Editing Concepts

Please explore and add-to a list of project concepts.

When you add your concept give only a short description of your concept, then make another page to present further details, media, and discussion of the project. Make sure to sign your name or add contact info so interested parties can offer support!

==Transit status information==

I've written something that uses [http://www.bart.gov/schedules/developers/etas.aspx] together with Festival to give announcements about BART trains approaching 16th Street.  I intend on setting this up with a cron job to run around the time of the scheduled last trains every night (and maybe the first train in the morning if we think people may frequently stay until around 4:00 a.m.!), using the music server once it's stable.  To avoid annoying people this should probably not be configured to make regular announcements at other times.  Two extensions to make this more useful: (1) if we can get or make a USB-to-buttons/switches or parallel-port-to-buttons/switches adapter, we can have a big button somewhere that causes an announcement to occur (for use when people are thinking of catching BART and want to know when it's coming).  (2) If we can get a big scrolling LED sign with computer control, we can have it constantly display train status -- as well as Muni bus announcements with data from [http://www.nextbus.com/ NextBus], perhaps using a library to get it. [[User:Schoen|Schoen]] 23:30, 9 October 2008 (PDT)

==RepRap==

RepRaps are a kind of homemade 3D printers capable of self-replicating, as well as being used for rapid prototyping and manufacturing.  There is interest in constructing a RepRap at NoiseBridge.  See [[RepRap]].


==Ambient Activity Mutating Space==

Place properly signed microphones in part of the space. Pick up conversations, feed them to voice recognition software. Extract nouns and phrases from the results. Render the top results from searching these phrases on displays in the space, twitter them on the Noisebridge twitter stream, and do other fun things. Maybe also do gesture recognition, too. See [[Ambient Activity Mutating Space]].


== Pancakes ==

there's a saying to the effect that the first batch is always ruined. a similar saying says don't buy any software with a rev of 1.0. is there such a saying about wikis? should there be? what about refactoring this wiki so's to make it easier to navigate (e.g. don't have two separate "infrastructure" sections)? --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 16:38, 19 October 2008 (PDT)

This falls very much into the category of Just Do It.  That said, it's a fairly big job that I personally have not found time to take on.  If anyone wants to collaborate on wiki reorganization I'm up for that (I like Organized). [[User:Rachel|Rachel]] 16:49, 19 October 2008 (PDT)

see discussion page for collaboration. --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 21:59, 19 October 2008 (PDT)

==Hologlyphic Video Art Project==

Basic project proposal:

Create an extension of existing True 3D video art performance system that would be much larger and in full color. In the existing monochromatic 6” to 19” sized system viewers see true 3D stereoscopic moving images without special glasses. A viewer can move left to right and see multiple perspectives of the same object, and multiple viewers can each see their own unique view, as in the real world. The technical process is not holography, but the visual result is the same as a white light hologram.


Collaboration proposal:

Several designs for a larger system have been worked out, after a few people see the 3D video art system, we can discuss the various methods, to asses which approach we may take.There will be two main phases to the project, the technical development and then creative content development stage, although there will be some overlap, in a good sense. See [[Hologlyphic Video Art]].

In person demo of the Hologlyphics: This Saturday, Nov. 22nd, at 3:00 pm -

ACCRC
1501 Eastshore Hwy
Berkeley, California, 94710
Phone: (510) 528-4052

ACCRC Website-
http://www.accrc.org/

Map-
http://www.google.com/local?q=1501+Eastshore+Hwy.+Berkeley,+CA+94710&t=h

--[[User:Wfunk|Wfunk]] 21 November 2008

== Electronics Essentials ==
 
seems likely that people working on electronic projects would find a variable power supply and a function generator handy along with some other basic test gear (e.g. pink noise generator, resistance bridge, LC measuring device...). many such things are available as kits. i've got one or two myself and would like to build them down there and leave them for people to use. what cautions wrt other peoples' careful use? signs or brief instruction sheets helpful? --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 16:38, 19 October 2008 (PDT) 

anyone want to collaborate on building kits and devices? [[OtherElectronicProjects]] --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 16:38, 19 October 2008 (PDT)

I brought some random retro gear along those lines, they're on a shelf labeled as donated by Skory. If they look of use please take them and have your way with them. --[[User:elgreengeeto|elgreengeeto]]

I bought a bunch of cheap but universally useful components: about 1000 resistors, 300 capacitors, diodes, wire, etc. I'm taking suggestions for other cheap but handy electronics I aught buy in bulk. [[User:dstaff|dstaff]].


==Python classes==

Proposed at [[Python classes]]. [[User:Schoen|Schoen]] 21:20, 26 October 2008 (PDT)


==Pimping up the lights==

I want to pimp up Noisebridge's lights with a digital web-controlled interface. (Don't worry, there will still be switches that just-work.) See [[Lighting]]. Once I have enough work done, I'll bring it up at a meeting.  If anyone wants to help with construction or software, let me know.  I think I have the electronics under control. -- [[user:Dstaff|Dstaff]]

how about LED lights on a 12VDC circuit? --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 08:55, 14 November 2008 (PST)


==Gastrohacking SOE==

We are enough mad food hackers that we should make sure that a ''SubOrganizational Entity'' with regular [[Gastrohacking|food hacking]] meet-ups, events, workshops, cook-offs, and participation in [http://blog.khymos.org/2007/05/02/tgrwt-1-roundup-coffee-chocolate-garlic/ TGRWT] challenges.
We would like to work our way through the recipes or ideas from the great scientific chefs: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferran_Adria Ferran Adria], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heston_Blumenthal Heston Blumenthal] et.c. Make things like: Blue cheese / chocolate souffle and lemon tempura with licorice. Build and use a [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/magazine/14CRYOVAC.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=3d5db17005368139&ex=1281672000&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss sous vide bath] and a computer controlled automated bbq.


==Wiki Watch== 

the wiki is getting wacky. over time it may get so crufty as to be unhelpful. this "concept" suggests some of us pay attention to our wiki to keep it useful, something like managing a garden: 
* some items are old and no longer useful, like weeds, they should be removed. if an audit trail or history is needed, move old stuff to an antiquities section. 
* there are redundancies which should be consolidated (move all the gardenias to the same bed). 
* it might be nice to use the discussion (talk) pages more and the article pages less so the text on the article pages reflects concensus of the discussion (and reduces the amount of words the reader must slog through). 
* wiki technologies offer some features that might be good to promote. an example is "categories": if you look at special pages, you'll see a categories page listed; click it and you'll see the categories, one of which is "projects". it might be nice that we're aware of the projects category and tag some articles as projects. the benefit is easier wiki navigation. the downside, of course, is that all humans, even enlightened intelligent and well-meaning humans, are at times douchebags and won't bother to read about how to do things in ways other than what the current feelings dictate. 

if you have feelings about watching the wiki, add your voice, please. perhaps we can get up a wikiwatch group to encourage each other to manage the mess. --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 09:13, 14 November 2008 (PST) 


==Getting and Giving Stuff== 
if we get stuff, where to put it? there are the sharing and hacking shelves, probably incoming should go on one of those two sets. 

it would be nice to have an outgoing shelf, a place to put stuff that we no longer want. maybe the very bottom shelf in the hacking set? other? 

how about trips to take stuff to ACCRC? a trip to ACCRC could be just to take stuff, just to see the place, just to spend time working as volunteers, or some combo. --[[User:Jstockford|Jstockford]] 10:35, 17 November 2008 (PST)