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Things that are technical in nature

Arduino meetup in NYC

A group of us from HackPittsburgh (Matt S., Marty, Mandy, and I) took an action-packed trip up to NYC this weekend to attend the Arduino Meetup, and got to visit Adafruit Industries, ITP, NYC Resistor, and Alpha One Labs. Thanks … Continue reading

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Building a MidiVox

Collin sent me a pre-release sample of his MidiVox kit to try out, so I dutifully soldered it up, and then proceeded to have some fun with :-). It’s a cool little add-on shield for the Arduino, consisting of a … Continue reading

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Stepping stylishly

Extended the controller to handle all three drive axis, so now we can draw some things. Here is what came out: Props to Matt S. for gently reminding me that this doesn’t require a super complex system, and that some … Continue reading

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Building an Atari Punk Console kit

Matt, Andy and I built our Atari Punk Console kits tonight, so that we are ready for Synth Night 2 at Hack Pittsburgh. Hope to see you there! Video encoding deets after the break.

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Old project: Intellaboy, a portable Intellivision

Here’s a project I made back in 2006: a portable Intellivision. I took a cheapo LCD TV and combined it with a 25-in-1 Intellivision game toy, and managed to cram the whole thing into the shell of a broken gameboy. … Continue reading

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Aluminum shaft with captive ring

Lathe experiment #2, machined out of a piece of solid aluminum rod. Basically, the ring is stuck because it was carved out of the rod. A collaboration with Matt Stultz.

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Wooden gavel

I’ve decided to take a new direction with my art, so I created this wood gavel. Hope you enjoy it! Actually, we just set up the donated lathe at Hack Pittsburgh, so this was a quickie project to try it … Continue reading

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