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Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at next
year’s maker faire!

… any ideas?

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GIANT ROBOTS!!!

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i did have an idea a while back, not sure how practical it will be.

I have a thing for steampunk and networking, mad combination i know but i
normally dont combine the 2.

my idea was to make a mechanical networking switch, a massive bank of relays
all clicking and switching depending on the network traffic?

would have to be small as the number of relays goes up exponentially but
would sound/look amazing.

or am i just mad?On 16 September 2010 14:02, Paul Plowman madstunts@hotmail.com wrote:

GIANT ROBOTS!!!

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:54:31 +0100
Subject: [HACMan] Maker Faire 2011 Ideas
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Sounds brilliant. Strowger switched Ethernet anyone?

i did have an idea a while back, not sure how practical it will be.

I have a thing for steampunk and networking, mad combination i know but i
normally dont combine the 2.

my idea was to make a mechanical networking switch, a massive bank of relays
all clicking and switching depending on the network traffic?

would have to be small as the number of relays goes up exponentially but
would sound/look amazing.

or am i just mad?On 16 September 2010 14:02, Paul Plowman madstunts@hotmail.com wrote:

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i did have an idea a while back, not sure how practical it will be.

I have a thing for steampunk and networking, mad combination i know but i
normally dont combine the 2.

Interesting idea, for reference - awesome monitor :slight_smile:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/09/neo-victorian_marquetry_monitor.html

J.

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the strowger would be awesome just the space alone would be huge, the
minimum cabling for ethernet is 2 pair.so to start switching even just 4
hosts starts to get silly. Im up for it anyway, i can only make the
saturday lab sessions tho.

a quick google for parts found this
http://www.boothvalue.com/?keyword=strowger

DeanOn 17 September 2010 21:43, Jonty Bale jbale@gridscape.co.uk wrote:

On 17 September 2010 19:47, Dean Moore doghousedean@gmail.com wrote:

i did have an idea a while back, not sure how practical it will be.

I have a thing for steampunk and networking, mad combination i know but i
normally dont combine the 2.

Interesting idea, for reference - awesome monitor :slight_smile:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/09/neo-victorian_marquetry_monitor.html

J.

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Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at
next year’s maker faire!

… any ideas?

I think it needs to catch attention - something to stimulate the senses.
How about some sort of an organ?

It’d require a compressor, some assorted lengths of tubing - (shiny
copper with lights on?) maybe a manifold for distributing the air and
some kind of actuators to direct the air to the tuned pipes.

Could automate the whole thing to play simple tunes - I did a project
many years ago that parsed text files in RTTF (Nokia ringtone) and
played them. There are loads of song files all over the net in this
format (ok it’ll play lots of music from like 1999/2000).

I’m quite excited about this now, thinking about neat plumbing with
copper hardware.

Some references:
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html


http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ

Going to finally make it down on wednesday in anyone wants to discuss
it.

Guy.

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Ooh, thats an awesome idea!

Theres a guy on ebay who sells solenoids / pipes / valves etc for organs.

We could even add more solenoid controlled instruments, sax, flute, drums.On 21 September 2010 11:33, Guy Thouret guy@thouret.co.uk wrote:

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:54 +0100, Bob Clough wrote:

Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at next
year’s maker faire!

… any ideas?

I think it needs to catch attention - something to stimulate the senses.
How about some sort of an organ?

It’d require a compressor, some assorted lengths of tubing - (shiny copper
with lights on?) maybe a manifold for distributing the air and some kind of
actuators to direct the air to the tuned pipes.

Could automate the whole thing to play simple tunes - I did a project many
years ago that parsed text files in RTTF (Nokia ringtone) and played them.
There are loads of song files all over the net in this format (ok it’ll play
lots of music from like 1999/2000).

I’m quite excited about this now, thinking about neat plumbing with copper
hardware.

Some references:
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_pipe
http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ

Going to finally make it down on wednesday in anyone wants to discuss it.

Guy.

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Use a motor as a dynamo, with an LED on the end of the pipes to light
it up, or something like that… lights on the out pipes when its
blowing would look cool anyway :stuck_out_tongue: and bubbles! (got a sudden image of
the car thing from Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory… :D)On 21 September 2010 11:43, Bob Clough parag0n@ivixor.net wrote:

Ooh, thats an awesome idea!
Theres a guy on ebay who sells solenoids / pipes / valves etc for organs.
We could even add more solenoid controlled instruments, sax, flute, drums.
On 21 September 2010 11:33, Guy Thouret guy@thouret.co.uk wrote:

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:54 +0100, Bob Clough wrote:

Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at next
year’s maker faire!

… any ideas?

I think it needs to catch attention - something to stimulate the senses.
How about some sort of an organ?

It’d require a compressor, some assorted lengths of tubing - (shiny copper
with lights on?) maybe a manifold for distributing the air and some kind of
actuators to direct the air to the tuned pipes.

Could automate the whole thing to play simple tunes - I did a project many
years ago that parsed text files in RTTF (Nokia ringtone) and played them.
There are loads of song files all over the net in this format (ok it’ll play
lots of music from like 1999/2000).

I’m quite excited about this now, thinking about neat plumbing with copper
hardware.

Some references:
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_pipe
http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ

Going to finally make it down on wednesday in anyone wants to discuss it.

Guy.

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Time to start thinking about this, we only have a couple of weeks to get the
application in!

I’m thinking it might be best just having a generic 'Projects of HACMan’
stall, take things like my robots, some bits of the lighting system, Paul’s
drumkit, the CNC router, and anything else cool (and portable) we make
between now and next March.

There’ll probably be a soldering / hacking area set up like last year, but
run by representatives from the various UK hackspaces, so we’ll probably be
helping out with that too :slight_smile:

Any other ideas?On 21 September 2010 19:08, Thomas Bloor tom.bloor@googlemail.com wrote:

Use a motor as a dynamo, with an LED on the end of the pipes to light
it up, or something like that… lights on the out pipes when its
blowing would look cool anyway :stuck_out_tongue: and bubbles! (got a sudden image of
the car thing from Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory… :D)

On 21 September 2010 11:43, Bob Clough parag0n@ivixor.net wrote:

Ooh, thats an awesome idea!
Theres a guy on ebay who sells solenoids / pipes / valves etc for organs.
We could even add more solenoid controlled instruments, sax, flute,
drums.
On 21 September 2010 11:33, Guy Thouret guy@thouret.co.uk wrote:

On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 09:54 +0100, Bob Clough wrote:

Its time to start thinking about what we should make for our stand at
next

year’s maker faire!

… any ideas?

I think it needs to catch attention - something to stimulate the senses.
How about some sort of an organ?

It’d require a compressor, some assorted lengths of tubing - (shiny
copper

with lights on?) maybe a manifold for distributing the air and some kind
of

actuators to direct the air to the tuned pipes.

Could automate the whole thing to play simple tunes - I did a project
many

years ago that parsed text files in RTTF (Nokia ringtone) and played
them.

There are loads of song files all over the net in this format (ok it’ll
play

lots of music from like 1999/2000).

I’m quite excited about this now, thinking about neat plumbing with
copper

hardware.

Some references:
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-5/Pipe-Organ.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_pipe
http://www.inspiredacoustics.com/wiki/index.php/Pipe_organ

Going to finally make it down on wednesday in anyone wants to discuss
it.

Guy.

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