> For my own amusement I have an order of reed switches and LEDs on its way
> from sparkfun to make a small prototype. Hopefully they'll be here by
> Monday.

> It occurred to me that making the chime end of the light chimes could be
> an application for 3D printing... but I have zero experience there.
> Other ideas: tiny bottles or jars, like spice containers?

> I'm in for the hack day.
> Let's decide soon if we're meeting Monday the 9th, or the 16th?

> Tim

> On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:34 AM, Georgia Guthrie <geor...@thehacktory.org>
> wrote:

> > Hi guys,
> > I just added the hackathon date and info to our website. We're still
> > on for this, right? Sean and PJ, are you promoting it to Hive people?
> > I can post it on the free calendars and stuff for Philly events.
> > Also, were we planning to meet again before the hack day, like next
> > Monday?

> > -Georgia

> > On Dec 14 2011, 8:28 pm, Stephanie Alarcon <steph.alar...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> (Sean, cc:ing you b/c I'm not sure whether you're on the hacktory list
> >> yet or not)

> >> Brian, Tim and PJ, thanks so much for your detailed responses!  Here's a
> >> summary of Monday's meeting (PJ, Georgia, Steph) AND we're proposing a
> >> workday in hackathon format (i.e., whatever we want to do) on Saturday,
> >> January 21, about 10-4.  Does that date work for everyone?

> >> The plan for the PAFA event on March 8 is to do some combination of the
> >> following:

> >> 1) Light up bulbs with weird sources of energy
> >> 2) Control light or sound with gestures or numbers of people
> >> 3) Let people draw under different light conditions that mimic the
> >> introduction of artificial light
> >> 4) Light chimes if it's fun and if we have time

> >> We may end up cutting one or more projects, but at this point we have
> >> enough info to start testing.  We need parts and work time, which is
> >> where a hack day comes in.  A loose plan for the day:

> >> 1)  1) Light up bulbs with weird sources of energy
> >>         This is based on the model train campfire idea, where we think
> it's
> >> possible to light a tiny bulb with the signal from a radio.  Tim tried
> >> this by connecting the phono leads of a radio tuned to an AM station to
> >> a transformer and led and was able to make this work.
> >>         On the topic of making invisible things visible, PJ made a
> simple EMF
> >> detector here:http://youtu.be/4B1CAKQwlyw based on this project:
> http://www.aaronalai.com/emf-detector.  In the quest to build a cell
> >> phone signal detector (http://mix-engineering.com/), my friend Sophi
> >> found a kind of crackpot device called the Cell Sensor.  She says that
> >> it beeps like crazy if you wave it around a room, but it's a slightly
> >> interesting toy for $25 bucks.

> >> Todo:  Try the light bulb thing and any other interesting signal
> >> detection toys, pick one and decide how to make it pretty and fun.

> >> Parts:  LEDs, transformers, radio, wire and resistors, Arduino, maybe a
> >> Cell Sensor.

> >> 2) Control light or sound with gestures or numbers of people
> >>         This is where the theremin idea comes in.  Sean and PJ made a
> thing
> >> (with Open Frameworks, I assume) which detects a blog on a webcam and
> >> plays a square (?) wave it different pitches depending on where the blog
> >> is.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjbScdvj42M&feature=youtu.be Sean
> >> also made a very simple synth in html5.  Georgia is possibly interested
> >> in trying this in Processing.

> >> Todo: Try these ideas in Open Framework and Processing, pick one and
> >> make it pretty and fun.

> >> Parts:  computer and webcam.

> >> 3)  Let people draw under different light conditions that mimic the
> >> introduction of artificial light
> >>         This is easy.  We just need some LED candles and lamps of
> appropriate
> >> strength and verification from Monica that we can make a dark space.

> >> Todo:  Give it a try in a dark space.  Figure out which LED candles
> >> would realistically mimic candlelight.

> >> Parts:  LED candles, dark fabric maybe?

> >> 4) Light chimes

> >> Tim did some reading and experimenting and found that turning lights on
> >> and off with reed switches would be the most cost effective and is
> >> pretty easy.  PJ suggested trying  spring switches, like in Jack's Lazer
> >> Dice.  http://www.lazerdice.com/

> >> Todo:  try it a couple of ways, maybe starting from Tim's experiments,
> >> or just build from his work.  Figure out what the casing for the LEDs
> >> would be.  We know from the giant pin art board that though that sounds
> >> like a small hurdle, if we can't solve it early it may turn into a big
> >> pain in the butt.

> >> Parts:  LEDs, magnets, switches, some metal rods or dowels, some paper
> >> or fabric.

> >> Sound good as a start?  I'll need help putting together a more detailed
> >> shopping list.  PJ, can you get dibs on Hive for that Saturday?

> >> Thanks everybody!!

> >> Steph