Matt Joyce is a creative hacker who seeks to twist things just a little bit and make life more interesting in the process! In this instance, he’s put an mp3 player inside a pineapple grenade which will provide great opportunities to have interesting talks when traveling by air, subway, or bus.
Things - Mike Gee Lazzzored a Tumbler Lock from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
Mike Gee designed and prototyped an awesome lock that you can see right into because it’s made out of clear acrylic. When you turn the key you get a happy surprise!
You can find the plans on thingiverse if you’d like to make one!
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Sidenote: I’ll have more videos from Europe soon, I have a lot to edit right now!
Things - Zach Smith Lazzzored a Peristaltic Pump from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
Zach Smith, fellow NYCResistor and Founder of The RepRap Research Foundation decided that for Lazzzorbattle 2008, he wanted to do something cool. In QCAD, he mocked up a peristaltic pump and after about 5 versions, he had it working and the entire design is cut out of 12″ x 12″ x 1/4″ of acrylic!
Peristaltic pumps are used to pump liquids that you don’t want touching any mechanical parts. By squishing a tube, the pump can keep the liquid sterile. These pumps are used in medical situations for pumping blood.
You can go check it out the design on Thingiverse and make your own!
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Things - Adam Mayer Digitally Designed Geared Business Cards from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
Adam Mayer is a friend of mine and fellow resistor who may be the most prolific person I know. When he decides to do something, he commits totally. Check out one of his previous obsessions documented in the Things video series: the teletype.
Recently he got into gears and gearing and spun that interest into a rad project to make cards with planetary gears embedded in them.
He’s uploaded the plans for the geared card and the geared planetary card to thingiverse so you can make your own!
He’s sent me to Vienna with enough materials to make 15 business cards and I’m honored to have them! I can’t wait to put them together!
Adam may be the best kept secret on twitter. If you’re not following him, you should do so now. He’s at http://twitter.com/phooky.
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Things - Devon Jones Created a Computer Controlled Dremel from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
Devon Jones needed a robot to do his bidding and so he made a computer controlled dremel. He found an instructable by Stuart McFarlan and created it using a mix of aluminum stock, an inexpensive wood called MDF, and skate bearings.
It now works so he’s going to be able to use the subtractive process, which means he can take away all the parts of the material that are not his thing, to create whatever he can imagine.
Here is an iphone sized video to take with you and a pixel-rich hd version for you to watch.
This month I’m making a video every day. I’m really pleased with all these videos and the attention people have given them. Thanks to everyone who has been leaving comments, writing iTunes reviews and subscribing. If you haven’t seen them all, I recomment subscribing in iTunes and downloading them all!
Things - Eric Skiff and Bre Pettis created a Popsicle Stick Robotic Arm from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
In a week, I travel to Vienna to participate in Roboexotica, the festival of cocktail serving robots. I’m bringing the Cherrytron 2000 with me. It’s a robot to put cherries in drinks!
Late in the evening Eric Skiff jumped in to make the code happen and the whole project came together in one night. Eric also provided the excellent soundtrack that he created with nanoloop. Adam Cecchetti gets credit for starting the original prototyping with me. The arm is made with Raphael Abram’s Twitchie Kit plus a few servos I pulled out of a broken RC helicopter that Joel Johnson and rubber bands!
Eric has the code up for you to review and if you don’t want to use popsicle sticks, you can download the cherrytron 2000 design files and lazzzor cut the parts for the arm on thingiverse.
I’m torn, I really love the popsicle stick aesthetic. Should I take them off and make it all shiny and red with acrylic parts? Help me decide in the comments!
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Things - Will Schenk Lazzzored a Dodecahedron from Bre Pettis on Vimeo.
This weekend I taught classes on how to use the Epilog 35W lasercutter. Will Schenk made a wonderful Dodecahedron. Besides looking cool, it’s a puzzle!
I’ll be teaching another class this upcoming Saturday if you get inspired and you’re in the NYC area.
You can get the iphone video file by subscribing in itunes. Here’s the HD video file!
Raphael Abrams and Max explore the smelly process of high voltage cooking!
Feel free to subscribe in iTunes to get all these videos delivered automagically. You can also watch electricity jump up wires in a super HD video file and with a file for your iphone!
Also, huge thanks to the folks who have left such awesome reviews in iTunes. If you haven’t done so, I still need more! Leave reviews of this podcast here!
Bonus: This isn’t the first time these two have cooked with the jacobs ladder.
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