Kit Posters

[Jud Taylor]

I still have a copy of the Atari Punk Console poster from last year, and have created posters for items on the Google spreadsheet for:

LOL White

LOL Blue

LOL plus Arduino Clone

Lanterns Bulk

Open Heart

Diavolino

FTDI

TV B Gone

TV B Gone SIGNED! BY MITCH!

12V USB Charger

THS Badge

They are in PPT format.  

Deal with that.

If anyone can explain how to upload them to google docs (single syllable words are best) I'll do so.

Or, If anyone wants me to mail copies, I can do that.

Or, if it is OK, I can just mail a zip file to this list.

Jud

[AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai]

Are these all "For sale" items through "THS"?

as I would like to know more...

if you can open drive.google.com and use the upload button once you  sign in and update your google docs storage...
you should be able to share the ppt from there

Belxjander

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[Jud Taylor]

I have uploaded the posters.

Please view and comment relevantly.

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-NjVxQ01LR0hNSFU

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-RWo0WlBqWFlMWFk

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-U2JMR0tfcDlJcGs

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-VVBCTE51TVlURnc

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-Z3NnaGFmVl9qdjA

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-ZjJ0OEtqRFY5NzQ

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-bFJsakVIR1RiSGc

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-dEJkZ1IwRG8zYTg

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B147cpV0xIG-ejlLTmtEYlhnNGM

Best Regards,

Jud

[MRE]

Nicely done!

A few points:
* Something weird happens with the prices. It shows up like "\2000" I assume this is the yen kanji conversion issue? Is it fine on your end?
* I will try to post related photos from the respective sites this week.
* Do we have room for Japanese as well?
* Id be interested in the raw files (or at least PDF) so that I can put together a slideshow. It still have dreams of hacking one of the old iBooks.

[MRE]

Sorry Jud,

can we change the THS image to something like:

[Richard Frankum]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, MRE <epre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nicely done!

Indeed, thanks very much Jud!

> A few points:
> * Something weird happens with the prices. It shows up like "\2000" I assume
> this is the yen kanji conversion issue? Is it fine on your end?

The backslash/yen sign is a JIS standard issue that isn't related to
kanji. It would work better if
1) we used kanji, either the yen sign 円 or the full-width yen mark ￥
2) we just hand-drew it in.

> * I will try to post related photos from the respective sites this week.
> * Do we have room for Japanese as well?

I was thinking again that this would be easily hand-written on the
signs after they're printed.
Jud, did you talk to Otoshi-san about writing Japanese copy?

I like the QR code addition. :)

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[MRE]

Atari punk console

[Torsten Wagner]

If you are going to display all of them as a poster wall e.g., behind the table,  you might could attach a real sample on each poster.  Esp. for the kits with some blinking stuff that would create a real eye catcher. 
For this it would be best to glue the posters on some foam boards allowing to stick a pcb board to it too and drill some holes for power cables etc. 

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[Richard Frankum]

Hi Jeremy,

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:13 PM, AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai
<belxj...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Are these all "For sale" items through "THS"?
>
> as I would like to know more...

They are kits that we have for sale at the space. If you're interested
in purchasing any, you can let me know or ask on the list.

We'll be selling the kits at the Maker Faire in December. An inventory
of what we have can be found here:
http://bit.ly/HGoAMA

--Richard

> Belxjander
>
> On Nov 16, 2012 4:26 PM, "Jud Taylor" <jud.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I still have a copy of the Atari Punk Console poster from last year, and
>> have created posters for items on the Google spreadsheet for:
>>
>> LOL White
>> LOL Blue
>> LOL plus Arduino Clone
>> Lanterns Bulk
>> Open Heart
>> Diavolino
>> FTDI
>> TV B Gone
>> TV B Gone SIGNED! BY MITCH!
>> 12V USB Charger
>> THS Badge
>>
>> They are in PPT format.
>>
>>
>> Deal with that.
>>
>>
>>
>> If anyone can explain how to upload them to google docs (single syllable
>> words are best) I'll do so.
>>
>> Or, If anyone wants me to mail copies, I can do that.
>>
>> Or, if it is OK, I can just mail a zip file to this list.
>>
>> Jud

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[Jud Taylor]

I have attached the PDF of the Atari Punk Console kit.

Please view it, to see if the yen mark is correct.  If so, I'll PDF the other posters for review. In any case, except for the Atari Punk Console sheet, I'll probably just print straight from PowerPoint, to sidestep the Yen mark issue.

