At this week’s NYCResistor meeting, I shot some video of Dave Clausen’s LED oscilloscope project. I set out to capture this video for Bre, since he’s in Vienna at the moment and wants to learn shift registers, but once I saw the project I knew that it had to be shared.

We’ve all gotten excited about this project, and Dave has agreed to open up his code and document everything, but needs a little help creating the schematics, etc. Zack ‘Hoeken’ Smith of RepRap will be giving a demo on Eagle at the next NYCResistor meeting so we can create the schematic, and we’ll be documenting this whole project from start to finish then.

Soon after that, we’re looking to create a kit for this project to make it easy for people to duplicate it at home. It’s a great project for learning audio processing, breadboarding using arduino, shift registers, and how to make and use an LED matrix. That, and it’s just cool. I want one of these for my desk.

Last weekend I helped Bre Pettis out with his Make: Weekend Projects Podcast. Each week Bre presents a project that you can do at home yourself, and since Halloween is just around the corner, I figured I’d show him my method for making fangs.

I think the fangs themselves came out pretty well, but even cooler, we show you how to make 3 different types of mold: alginate, plastic, and acrylic. You could make a duplicate of just about anything using this stuff!

Check out the video above - if you want to learn more, you can read the PDF that Bre put together, and subscribe to the show to get a new project each week.

At the Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market in Connecticut, Doc Watson and friends pluck out a tune.

A rainy morning upstate

July 20th, 2007

After a long few weeks of late night programming binges, I found myself waiting for my friend to pick me up early on a rainy morning.

Some of the thunder was very well timed- apparently everyone’s a comedian, even the weather!

Clipiversity, our new video podcast where we feature interesting things we learn on Clipmarks.com has been approved on Digg’s podcast section. I’d really appreciate your diggs to help get the show onto the “up and coming” list. Suggestions and comments about the show are always appreciated as well. Thanks!


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Videoblog: Frisbee 2.0

May 14th, 2007

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A bunch of us have been putting together a friendly little game of Ultimate Frisbee each saturday at 4-ish in central park. We play on the field just inside the park at 98th and 5th.

It’s a lot of fun - you should join us if you’re in NYC!

Music by The Unlovables