After Dublin Maker and having lots of people around we put up few more pinhole cameras turned out much better than expected. Tracks at top left are the sun moving across the image for 3 weeks.
Pinhole photo from DublinMaker
At DublinMaker this weekend we had a tent and took an 8 hour exposure pinhole photo
New toys in TOG Spot Welder
As always at the BBQs at tog there is fire and dismantling of stuff involved. Group of us on Sunday during the BBQ took apart an old welder that was quite useless and converted it to a spot welder check out the video down below.
We also put up a few more pin hole photos of which will be posted in a few weeks.
How to Build a Time Machine in 12 Easy Steps:
A Tachyonic Antitelephone is a theoretical device, a thought experiment from physics history which allows the user to send messages back to his or her own past using faster than light particles called tachyons. A while back I decided to build a receiver. Being a fine art graduate however and lacking all but the most basic knowledge of physics and electronics, I required more than a bit of help. For the benefit of my past self, I’ll now outline how it’s done so I can send this message back in time and know how to do it:
Tachyonic Antitelephone from Sinead McDonald on Vimeo.
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Bubble Birdhouse
We have been working on projects that all went down really well at Maker Faire this year and will be working on over the coming months to improve as we go along.
One project that I worked on with another member is the Bubble Birdhouse.
It all started with some messing/science trying to make bubbles from washing up liquid and seeing what components are needed for a good bubble. Then trying to replicate what the commercial machines can do but build your own. Once we had this almost cracked we worked to scale up the project as we did for street performers event. We learned that children like to stick fingers into every bubble that comes out of the machine, so we came up with solutions for this.
We put it 6 foot off the ground, this was a really amazing experience to see how children and adults are drawn to bubbles.
Next stage is to take it all apart and redesign it from scratch like every project; rebuild and improve as we go along.
If you want to see the Bubble Birdhouse in action check out the end of this news piece.
Forge melting melting
Great weekend in Tog got good bit done working on few projects and making others work.
We where able melt glass, copper, aluminum in our little forge within few minutes.
