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Habana Labs Wind Workshop #3

Posted by mang on February 7th, 2007 filed in Electronics, General, Hacking, Trip Report

The mission of Habana Labs in Brooklyn is to research, develop and apply technology related to ecology and sustainable energy. Their focus is on empowering local communities to take part and their approach is very hands on. At their third in a series of workshops on wind power the focus was on the [...]

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Blue Flower – Charger Hacking and Coil Construction

Posted by mang on April 12th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Hacking, Living Art, School

My blue flower will use inductive charging. I took apart an Oral-B CrossAction Power Max toothbrush ($18 at K-Mart) to see how it works and see if it would be useable in my project.
Charger hacking and coil construction pics
The toothbrush side is remarkably simple. There is a coil attached directly to a battery [...]

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Frankenbear — Part 1

Posted by mang on February 5th, 2006 filed in Electronics, Hacking, Living Art, School

For Living Art week 3 we’re are supposed to implement a Finite State Machine in a physical system. Suzan and I are hacking a Gloomy Bear to add some interaction. I’ll describe the interaction later (should be fun), but here are pictures from the Gloomy Bear hacking session.
The voice recorder we got from [...]

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