{"id":4551,"date":"2009-10-22T18:45:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T01:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2015-11-04T08:15:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:15:03","slug":"leds4n00bs-evil-flamingoes-blue-robots-obama-chia-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/leds4n00bs-evil-flamingoes-blue-robots-obama-chia-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"LEDs4N00Bs (evil flamingoes, blue robots, obama chia, aftermath)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The LEDs4N00Bs workshop was a real success, and thanks everyone who attended, built toy-boxes, and to Julius for giving a really wonderful first<\/em> workshop at our new space in Long Island City.<\/p>\n

I introduced the workshop and then Julius gave a 30-odd minute presentation about his art, and a little history and science of LEDs. We followed with the art\/toy making session, which lasted for around 1.5 hours!<\/p>\n

We weren’t able to acquire some .5W solar panels like in the image above, so we were relegated to 9V batteries which can be easily replaced, and combined with a switch are able to extend the longevity of both the battery and the LEDs. Our kits required: 9V battery, a pre-fabricated clip to draw power from the battery, a switch, LED and a resistor. From this people made some pretty interesting toys!<\/p>\n

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\nVisitors to Flux Factory were greeted by an evil flamingo! A working example of some found objects, scrap wood and simple LED hacking.<\/p>\n

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\nThe lecture and presentation, Julius talking about his art.<\/p>\n

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\nA small sample of a complete circuit powered by a AA battery.<\/p>\n

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\nThen the hacking begins! Bit boxes, batteries, LEDs, soldering station!<\/p>\n

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\nBlue ‘bots! I like the switch hack: a hole drilled into the case so no need to open\/close the lid.<\/p>\n

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\nAnother hack in the works, a modded Obama chia-pet!<\/p>\n

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\nIf only turning on democracy<\/em> was this easy!<\/p>\n

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\nThe circuit: you can see the negative wire (red) goes to the right eye, and the wire from the switch continues to the left eye and sequences like an eyeglass bridge.<\/p>\n

And one of my favorite aspects of any workshop or classroom environment, the mess! The aftermath is always chaotic, but evidences the activity of life:
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more work by Julius can be found at his website: http:\/\/www.urgu.de\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The LEDs4N00Bs workshop was a real success, and thanks everyone who attended, built toy-boxes, and to Julius for giving a really wonderful first workshop at our new space in Long Island City. I introduced the workshop and then Julius gave a 30-odd minute presentation about his art, and a little history and science of LEDs. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,20],"tags":[1229,629],"series":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-geekathon","tag-geekathon","tag-led"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/leds4n00bs_4035200941_a326c3a0a6_b.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-1bp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15514,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/15514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}