[Swansea Hackspace] Daily Countdown (but working days not calendar)

[CRAIG LEANNEY]

I know we are making a robot in the workshop soon, but when I have done that I want to use my new skills to build something like this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSA_fy9v7I
[http://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OVP.Va50877e13b3a714d4a5a616f969a22e0&w=250&h=140&c=7&pid=Api]<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSA_fy9v7I>

mDrawBot 4-in-1 drawing robot: Draw Your Own Legend<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFSA_fy9v7I>
www.youtube.com
This drawing robot kit can be assembled into four different configurations: mScara, mCar, mSpider and mEggBot. It can do everything from scribble on walls to...


Please let me know what you think.

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From: hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk <hackspace-bounces at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> on behalf of Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>
Sent: 29 January 2016 10:07
To: Swansea Hackspace
Subject: Re: [Swansea Hackspace] Daily Countdown (but working days not calendar)

This is the one I want !!

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664359/a-drawing-machine-whose-pen-strokes-become-pixels-video#1
[http://h.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/imagecache/620x350/article_feature/PolarGraph-Lede.jpg]<http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664359/a-drawing-machine-whose-pen-strokes-become-pixels-video#1>

A Drawing Machine Whose Pen Strokes Become Pixels [Video]<http://www.fastcodesign.com/1664359/a-drawing-machine-whose-pen-strokes-become-pixels-video#1>
www.fastcodesign.com
Sandy Noble uses a primitive robot and a plotting system designed for Arctic maps to sketch out beautiful prints. The polar coordinate system gives Noble's artwork a ...



On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Ceri Clatworthy <ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com<mailto:ceri.clatworthy at gmail.com>> wrote:
Another thought ..

3 servo motors, Hundreds, tens, units.

connected to a drum, passably that roses box you just could not throw out,
with a vinyl cut label wrapped around the outside,

similar to a fruit machine tumblers

[Inline image 1]

each disk one servo, but obviously you only have about 180 degrees of motion ...



On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk<mailto:justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk>> wrote:
On Fri, 2016-01-29 at 08:10 +0000, Ceri Clatworthy wrote:
> This is another zero power display. ..
> Emmanently hackable
>
> http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/331525033859
>
> Flip clock.
>
>
> Before any one complaints about my zero power statement.
> As E paper. . Only concumes power on change.

Well if your going to go that route,
a very hacky and also power-onky-on-change

3d print yourself a Plot Clock and reprogram it for this task.
e.g. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:371248

:)


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