for different ideas. MD4455 Mobile Node with Mobility Scanner – The LocustWorld All-In-One Flasher contains a windows...

  • Posted On May 14, 2010
  • BY fabiola

Mesh Network Findings

We set out to do some research on cell-phone mesh networking to be used in emergencies/catastrophes when cell antennas are down and communicating becomes critical as it was on 9/11 and during Katrina. Mesh Networking works through connecting nodes, it hop...

  • Posted On May 14, 2010
  • BY fabiola

Laser Cutting Madness

We’ve been troubleshooting with the laser cutter and working with Illustrator in Windows, instead of sending our files through CAD in ubuntu. Our first problem was working with a file that was exactly the size of the laser cutter bed. The laser was ...

  • Posted On May 14, 2010
  • BY fabiola

One piece cardboard eyeglasses holder

Hi folks, Here’s an eyeglasses holder created from one piece of cardboard. It can be folded along lines to make a 3-D holder. http://www.headsonfire.org/community/sites/default/files/flat_eyeglasses_holder.jpg http://www.headsonfire.org/community/si...