Tag: idea

References: M&M Color Sorter, Automatic Sorter, faster.

The challenge for me would be speed.

References: Robot Arm, uArm Open Source

I have a few servos, bearings, and a CNC. The plans are for laser cut or 3D printed so I’d modify. It would be interesting to write a library for natural motion, using something like motion curves.

References: Vanillabox

A laser cutter is a 2D printer that also has a focusing lens that adjusts the laser to focus on the point that you are cutting.

Vortex cannons are interesting in relation to fluid dynamics, if it can be done with air, then can the same principles would apply for other fluids. The fuel powered ones are hail cannons, I’d have to look more.

Hydraulic cylinders use a fluid to pump to a large cylinder to a affect a more forceful change on a small cylinder. The opposite could be used to quickly affect a large compressible fluid like air.

Making a sheet of fog, generating fog and then directing it in a flat wall, it could be a projector screen.

References: Wireless MIDI, Jamstik

The Particle Photon run Arduino code that is connected to one long or a few ThinPots along the neck, and a laser/LED harp could go across the sound hole. Given the thickness of 2.5 cm (1 inch) of the pots I’m looking at making my own, I need to research, it seems like a conductor, a spacer, and a resistor layer is what you’d need. I have thin copper tape, I’d need to find the rest. Wireless MIDI is definitely possible on many platforms.

References: FarmBot, Plantbot, pH probe

I would want ideal plant growth, while testing for taste.
Seeds can germinate with paper towel and some water, I wonder how direct you could get it to sprout, some rock wool maybe. A filter for the bubble air pump. The more variables you can control the more you can test for.

Light amount, spectrum, time of day.
pH of water
Oxygen water & air
CO2 water & air
Circulation amount water & air
Nutrient amounts

A different spectrum of light at times of day, a light at 60Hz and our eye doesn’t notice it blinking. Wonder if photosynthesis acts the same as the reactions in our rods/cones and it stops mattering at a certain refresh rate.

Lighting, I have a very large grow LED and liquid cooling, better with a large fanless heatsink.
Hydroponics, I have the 3″ mesh pots.

Needed:
ph sensor, ph up and down
liquid nutrients
a way to circulate air, I have a few pumps which may do
germinante seeds, rock wool may work

There are straightforward ways of doing this. I don’t think I’ll venture into metal casting at home, but I can make a CNC cut a simple 2D shape. Material selection is the question, I cut softer metals but a cutter has a lot of negative space. I may do a thinner metal outline and then a supporting structure or handle.

Ideas:
Fruits
Animals
Ninja
Smile tooth
Fossil bones
Halloween: ghost, skull, skeleton
An open source superhero logo

References: Mold Making, Tetris Ice Cubes, Vacuum Chamber

Design, carve the inverse into something that would make a good silicone mold, make the mold and freeze. You want a vacuum chamber for the mold so there isn’t air bubbles, I have a few vacuum pumps but I question how low they can get the air pressure.

What to mold:
Fruits
Bunny, animals
Penguin on iceberg
Tooth mould
Titanic
Brain
Paw print
Musical instruments
Chess set
Fossil
Halloween: ghost, skull
An open source superhero logo
A person frozen in a slab of ice