Re: [PDXHS] Hi I'm new, who's doing what here?

[benjamin barber]

P.S. I suggest using stepper motors with hall effect sensors

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:26 AM, benjamin barber <starw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I might be willing to do some programming, if the project and team
> person is of the right variety.
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I moved to Hillsboro from NYC ~3 months ago. I haven't found electronics supply stores here yet, though I know Fry's is 45 minutes away, that's pretty darn far for the once in a while wire or pin header.
>>
>> How active is the space? The home page hasn't been touched in months, and it looks like the calendar is full but that it's just repeating the same events.
>>
>> I thought there was someone interested in DIYbio in Portland at a hackerspace, they came around ##hplusroadmap on freenode or DIYbio google group a while ago... maybe that was a different hackerspace?
>>
>> Does anyone there do generally science-related stuff? Anyone interested in that stuff?
>>
>> I am into biotech, biochemical engineering, MEMS, micro and nano tech, electronics, programming, and a little machining/fabricating work
>>
>> I want to make a DIY microphotolithography system using a DLP projector pointing into the eyepiece of a microscope, and add a camera in the other eyepiece for aligning adjacent exposures, and servos or steppers on the X and Y stage knobs
>>
>> Would anyone be interested in working on this with me?

[benjamin barber]

[Pete Skeggs]

You're close to one actually. Check out SurplusGizmos on Cornelius Pass Rd. just north of 26. Some new stuff but obviously more that is not.

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From: Nathan McCorkle
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Subject: [PDXHS] Hi I'm new, who's doing what here?

[Aaron Eiche]

Nathan, I can't offer much about BrainSilo - I haven't spent much time there. We do have several communities in the area that are active: 

DorkbotPDX (http://dorkbotpdx.org

PARTS (http://www.portlandrobotics.org/)

Print 3DPDX (https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/print3dpdx)

There's naturally a lot of overlap with folks. Welcome to the Portland area. It's a wonderful place :)

[Ben Porter]

For electronics, you might check this place out:

http://www.oregon-electronics.com/x/home.php

I went there when they were "norvac", and they had decent stuff - but not always the cheapest prices (obviously ordering from mouser/digikey is going to be cheaper, but then you have to pay shipping and wait a week).

[Nathan McCorkle]

I also have the openSpectrometer.com project, this is stalled because
I was thinking about how to best mount all the optics in a fashion
that would work in kit form, or that someone inexperienced with optics
could put it together and not have a horribly out-of-whack optics path
(little alignment issues can make a device like this not perform well
at all)

For that project I need some help with mechanical drawing and 3D CAD
modelling. I think I could prototype the optics system with 3D printed
plastic, and if it works, possibly raise funding to get an injection
mold.

Software on that would be some pattern recognition/matching stuff
(matching the spectral signature of a standard within a mixture, or
comparing two samples to see if they both contain a known signature)

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:26 AM, benjamin barber <starw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I might be willing to do some programming, if the project and team
> person is of the right variety.

Good to know

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-Nathan

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Ben Porter <xenov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For electronics, you might check this place out:
>
> http://www.oregon-electronics.com/x/home.php

nice, didn't find this one on google

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-Nathan

[Nathan McCorkle]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Pete Skeggs <plsk...@noeticdesign.com> wrote:

> You're close to one actually. Check out SurplusGizmos on Cornelius Pass Rd.
> just north of 26. Some new stuff but obviously more that is not.

Thanks!

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-Nathan