Does anyone know where the sample Atari Punk Console is? We could stick it on the poster.

I costed lamination.  250 yen per A3, so 2250 so far.

Will these be hung from the table cage?  or should we make stands for the posters?

I have some spare 100 yen shop wire meshes that might be useful on the cage.  But might not look cool.

Could anyone translate the posters into Japanese?

I'll work on updating the graphics, and on finally writing my "Intro to THS" text.

Best,

Jud

[Richard Frankum]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jud Taylor <jud.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have attached the PDF of the Atari Punk Console kit.

The yen mark comes out fine on my machine, but the "THS logo" and "THS
URL" are obviously an earlier edit.

> Please view it, to see if the yen mark is correct. If so, I'll PDF the
> other posters for review. In any case, except for the Atari Punk Console
> sheet, I'll probably just print straight from PowerPoint, to sidestep the
> Yen mark issue.

And make sure you check after printing, sometimes the yen mark is a
printer issue as well!

> Does anyone know where the sample Atari Punk Console is? We could stick it
> on the poster.

It's in our "cool samples" box, the clear plastic container on the
shelf above your member box. I last saw it behind the "stickers and
swag" box.

> I'll work on updating the graphics, and on finally writing my "Intro to THS"
> text.

Thanks Jud!

> Jud

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[Torsten Wagner]

Just as a side-note:

I guess the secret for the Yen mark and PDF is to embed whatever font you using into the PDF, otherwise the font gets silently replaced by a similar installed font, which might or might not contain the Yen character in the font set.

This is a rather well known problem for submitting camera-ready manuscripts to journals and conferences.

The solution is to always embed the font. Your PDF generator should have this as an option.

Some printer drivers have a similar mechanism. In that case you want to tell the printer to print graphically and to not replace fonts by printer system fonts. 

Totti

> Jud

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[Jud Taylor]

I just uploaded a new version of the APC poster, with MRE's suggested new graphics.

Dunno.  Maybe too busy.

If we translate the posters into Japanese (which I think is common sense, since we are in Japan), maybe we could translate the "Can I borrow a cup of Robots" into colloquial Japanese.

Questions Still Open:

Will these posters be hung from the table cage?  

Or, should we make stands for the posters?

Are my 100 yen store wire meshes (white steel wire, approx 3cm (METRIC!) between wires, desired for use on the cage?

Anyone willing to translate the posters into Japanese?

Best, 

Jud

> Jud

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[Jud Taylor]

Did the Yen mark look OK on your PC, Torsten?

[Jud Taylor]

I'll do test run this evening to see if the PDF (which looks correct on my laptop) prints correctly at Kinkos.

I bet it will.  I printed last year's APC poster there.

[Torsten Wagner]

Yup it does.

Make sure you safe it in exact the size your are going to print it, to avoid quality loose due to up-scaling. Many of the stuff in a PDF is vector based, that would scale well up and down. However, if you add graphics and you designed it lets say to be A4 and later print it A0, all your images look pixelated and blurry... If you want them A0, create them A0, scaling a larger size down to get e.g., A4 hand-outs, is not that big issue.

If you want go 100% safe, carry a set of files as PNG with you to the printer.  No compression artifacts and being pure graphic, there is little chance that the printer or anything in between can mess things up. However, they might be large and the printer has munch a lot of data slowing down the printing process.

Totti

[MRE]

Might talk to lauren on lamination. She has one. Might be good to get a ths lam machine at some point.

Wire mesh: short answer yes. Long answer: next week kalin will bring the parts, and we will know more about sizing and how many we need.

Ill try to buy a bag of hooks and pegs for it this weekend.

Btw, set up some rack in my work zone at home. Very happy with it.

Posters will go on towers, table and wherever. So, id say a4 size is fine. Ill bring a hole punch so we can hang on the rack or tie with string, or float with balloons.

[lauren shannon]

you can use my laminator!

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you can use my laminator!

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:20 PM, MRE <epre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Might talk to lauren on lamination. She has one. Might be good to get a ths lam machine at some point.
>
> Wire mesh: short answer yes. Long answer: next week kalin will bring the parts, and we will know more about sizing and how many we need.
>
> Ill try to buy a bag of hooks and pegs for it this weekend.
>
> Btw, set up some rack in my work zone at home. Very happy with it.
>
> Posters will go on towers, table and wherever. So, id say a4 size is fine. Ill bring a hole punch so we can hang on the rack or tie with string, or  float with balloons.
>
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[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

Hi,

Dead busy and no prospects of getting any better; flying to HKG on
Monday, back - on Friday.

