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In his book Fab: The Coming Revolution on Your Desktop--from Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication, Neil Gershenfeld asked us to "consider what would happen if the physical world outside computers was as malleable as the digital world inside computers... with technology better reflecting the needs and wishes of its users because it has been developed by and for its users.". While practicing architecture was in many ways a journey towards realizing that potential, I was inspired to take a step back and investigate critical ideas of advanced digital fabrication difficult to engage from within the profession.
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- Eagle : Export PCBs quickly with this script | 2018 Sep 24
- Environmental monitoring with online data logging to Thingsv | 2018 Mar 31
- Distributed Version Control : GIT | 2018 Feb 14
- Inventory | 2017 Jun 28
- Hessian/ burlap/ crocus composites | 2017 Jun 28
Exporting image files for milling PCBs is a tedious operation. Fortunately, Eagle has a built-in scripting interface. Customized scripts, spanning multitudes of operations, can be launched from the file menu. The following script, based on this one, will output two PNGs, one for traces and the other for the outline and holes. The PNGs can then be coverted to milling tool paths via Fab Modules. DISPLAY ALL; RATSNEST; DISPLAY None; DISPLAY Top Pads Vias; SET DISPLAY_MODE NODRILL; SET PAD_NAMES OFF; SET PALETTE BLACK; EXPORT IMAGE /*/pcb_traces.png MONOCHROME 1500; DISPLAY None; SET DISPLAY_MODE REAL; DISPLAY Pads; EXPORT IMAGE /*/pcb_outline.png MONOCHROME 1500;...
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#electronics
#pureImagination
#microCode
#comm
Over the past few months, I have continued to develop the electronics and programming aspects of this project. I now have a system for evualating power potential and environmental sensing, and logging all that data online to Things Speak, an open Internet of Things Platform. Previous to using Things Speak, I was logging data to an SD card. However, with an SD card, I need to periodically pull the data from the card. Extra work. Using Things Speak, the data is available to me and everyone else instantly, everywhere. There have been some issues with wifi stability and internet connectivity...
Git is an actively maintained, free and open source, distributed version control system originally developed in 2005 by Linus Torvalds (Linux). Distributed version control systems help software development teams collaborate on projects' source code by maintaining a full history of file changes across a decentralized file system. The distributed architecture maintains a full history of all changes in every developer's local working directory, aka repository. Redundancy. Git is flexible. Git works across all platforms, supports branching and tagging as first class citizens and operations within, such as merging or reverting. Open sites such as GitHub or GitLab are fantastic for...
Following is a list of prices and quantities for the second prototype Pure Imagination build. Many of the materials, ie. acrylic, electronics were donated to the project from the fablab, others as part of the Fab Academy inventory/ session resources. For those materials, I checked online sources. The most expensive parts of the build are the chemical components and, shockingly, the silicone for the concrete mold. The silicone mold survives however, and that price would "decrease" with each successive cast. The bioelectrochemical system needs to be optimized for electricity output and material cost, perhaps alternative materials could be found for...
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To make the composite surface, I will combine hessian with a two-part resin which takes about thirty minutes to set and five hours to cure. This job is messy business and I did not have gloves or time to get gloves. That was a bad idea, first, not many photos. Second, the resin gets very hot in just a few minutes, trial by fire. Finally, it is nearly impossible to get off your hands. After countless soapings, I resorted to scrubbing my hands with coarse hair brush/ soap combo and then wearing (different) gloves for the next few hours because...
Pure Imagination
My ambition is to make an energy harvesting system using biological photovoltaics as an exhibition work to bring attention to clean possibilities for sourcing energy and the fact that we need [wildness] nature more than it needs humans.
- Environmental monitoring with online data logging to Thingsv | 2018 Mar 31
- Inventory | 2017 Jun 28
- Hessian/ burlap/ crocus composites | 2017 Jun 28
- CNC milled wood frame | 2017 Jun 28
- Grow monitors | What watches the watchers? | 2017 Jun 14
- Grow module | Design and fabrication | 2017 Jun 13
- Grow Module | The science | 2017 May 31
- Processing Light Graph | 2017 May 24
- Milling a composite mold | 2017 May 12
- Composites : Modular growth, testing | 2017 May 09
- Bio-electro-chemistry | 2017 May 03
- Bioelectrochemical testing pod | 2017 Apr 25
- LCD x Arduino | 2017 Apr 06
- Precedents | 2017 Mar 10
- Discussion | 2017 Feb 10
- Design, Materials and Methods | 2017 Feb 08
- History : Early concepts | 2017 Feb 01
dìshūBot
dìshūBot, a water calligraphy device inspired by the modern Chinese custom of painting calligraphy on public sidewalks with a water brush, a “practice [that] corresponds to both a socializing need and an individual search for self accomplishment or improvement” (Francois Chastanet). Fabricated at FablabO in Shanghai, dìshūBot is a composition of 3D printed and laser cut materials and employs a combination of stepper motors, a pump, Arduino and a custom G-code transcoder to endlessly trace passages composed of «hanzi» that slowly disappear as water evaporate. This is a work in progress. Following are links directly to specific sections of ongoing development:
- Chinese calligraphy G-code encoder | 2017 May 17
- Prototyping the infinity axis | 2017 Apr 23
- Prototyping a belt axis | 2017 Apr 23
- Prototyping the effector | 2017 Apr 22
- Fabricating a gestalt stage | 2017 Apr 04
- Machine precedents | 2017 Mar 27
All posts categorically...
- Project management, documentation and communication
- Distributed Version Control : GIT | 2018 Feb 14
- HyperText Markup Language : HTML | 2017 Feb 08
- Cascading Style Sheets : CSS | 2017 Feb 08
- Computer-aided design and 3-D scanning
- Bioelectrochemical testing pod | 2017 Apr 25
- Unravel : Mysteries, preparing a design to test 2-D milling | 2017 Mar 14
- Three dimensional scanning wildCardboard | 2017 Mar 01
- Grasshopper Parametric Modeling | 2017 Feb 15
- Fusion 360, introduction | 2017 Feb 11
- Rhinoceros (for 2D things) | 2017 Feb 08
- Antimony, introduction | 2017 Feb 07
- Computer-controlled cutting
- CNC milled wood frame | 2017 Jun 28
- Bio-electro-chemistry | 2017 May 03
- Wild Cardboard : Fabbing, Branching, Versioning | 2017 Feb 15
- Vinyl cutting, introduction | 2017 Feb 15
- Kerf : what is it? why is it? why care? | 2017 Feb 11
- Darth Cthulhu, tempting the darkside with lasers | 2017 Feb 11
- Subtractive manufacturing
- Star puzzle : Child's play? | 2017 Apr 25
- Testing constraint : machining materiality | 2017 Mar 16
- Molding, casting and composites
- Hessian/ burlap/ crocus composites | 2017 Jun 28
- Grow module | Design and fabrication | 2017 Jun 13
- Milling a composite mold | 2017 May 12
- Composites : Modular growth, testing | 2017 May 09
- Liquid plastic : Smooth-Cast 300 Series | 2017 Apr 26
- ...Oomoo... | 2017 Apr 26
- Additive manufacturing
- Mathematica model..? (no) | 2017 Mar 01
- Performance testing MakerBot Replicator II | 2017 Feb 25
- Electronics production
- Eagle : Export PCBs quickly with this script | 2018 Sep 24
- Grow monitors | What watches the watchers? | 2017 Jun 14
- Networking light : Twin PCB | 2017 May 16
- Phototransistor breakout board | 2017 May 01
- EAGLE pt2 : Fabricating the circuit board | 2017 Apr 07
- Fabricating, wiring, learning | 2017 Apr 06
- LCD ATTiny44 PCB | 2017 Apr 06
- EAGLE pt1 : Designing a circuit board | 2017 Feb 25
- Stuffing a circuit board | 2017 Feb 25
- Milling a circuit board | 2017 Feb 20
- Embedded programming
- Environmental monitoring with online data logging to Thingsv | 2018 Mar 31
- Grow monitors | What watches the watchers? | 2017 Jun 14
- LCD x Arduino | 2017 Apr 06
- Programming "Hello to the World" with C | 2017 Apr 06
- Breathing light : An arduino experiment | 2017 Mar 22
- Datasheet Atmel ATtiny24/44/84 | 2017 Mar 21
- Echo : Programming.c | 2017 Mar 20
- Programming a programmer | 2017 Feb 25
- Arduino IDE, introduction | 2017 Feb 25
- Networking and communication
- Environmental monitoring with online data logging to Thingsv | 2018 Mar 31
- Infrared networking | 2017 May 25
- Testing the electrical components of the IR network twins | 2017 May 23
- Application and interface programming
- Fireflies and grasshoppers. | 2017 Jun 02
- Processing Light Graph | 2017 May 24
- Processing : coming around. | 2017 May 24
- Machine design
- Chinese calligraphy G-code encoder | 2017 May 17
- Prototyping the infinity axis | 2017 Apr 23
- Prototyping a belt axis | 2017 Apr 23
- Prototyping the effector | 2017 Apr 22
- Fabricating a gestalt stage | 2017 Apr 04
- Machine precedents | 2017 Mar 27
- Science
- Grow Module | The science | 2017 May 31
- Precedents | 2017 Mar 10
- Discussion | 2017 Feb 10
- Design, Materials and Methods | 2017 Feb 08
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