From dosman at bloominglabs.org Thu Aug 4 01:34:19 2011 From: dosman at bloominglabs.org (dosman at bloominglabs.org) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 01:34:19 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Bloomington Geek Dinner Thursday (8-4), and Bloominglabs activities Message-ID: Greetings! So what has Bloominglabs been up to lately? Our July 4rth Bloomington parade entry was a smashing success and our recent open house was amazing. Now that we have 1000 square feet of space at our disposal, projects have been springing up all over. Our new RFID door access system is coming along nicely with a successful test of the new build tonight. We now have a 42" lathe which is getting rebuilt. Part of the lathe rebuild included building an electrolysis rust removal system. Rusty parts sit in a water/soda ash bath for 24 hours with 12V applied, out comes parts that look nearly brand new. An electric 144-cue firework launch console was recently built at the space and tested at the last meeting. The Strand-Beast has been stomping around in the corner of the main room, and the electric wheel chair/robotic test platform is operating at peak capacity. We also had a crop of very nice Weller soldering stations appear at the space. The projector room recently hosted an awesome flight-sim and preparations for BugBot building is now under-way. If you've been lurking on our list and have not been to one of our events recently, you should come check us out, we have a lot happening! FYI, the next Bloomington Geek Dinner is at Opie Taylor's at 6pm: http://www.bloomingtongeekdinners.com/2011/07/geek-dinner-august-4th-opie-taylors.html Also we'll be at WonderLab August 13th from 1-3pm hosting the BugBot Workshop! Advance registration is recommended, contact WonderLab to register: http://www.wonderlab.org/programs/calendar.shtml Last but not least, don't forget about our workshop, "Getting Started with Arduino", August 23rd from 6:30pm until 8:30pm. It's limited to 6 people and the cost is $20. ? Who should attend: People who want to learn how to get started using the arduino board. Attendees will learn: ? How to get the arduino software ? Where to order a board ? How to connect the board to the computer ? How to connect LEDs to the board ? The very basics of programming to write a small program to flash the LEDs. ? The class attendees will be using a computer so basic knowledge of Windows and typing skills would be required. Kids are welcome but under 15 need to be accompanied by a parent. ? Attendees are not required to bring anything and will leave with a hand out of material of the class. ? Attendees will also have the option of purchasing an Arduino ? Contact jsissom (at) bloominglabs (dot) org with questions or to reserve a space ? This course is a good introductory course to how to use a microprocessor to people who have little programming or computer experience. See you soon! -Bloominglabs From dosman at bloomingtonfools.org Thu Aug 4 17:08:01 2011 From: dosman at bloomingtonfools.org (dosman at bloomingtonfools.org) Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2011 17:08:01 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Next lock picking meeting next Thursday at the Irish Lion (7pm) In-Reply-To: References: <8B30C8F0-372A-4833-ADF5-93516E9B73DD@packetsniffers.org> <74560C63-8A1A-4016-85AE-1AB223EACDB5@packetsniffers.org> <33504D36-848A-42EE-84F0-22E0A0EA4E3D@packetsniffers.org> <4F903EC6-C73F-4619-9A9A-30FC94890251@packetsniffers.org> <05AC51A9-5759-4ADE-BF12-EF2F97A919AF@packetsniffers.org> <1491A2E7-E722-4219-8C8F-706893D59FA8@packetsniffers.org> <5A5CF13C-A836-4138-ADB6-5938D341213B@packetsniffers.org> <96CA3682-69C1-4202-AF96-F5663E1ABE5B@packetsniffers.org> <7A448A0F-5423-4A80-B762-9594D1AA0679@packetsniffe rs.org> <1D9DC870-5753-45C8-9D33-4D7CED127AE3@packetsniffers.org> <1DDF55A3-01F2-455C-8CA7-A7405A951CFD@packetsniffers.org> <89057D84-61FD-4212-8ACD-211321E375B9@packetsniffers.org> <2BEF8013-8925-4587-86F0-969727FFCF66@packetsniffers.org> <0EBA25B8-DFC6-4FB1-AE40-82E69FD4BD8E@packetsniffers.org> <46E2BE1D-E866-4E2D-8396-B995015E2904@packetsniffers.org> Message-ID: <4F6FE572-607A-480E-9728-1D2D2C26288E@bloomingtonfools.org> Greetings! Just in case folks didn't know, the Fraternal Order Of Lock Sport meets every 2nd Thursday of the month to pick locks. Meetings are open to the public, kids are welcome. Our next meeting is next Thursday, August 11th at the Irish Lion at 7pm. Don't worry if you don't have picks, we have plenty to go around. Feel free to bring your own locks or come empty handed, we've got you covered. If you've never been to one of our meetings before and intend to come, please shoot me an email so I can make sure we have enough tables reserved. We are a kid friendly group, just let me know ahead-of-time so we can be seated in the right area (the Lion seats groups with kids upstairs). Thanks and see you there! -Nathan http://www.bloomingtonfools.org From jtillots at gmail.com Wed Aug 10 14:06:58 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:06:58 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Tonight's meeting Message-ID: Tonight is our traditional monthly business meeting. I'll be there at 6:30pm and any member who wants to come in and talk about business is welcome. Otherwise, see you at 7pm! And if you are a dues paying member, remember that your dues are due by the 15th. Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20110810/a58d80dc/attachment.html From jtillots at gmail.com Thu Aug 11 10:39:22 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:39:22 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Wonderlab beetlebot workshop this weekend Message-ID: The Wonderlab beetlebot workshop is this weekend, Saturday, August 13, from 1pm to 3pm. There will be up to 20 kids at the workshop and they will be 8+ years old. We need Bloominglabs members to come and help these kids solder together a beetlebot. If you are willing to help, would you drop me a note? If you are helping, I'd like to have you there at 12:30pm for just a bit of training - mostly reviewing the circuit we will be building. Thanks in advance! This will be a fun workshop. Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20110811/d938d2a3/attachment.html From jtillots at gmail.com Sat Aug 13 10:18:19 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:18:19 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Free electronics recycling today (Saturday) Message-ID: The city of Bloomington is offering free electronics recycling today, Saturday, until 1pm. http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=82169 Drop off your old electronics on your way to Wonderlab! Jenett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20110813/6f9d9d22/attachment.html From jtillots at gmail.com Sat Aug 13 19:38:44 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:38:44 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Emailing: Contraption_20100807_7.JPG, Contraption_20100807_1.JPG, Contraption_20100807_2.JPG, Contraption_20100807_3.JPG, Contraption_20100807_4.JPG, Contraption_20100807_5.JPG, Contraption_20100807_6.JPG In-Reply-To: <3974888232D1B245AB47F063339B9183164109F8@IBI-MAILSRV.ibi.local> References: <3974888232D1B245AB47F063339B9183164109F8@IBI-MAILSRV.ibi.local> Message-ID: I'm sending this on to our club's mailing lists. Hopefully someone in our group knows what it is! If it's easy to haul, we would love to take a look at it. Is there any chance you could bring it by the space on a Wednesday night? Jenett Bloominglabs On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Terri Gould wrote: > Hello Bloominglabs, > > We saw the article about you in the current issue of Bloom magazine. The > accompanying photo had a contraption in the background that slightly > resembled this one. We found this thing sitting on the sidewalk a year or > two ago. It was at about this time of year, during the city's bulk trash > removal week when everyone leaves stuff they don't want sitting out for the > trash collectors. We have no idea what it is - do you? It had (and still > has) a plastic whistle attached to it for some mysterious reason. > > If you could shed any light on this we'd love to hear what you know! > > Thanks! > > Terri Gould > > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20110813/bd286097/attachment.html From jtillots at gmail.com Sat Aug 13 20:57:21 2011 From: jtillots at gmail.com (Jenett Tillotson) Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:57:21 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] Emailing: Contraption_20100807_7.JPG, Contraption_20100807_1.JPG, Contraption_20100807_2.JPG, Contraption_20100807_3.JPG, Contraption_20100807_4.JPG, Contraption_20100807_5.JPG, Contraption_20100807_6.JPG In-Reply-To: References: <3974888232D1B245AB47F063339B9183164109F8@IBI-MAILSRV.ibi.local> Message-ID: Someone brought it to my attention that the pics got stripped from the forward. I uploaded some of them to bloominglabs.org and you can find them here: http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Image:Contraption_20100807_1.JPG http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Image:Contraption_20100807_3.JPG http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Image:Contraption_20100807_6.JPG http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Image:Contraption_20100807_7.JPG Jenett On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Jenett Tillotson wrote: > I'm sending this on to our club's mailing lists. Hopefully someone in our > group knows what it is! If it's easy to haul, we would love to take a look > at it. Is there any chance you could bring it by the space on a Wednesday > night? > > Jenett > Bloominglabs > > > On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Terri Gould wrote: > >> Hello Bloominglabs, >> >> We saw the article about you in the current issue of Bloom magazine. The >> accompanying photo had a contraption in the background that slightly >> resembled this one. We found this thing sitting on the sidewalk a year or >> two ago. It was at about this time of year, during the city's bulk trash >> removal week when everyone leaves stuff they don't want sitting out for the >> trash collectors. We have no idea what it is - do you? It had (and still >> has) a plastic whistle attached to it for some mysterious reason. >> >> If you could shed any light on this we'd love to hear what you know! >> >> Thanks! >> >> Terri Gould >> >> >> >> >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://www.bloominglabs.org/pipermail/bloominglabs-announce/attachments/20110813/eae2b9cc/attachment-0001.html From brian at tegrasys.com Sun Aug 28 15:36:55 2011 From: brian at tegrasys.com (Brian Wagner) Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:36:55 -0400 Subject: [Bloominglabs-announce] =?utf-8?q?ANNOUNCING_=E2=80=93_LVL1?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=B2s_2nd_annual_Sumobot_tournament_=28In_Louisvill?= =?utf-8?q?e=29?= Message-ID: LVL1?s 2nd annual Sumobot tournament will be on October 29th, 2011, 8PM at 814e Broadway (our home). There will be a Halloween party following the fun. All are welcome to join in the festivities. You may even get to see the world famous fire breathing pony, Buttercup! You have a couple of months to build your bot. There will be prizes and eternal glory! Read about it here :http://www.lvl1.org/2011/08/28/announcing-lvl1s-2nd-annual-sumobot-tournament/ And check the wiki if you want to build one: http://wiki.lvl1.org/Sumobots