>> Wire mesh: short answer yes. Long answer: next week kalin will bring the
>> parts, and we will know more about sizing and how many we need.
>>

I checked the pipe/parts at home, I have enough pipe (6.5m) and most
of the connectors, will need to buy a few more at my local D2.
However I am really desperate for time and not sure when will I be
able to bring the stuff to THS.

Anyone with a car that can fit 130cm pipes willing to transport it? I
can arrange someone to be at home most any time this/next week.
Alternatively, I can test/build something myself and bring it directly
to Make on Saturday.

I am pretty confident we can hack it in place, no need for pre-flight test.

Kalin.

[Jud Taylor]

The test was basically successful.  I printed out the PDF and PPT versions of the 12V DC Charger poster.  

The Yen symbol printed correctly from both file types.

The graphics at the bottom of the page looked fine.

For some reason, the text on one version used a slightly different font size, or the graphics were handled a little differently.  Text on one was

Only

￥2000

Whereas on the other the text came out

Only 

￥200

0

I'll fix that.

The posters are currently sized A3, but of course I (or anyone, really) could print them A4.

Note:  test conducted in greyscale.

Regarding lamination, my options are:

1. No lamination, no nothing.  Use tape or wire or resistors to stabilize.

2. Glue the posters to a backing material.  Either needs backing material that does not deform by absorbing water, or needs non-water adhesive.

3.  Lamination at Kinkos. Again, 

4.  I'll mail or hand-deliver, on Tuesday at the Hackerspace, posters to Lauren.

5.  The lamination machine visits the Hackerspace next Tuesday.

6.  Lauren or somebody else with a laminator prints and laminates the posters.  This takes advantage of the modern wizardry of innertubes. There is a website that esplains this majic.

Questions that remain not fully answered:

0.  Anyone willing to translate the posters into Japanese?

1.  Will these posters be hung from the table cage?  

Is there a diagram of the cage, or a set of dimensions?

2.  Or, should we make stands for the posters?  

Or we could tape them hanging from the table.  Not optimal for visibility.

3.  Are my 100 yen store wire meshes (white steel wire, approx 3cm (METRIC!) between wires, desired for use on the cage?  

I'll try to remember to bring the wire mesh to the space.

MRE, all posters are now in PDF format and available at the drive.google.com, so as to for enable the constructionment of your show of slides.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

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[MRE]

Kalin,

Ok.
Only question:
Can you give us a good idea of the distance between the two front facing vertical pipes, and the height.
We will need some idea of how big the wire mesh needs to be.
From that, we can buy all the other stuff, and join forces there at MAKE.

Emery

[Kalin KOZHUHAROV]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 10:04 PM, MRE <epre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can you give us a good idea of the distance between the two front facing
> vertical pipes, and the height.
> We will need some idea of how big the wire mesh needs to be.
>

We can pretty much make it any size with the pipe cutter ;-)

Using the angle (HJ-2), the outside size of the angle will be (35+16.5
+ pipe1) x (35+16.5 + pipe2), assuming pipe1=pipe2=250 (about half
the table depth), we'll have a triangle with about 1.4*300 or 420 x
300 x 300. If we assume 600 for height of the frame, then you'll need
a mesh of about 420x600 (x2 pieces).

http://www.diy-life.net/parts/metal-joint/index.html#hj2

That said, it will be easier to mount with tie-wraps if the mesh is
slightly bigger than the frame.

I guess, just buy 2 or 3 mesh plates of about 40-50cm x 50-65cm and
we'll make the frame to fit.
Send me the exact distance between the end rods of the narrow side
(inside), so I can try to per-calculate the pipe sizes.

We'll need also hooks (or wire wraps) and tie-wraps (for some reason I
have mostly black at home, I guess white will be better) and may be
some clamps (I just tried the 110mm ones I have and they actually work
very good, so just bring the ones we have at THS (orange/black)) and
some anti-slip mat works wonders (I'll bring).

Kalin.

[lauren shannon]

if you send me what I need to print and laminate I am happy to do it.
Lauren

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[MRE]

Kalin,

Ill get some from the 100 yen shop this weekend.