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Reactive Lamps prototyping progress

admin June 3, 2015 October 5, 2016Workshops

Dave Hull and Dan Hull (sons of artist Beanne Hull, the main organizer of Sky Art Week) are helping out making a base for our reactive lamps in the electronic arts workshop — here you can see the base they are designing to fit the electronics components, while also fitting either a mason jar or an acrylic cylinder…printed out using a 3D printer!

Close up of main light casing.

Mason jar with light casing and blue light.

Light casing, made from three separate pieces.

Light casing, assembled, made from 3D printer

Electronics components, soldered together

Video of light casing inserted into acrylic cylinder

Video of light casing in mason jar with sample animations

Anthrolume’s LED trenchcoat coming to Electric Sky!

admin May 25, 2015 October 5, 2016Projects

Bryan Ressler’s (see Anthrolume, his project blog) most recent wearable LED creation is his trenchcoat, which has 1000 LEDs on it. He’ll be bringing it to work on some animations, but also to show it off!

LED Tenchcoat

Be sure to check out this video of Anthrolume 4.0: The Trench, and come armed with your questions.

Get your Electric Sky t-shirt!

admin May 21, 2015 October 5, 2016Projects

Jeff Larson created the designs, they are now up on Society6! Get yours here.

Electric Sky T-shirts are on Society6 in Grey, Green, and Blue

Thanks Jeff! Jeff is a fabulous designer and a part of the art group Totally Legit LLC, sponsoring Electric Sky with their volunteer time and materials.

For the kids: Fairy Wands and Wizard Sticks

admin May 6, 2015 October 5, 2016Kids, Workshops

On Saturday afternoon we’ll be introducing some of the younger kids to the joys of LEDs by having them make fairy wands or wizard sticks out of an RGB LED and a switch (to change colors) attached to a stick, which they can then decorate. Once made they’ll be able to run around at dusk making light patterns in the air. This workshop will probably be held on Saturday afternoon, 4-5:30.

Here’s one on Instructables for inspiration:

Fairy Staff

3D Printing Jump Start — demo and brief lesson in free/easy modeling

admin May 6, 2015 October 5, 2016Workshops

Josh Lind and Chris D’Annunzio have signed up to bring their 3D printer and give a brief intro to 3D printing. Josh says his main goal is to let people know just how easy it is. That’ll be Saturday afternoon in the creativity lab, 2-3:30.

3D printer

A closer look at the kitchen.

admin April 12, 2015 October 5, 2016Camping

Here are a few pictures of the kitchen area, to help those who might want to use it for cooking plan accordingly.

Front view of the kitchen area.

The outdoor kitchen area has two fridges, two stoves, a sink, some tables — and electricity.

A grill, uses fire wood.

Internet Field Test a Success!

admin April 11, 2015 October 5, 2016Uncategorized

We wanted to test our Internet solution was going to work in the field (high capacity wi-fi pucks), and we encountered success, even with all our devices playing videos!

Testing the Internet in the ball park.

Prototyping the Reactive Lamps

admin April 5, 2015 October 5, 2016Camping, Workshops

We made great progress prototyping the reactive lamp setup we’ll be using for the Electronic Art: Reactive Lamps workshop, including an Arduino, an RGB ring, and a motion detecting sensor. We also had a couple of people go through the sequence of installing the sample software and tweaking it for our setup. We then handed over the electronics to Dan Hull, an industrial designer who’s creating a housing unit for the electronics using a 3D printer.

Prototype of the reactive lamp

Flora arduino, optimized for wearable projects

Sensor/compass, detects movement

Neopixel Ring (controllable RGB LEDs)

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