In early August I took a tour of the Hanford Site located near Richland, Washington.
Hanford was created in 1943 to produce plutonium for nuclear bombs. Operating until the late 80’s – its 9 nuclear reactors produced enough material for 60,000 weapons.
The tour encompassed … (read more)
Over the last year – I’ve toyed with the notion of making an EDF fan bike.
I finally got around to putting one together – here’s some test footage:
EDF is short for Electric Ducted Fan. They are basically enclosed propellers for model airplanes – … (read more)
Been enjoying my new Full Spectrum laser cutter. It’s a lot of laser cutter for $2500!
I wanted to come up with something better than the stock “aiming” laser pointer.
Issue is that since the stock aiming laser doesn’t actually follow the cutting … (read more)
Nothing Labs now has a laser cutter!
The Full Spectrum 40 Watt Laser Cutter showed up about a week ago.
Here’s a video documenting my experience thus far:
Highs:
– It works pretty well!
– Deluxe package really includes everything you need to start cutting … (read more)
I just did another Instructable – Easy, Reversible Motor Control for Arduino (or any Microcontroller) (wow – that’s a mouthful…).
It is the result of my effort to come up with something less annoying to construct than an H-Bridge – using just locally available parts … (read more)
This project is a variation of my arduino powered laser show – and honestly it’s not quite as cool. But – I wanted to go down this road to explore a few ideas…
The video really covers all the core technical details:
My original hope … (read more)
Update: The cloud chamber is currently not for sale – but is being re-engineered as a kit. See http://www.nothinglabs.com/cloudchamber/ for info on building your own!
Cloud chambers let you see paths left by ionizing radioactive particles. Traces appear as the … (read more)
I registered nothinglabs.com about 3 years ago with the intent of morphing my translational drift project into some kind of flying toy.
In a more general sense – I wanted to somehow brand myself with something other than my circa-2002 now obsolete totally awesome anti-spam … (read more)
I got the laser show working pretty well now.
Not shown in video – but it also has a full library of alpha characters – so it’s easy to do text.
Full documentation / schematics coming soon!
Made a lot of progress since the last post:
No radical changes – just a bunch of minor tweaks adding up to better performance.
Will publish code / details in the next few weeks.… (read more)
A week or so ago – I found one of these at Value Village for $2.
If it’s not obvious – it’s a little laser show toy. It projects a laser on the wall which moves with sound / music. Unfortunately they don’t seem to … (read more)
I just got my iPhone 4.
When I picked it up the first time – I cringed. It’s very pretty – but with a glass screen and a glass back – it seems leaving the house without a case is a recipe for disaster.
So … (read more)
I haven’t been able to shoot a decent demo video for Manic Marble 3 due to not actually having an iPad of my own (not enough spare cash).
I developed the entire game using XCode’s iPad simulator. It’s fine for testing – but performance isn’t … (read more)
Latest round of design tweaks + some slow motion footage: