I've made some headway. At first, I was pretty frustrated with disjunct and lacking information I came upon, so I wrote a list of the courses I would take at a free school (Hello Star City Shadow School) if courses like these existed:
Friday, September 28, 2012
Significant Design Advancements for the CCC
I've made some headway. At first, I was pretty frustrated with disjunct and lacking information I came upon, so I wrote a list of the courses I would take at a free school (Hello Star City Shadow School) if courses like these existed:
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Cycler Current Cystems
I'm fairly inexperienced as far as electrical engineering goes, so I'll need anyone's help developing an auxiliary power system for one of my bicycles in the next two weeks. I would like to debut this system, at least the power and control of the LED strip, by October 5th as part of PROject proJECT, a by-night light event in downtown Roanoke, VA.
All notes and contributions from others I will post to this blog!
Below you'll find a list of what I hypothesize I will need for this system. Following this list is another list (I love lists) of resources that have been compiled in relation to the first list.
Things:
1. 12VAC Sidewall Dynamo
2. Bridge Rectifier
3. Charge Controller
4. Batteries
5. DC-DC converter(s)
6. "outlets" to power things
7. Things to power:
a. Arduino UNO & Light Strip (5v? & 5v, 2A)
b. USB to micro-USB LG Phone (5.1V DC - .7A)
c. USB to micro-USB Novatel WiFi device (5V DC - 1.1A)
d. netbook using a barrel plug (19V DC - 1.58A)
The dynamo will send varying voltages of AC power into the rectifier which will turn it into DC. The charge controller will feed DC power into the battery if necessary. I'm not exactly sure how charge controllers work yet. I also am not sure what type of batteries I would need and how they would work either. The batteries will provide DC power of a certain voltage (which drops as the battery drains) to one or various DC-DC converters made to provide the various voltages I need for the listed devices. I only plan on powering/charging one of the four devices at a time so I think a switch delegating which device I would power would work. I can wire a female USB port through which I can power the phone and wifi device. I'm not exactly sure how to power the Arduino and LED strip yet, but there will be something for that. Finally, I'll wireup a 3ft wire & barrel plug that'll plug into my netbook.
Current On-Line Resources:
Possible Sidewall dynamo (I cannot afford to have a wheel built & purchase a hub dynamo.)
[ http://www.amazon.com/Bike-Bicycle-Dynamo-Generator-12V/dp/B000OBWMGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348419091&sr=8-1&keywords=12v+dynamo ]
Simple Bridge Rectifier Tutorial:
[ http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/electronics-projects-how-to-build-rectifier-circui.html ]
Charge Controller as recommended by Sean McIntyre:
[ http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280859381368&ssPageName=ADME:L:OC:CA:3160 ]
DC-DC converter as used by Sean:
[ http://www.ebay.com/itm/LM2577-DC-DC-Power-Supply-Step-up-Module-25W-Heatsink-/260775477112?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb76dff78 ]
Documentation of Sean's project of lighting up EL wire w/ a hub dynamo using a rectifier and some inverters:
[ http://blog.boxysean.com/2012/06/04/bike-powered-illumination/ ]
Arduino & Light-Strip + Tutorial from adafruit:
[ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006H06TVG/ref=gno_cart_title_1 ]
[ http://www.adafruit.com/products/306 ]
[ http://learn.adafruit.com/digital-led-strip/overview ]
(From the tutorial, it still isn't clear to me how to power the Arduino & light strip from the same 5v source. Tutorial says: "For a standalone application (not USB connected to a computer), you can power the Arduino from the same regulated 5V supply as the LEDs — connect to the 5V pin on the Arduino, not Vin, and don’t use the DC jack on the Arduino.")
Very informative, but slightly over my head set of links & documentation for similar but still different applications on 'POKING THINGS WITH STICKS':
[ http://www.pokingthingswithsticks.com/projects/bicycle-iphone-and-usb-charging/the-charging-circuit/ ]
Monday, March 15, 2010
Major Data Loss
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A List of Tapes/Footage from the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival 02.11-16.2010
Tape – Date – Who – Where – Rec Speed
A01 - 2/11 Eugene Chadborne @ dialogue 17min - DVCAM
A01 - 2/12 Community High School test tape; errors...? - DVCAM
A02 – 2/10 Oromancer Test, Julian/Community. High School Test - DVCAM
A03 – 2/12 The Circus Practice @ The Water Heater - DVCAM
A04 – 2/12 The Circus Practice @ The Water Heater - DVCAM
A05 – 2/13 Brian Counihan Interview @ Community High School – mDV SP
A05 – 2/13 Ralph Eaton Interview @ Roanoke Public Library w/ the ArtRat – mDV SP
A06 – 2/13 TJ Anderson, Richard Normand, Gyorgi Boros, Tribute to Beat Poets @ Community. High School – mDV SP
A06 – 2/13 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus, 3 Fluxus Events @ Community High School – mDV SP
A07 – 2/13 Bill Beamer & Geof Huth, trumpet, & didgeridoo @ Community High School – mDV SP
A07 – 2/13 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus 2 Fluxus Events @ Community High School – mDV SP
A07 – 2/13 Warren Fry, Lecture on Oberiu @ Community High School – mDV SP
A08 – 2/13 Warren Fry, Lecture on Oberiu @ Community High School – mDV SP
A08 – 2/13 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus, Fluxus Events @ Community High School – mDV SP
A08 – 2/13 Andrew Topel, Visual Poetry Lecture @ Community High School – mDV SP
A09 – 2/13 Andrew Topel, Visual Poetry Lecture @ Community High School – mDV SP
A09 – 2/13 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus, Fluxus Event (Orange + Water Buckets) @ Community High School – mDV SP
A09 – 2/13 Olchar Lindsann, Bruitist Poetry @ Community High School – 20 min left – mDV SP
A10 – 2/13 id m theft able @ Community High School – mDV SP
A10 – 2/13 Reed Altemus, Keith Buchholz, Fluxus Events @ Community High School – mDV SP
A11 – 2/13 Reed Altemus Interview @ Community High School – mDV SP
A12 – 2/14 Beth Deel Interview @ the Water Heater – mDV SP
A13 – 2/14 Beth Deel Interview @ the Water Heater pt II – mDV SP
A13 – 2/14 Bill Beamer & Simultaneous Poetry @ Community High School – mDV SP
A14 – 2/14 Olchar Lindsann, Lecture on 19th Century Poetic Recitation @ Community High School – mDV SP
A15 – 2/14 end of Olchar Lindsann, Lecture on 19th Century Poetic Recitation @ Community High School – mDV SP
A15 – 2/14 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus, 2 Fluxus Events – mDV SP
A16 – 2/14 Geof Huth, Lecture on Visual Poetry @ Community High School – mDV SP
A17 – 2/14 Geof Huth, Lecture on Visual Poetry @ Community High School – mDV SP
A17 – 2/14 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus, Fluxus Events – mDV SP
A17 – 2/14 Pizza Time @ Community High School – mDV SP
A17 – 2/14 Tomislav Butkovic, Olchar Lindsann, Warren Fry performing don't you fucking smile by David Beris Edwards, simultaneous poem @ Community High School – mDV SP
A18 – 2/14 Keith Buchholz, Lecture on Fluxus @ Community High School – mDV SP
A18 – 2/14 Keith Buchholz, Reed Altemus, Fluxus Events @ Community High School – mDV SP
A19 – 2/14 id m theft able noise performance @ Community High School – mDV SP
A19 – 2/14 Ralph Eaton's Stuffed Animal Orchestra @ Community High School – mDV SP
A20 – 2/15 Vispo/Mail-Art/Fluxus Workshop w/ Students @ Community High School – mDV SP
A21 – 2/15 Vispo/Mail-Art/Fluxus Workshop w/ Students @ Community High School – mDV SP
A21 – 2/15 Interview with Geof Huth @ Community High School – mDV SP
A22 – 2/15 Interview with Geof Huth @ Community High School – mDV SP
B01 – 2/12 Setup @ Community High School – mDV SP
B02 – 2/15 Interview with Jim Leftwich @ Jim Leftwich's Home – mDV SP
B03 – 2/15 Interview with Keith Buchholz @ Studio Annex – mDV SP
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Photo Documentation - Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival
L2R: Warren Fry, Julián Mathews, Keith Buchholz, Olchar Lindsann, Reed Altemus @ Fluxus Now! - Community High School, Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival 2010
There are approximately 85 photographs that I took during the Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, VA. Only a fraction is currently uploaded to flickr since I have upload limits, but in the future I will upload the rest. Most of these are at the Fluxus Now! Exhibit at Community High School.
Film Documentation:
[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/postneoabsurdism/sets/72157623509891962/ ]
Jim Leftwich has over 500 digital photographs from the Festival, along with a enormous list of all of those who performed, exhibited and contributed to the Fluxus Now! exhibition he organized.
That can all be found on Jim's TextImagePoem blog.
Digital Documentation:
[ http://www.flickr.com/photos/textimagepoetry/sets/72157623313227837/ ]
Marginal Arts Festival:
[ http://marginalarts.com ]
Event
2. Meet half way.
3. Exchange pocket sized items.
4. Return to your destination with a different route from which you came.
Feb 94ADa/2010 James Brehm/Tomislav Butkovic
KUH[n] II
KUH[n] is a dvd-media journal which aims to document and place in junction the various digital works by people of communities that coincide such as mail-art, visual poetry, noise, punk, avant writing linked by association to the network of PostNeoAbsurdist [anti-]discourse. KUH[n] acts as a reference to actions which perpetually occur or to created situations. It does not assume to be a whole and is not a substitution for lived organization and experience. Though still a digital product, KUH[n] is contained as a dvd to maintain its physicality as an object in order to remain a catalyst for discussion and further association, whether or not it is readable in the future. (That it will be unreadable in the future is the very nature of digital technology.)
Burned on archival dual layer dvd with printed sleeve. Approx 3hr.
$5 – or trade
Features:
Matt Ames/Philosophy Inc (Roanoke VA)
Putt Putt Days
Hello Roanoke, Hello Deleuze, Hello Economy
315 Bowman
John M. Bennett (Columbos OH)
Studio 2: Ahh Dog
Tsubasa Berg (Brooklyn NY)
sunζmon
Reid Bingham (Brooklyn NY)
Colin Chandler (New Brunswick NJ)
mourning abandon
Meet You On Earth One Day
Tomislav Butkovic (New Brunswick, NJ)
The Pocket Remover (with Warren Fry)
Tim Campbell (Washington DC)
Digital Paintings:
heMNOP
sinny
thTH
Bradley Chriss (Washington DC)
Meat Poem
DJ Thumper! (Cincinnati OH)
Ghost Ride Tha Pit
Ralph Eaton (Los Angeles/Roanoke VA)
Brett Waller (Los Angeles/Florida)
Holyland
David Beris Edwards (Plymouth UK)
Eleanor Francis Waterfowl(Plymouth UK)
In Which We Extract Honey from a Bag of Flower
Warren Fry (New Brunswick NJ)
Why I Hate Sharks
Aaron Howard (Brooklyn NY)
leaves fly a spiral library in an unlettered sky
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (Finland)
Jim Leftwich (Roanoke VA)
blinds
glitch
magazine
morph 4
morph 5
morph 6
xsawalk1
Olchar Lindsann (New Brunswick NJ)
Emilie Lennard (Toledo OH)
A Beautiful Summer's Day
Stewart Home (UK)
Justin McKeown (Northern Ireland)
Julius Evola in the Fountain of Modernism
Justin McKeown/SPART ACTION (Northern Ireland)
Pogo Manifesto
Realicide (Nomadic)
Shit for Reality
The Shit Punx Hate
Open Eyes
Alan Reed (Montreal CA)
The Golem
Joe Ruck (Colonia NJ)
Charlie the Schizophrenic
Cut
Wall Puppets (with Tomislav Butkovic)
[PRO-][ANTI-] press is an organizational entity that experiments in the production of digital publications and documents which attempt to utilize digital formats in practices which are not limited to the inherited technological restrictions of previous mediums.
Also available on [PRO-][ANTI-]:
KUH[n]: the First (ADa 91/2007 - $3 or trade)