Activities this Saturday: Mr. Bones and Raspberry Jam

[Andy Gelme]

hi All,

The full-size human skeleton for Marita's Mr.Bones project arrived
today. I'll bring it along tonight.
The decoration and interactive automation can begin in earnest this
Saturday morning during the morning session.
We've got roughly all of August to get it done.
Marita has some specific design criteria (Google Doc) and we've got a
modest budget.

The Raspberry Jam will begin around 1:30 pm ...
http://www.meetup.com/Melbourne-Raspberry-Jam # R.S.V.P

Will be a fun day !

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[Andy Gelme]

hi All,

Last week, the skeleton for the Mr.Bones project was unpacked and assembled.
And, tentatively given the name "Polly".

There have also been some discussions about the various mechanisms,
including gears inside the chest and arm/leg movement.

I've acquired a couple of spray cans of pink fluorescent paint for tomorrow.

I've also got the parts so that we can begin prototyping ...

- Capacitive sensing using alfoil:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Main/CapSense

- Servo control of the head and jawbone.

- Red LEDs for the eyes.

- MP3 audio output (using the same hardware as George's Guerrilla Tag
project).

[George Patterson]

On 10 August 2012 13:06, Andy Gelme <an...@geekscape.org> wrote:
> hi All,
>
Hi Andy,

>
> - MP3 audio output (using the same hardware as George's Guerrilla Tag
> project).

Note: if Andy is referring to the Winbond/Novoton/(whatever they call
themselves these days) ISD17150 chipset and demo board that I think he
is, they don't use MP3, instead you record the waveform directly to
the chip from an analogue sound source. MP3 does have a latency
associated with reading and decoding the file before playing it..
Might not be noticeable unless there is a visual cue with the audio
which suggests that the audio is out of sync.

Regards


George

[Andy Gelme]

hi All,

On 2012-08-10 13:06 , Andy Gelme wrote:
> Last week, the skeleton for the Mr.Bones project was unpacked and assembled.
> And, tentatively given the name "Polly".

Last week, Polly was painted bright pink (and now looks like an extra
from Mars Attacks). A little bit of paint touch-up is required.

She'll need to be re-assembled as the first task.

On Tuesday, JohnS dropped off a collection of wooden gears that can be
used in Polly's chest cavity. Some experimentation will be required.
Thanks John.

I've got alfoil and electronics parts for playing with capacitive
(touch) sensing.

We should also make a start on the head / jawbone movement, flashing LED
eyes and the audio output.

Starting at 11 am, there will be a one hour programming / electronics
workshop for young hackers.

[James Walker]

The wiki needs updating - I've no idea who Polly is :)

On that topic, is any help needed in getting it back together?

Is there a need for a hosting site, or is it mainly just recovering lost content?

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[George Patterson]

On 17 August 2012 15:15, James Walker <james.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The wiki needs updating - I've no idea who Polly is :)
>

Thanks for volunteering. :-D

> On that topic, is any help needed in getting it back together?
> Is there a need for a hosting site, or is it mainly just recovering lost
> content?

The hosting has been sorted and is working well from what I have heard and seen.

The main required activity is adding back the content. Create yourself
a user and start hacking the documentation. :-)

Regards


George

[James Walker]

Happy to volunteer, but I'm quite new and thus have absolutely no idea what the current projects are/missing content is, as I never saw the wiki before its crash.

Maybe one of the net archive sites has it, I'll hunt around.

George

[ttamarillos]

Hi Polly! Can't wait to meet you. 

And hi all,

a few weeks ago I left a baby and a yellow truck inside a transparent box on the shelf at the space, labeled "Tintin & Ken". As I'm now overseas I'm not gonna appear at the space until next month. 

So, in case you need to cannibalise the baby and the truck for Polly – or for anyone else from the likes of Mars Attack that needs to be created or modified – please feel free to use our baby and our truck. (Ken's gone back where he belongs and I'm sure he wouldn't mind.) 

The baby is at the moment cable-remote-controlled. S/he gurgles and s/he has some kind of sensor on her/his head. The truck's just yellow and cute, perhaps feeling a bit blue and missing its remote control. It has some kind of a lightbulb on its head. Both has some kind of gear/sprocket mechanism. 

Have fun, 

Tintin

[Stuart Young]

On 18 August 2012 09:24, James Walker <james.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Happy to volunteer, but I'm quite new and thus have absolutely no idea what
> the current projects are/missing content is, as I never saw the wiki before
> its crash.
>
> Maybe one of the net archive sites has it, I'll hunt around.

Definitely feel free to look around, but we scoured the Internet
Wayback machine and Google to re-create what we have.

One thing of course is that adding NEW content is also "a good thing"
and something that many people seem to not really be interested in
doing with projects, so creating new docs is always welcomed.

--
Stuart Young (aka Cefiar)

[Zac Watts]

In addition to the wiki documentation, is it worth setting up a CCHS blog? Getting a blog post linked to via hackaday/MAKE/adafruit/land similar large maker/hacker blogs may be a good way of raising awareness of the groups existence to local people in melb, and there could be a greater emphasis on pictures/video on a blog, rather than more technical wiki stuff, so might be good to help people reaching the website understand exactly what people in the group actually do.

Anyways, just a thought.

[Stuart Young]

I know the Committee has discussed the blog idea before, but the usual
issue is getting someone to actually do it.

On 18 August 2012 15:47, Zac Watts <zwa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In addition to the wiki documentation, is it worth setting up a CCHS blog?
> Getting a blog post linked to via hackaday/MAKE/adafruit/land similar large
> maker/hacker blogs may be a good way of raising awareness of the groups
> existence to local people in melb, and there could be a greater emphasis on
> pictures/video on a blog, rather than more technical wiki stuff, so might be
> good to help people reaching the website understand exactly what people in
> the group actually do.
>
> Anyways, just a thought.