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Jen Strover

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May 11, 2013, 1:32:23 AM5/11/13
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Many of you will have seen me working on a cross-stitched resistor chart to hang in the space. Good news, it's finally finished! Picture here:

http://i.imgur.com/L1sqW2f.jpg

The piece is just under A4 size. Would anyone like to make a frame for it? Email me directly if you're interested.

Thanks,

Jen.

April Staines

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May 11, 2013, 1:41:24 AM5/11/13
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Thats BRILLIANT!


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Michael Sullivan

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May 11, 2013, 1:53:20 AM5/11/13
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Amazing!!

April Staines

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May 11, 2013, 1:54:59 AM5/11/13
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We should print the frame using conductive plastic...  apparently its quite resistive 

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Richie Cyngler

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May 11, 2013, 1:57:38 AM5/11/13
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That is ohmazing!
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May 11, 2013, 2:10:01 AM5/11/13
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Beautiful, funny, and useful...really impressed. :)


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Joshua Mesilane

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May 11, 2013, 2:27:02 AM5/11/13
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That's frickin' AWESOME

Do you take orders?

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Luke Weston

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May 11, 2013, 3:17:14 AM5/11/13
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Post a blog post or something and I'd bet somebody like Adafruit would publicize how awesome you are :)
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Robert Powers

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May 11, 2013, 3:25:32 AM5/11/13
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Blogs you say?!?! http://www.hackmelbourne.org/blog/

Although I don't know if Adafruit would really make a big deal of their own design: http://adafruit.com/products/855. Maybe.

-Bob

Jen Strover

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May 12, 2013, 12:46:02 AM5/12/13
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Thanks for the compliments everyone *blush*

Luke/Bob - I'd be happy to do a post for the CCHS blog.  How do I get posting rights?

Joshua - It''s not really practical to take orders since a large piece like this takes literally months to complete.  Also, I'd get bored churning out several of the same pattern :p

Andy Gelme

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May 12, 2013, 3:10:47 AM5/12/13
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hi Jen,

On 2013-05-11 15:32 , Jen Strover wrote:
> Good news, it's finally finished!

Beautiful, functional and useful !

I've been so looking forward to seeing this craft-work being found a
place of honor on the wall.

> Would anyone like to make a frame for it ?

I'd suggest that the frame should have a small numeric display and a
place where you can place a resistor, push a button (which momentarily
powers up a small Arduino) and displays the resistor value.

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May 12, 2013, 7:31:01 AM5/12/13
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Jen,

Firstly congratulations on completing an amazing work.  

I'm guessing you want it to stand as-is, in its completed awesomeness, but if you did want to do as Andy suggested and extend it, I think I know how it could be done...   

You could stitch over the resistor legs using conductive thread, to use as electrodes for reading a real resistor.   Behind the artwork/incorporated into the frame you could use a hacked autoranging RS232 multimeter - the serial stream is in fact just the bit pattern of the LCD segments, repeated over and over, so it would be easy to decode into the individual digits, and the decimal point position and kohm/Mohm segments give you the multiplier.   From the decoding you could illuminate each box, using a bright white led each stitched digit box, depending on the resistance.   Hopefully a bright white led would be bright enough to see the illuminated box from the front.   I have some code for extracting the multimeter stream if you're interested.  It could of course be mocked up separately from the artwork until proven... 

regards
Lachlan


Robert Powers

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May 12, 2013, 7:36:42 AM5/12/13
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This idea is 10 kinds of awesome.

Maybe 11.

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