Projects

I'm always doing more than one thing at the same time.

It's actually quite nice to have this list to see what it is I'm (sortof) working on

• Buttons

Things I thought I was working on but haven't made real progress recently.

• Living in a shipping container.
• Sun tracker, add 2 servo's and a microcontroller to a solar panel to auto-aim it to te most light.
• Quantified home combine an Arduino with an Ethernet Shield and my 1wire stuff from the fridge to make online temperature logging possible.
• Line following bot.
• Captest, a grid of capacitance sensitive sensors on a Twister™ grid. Powered by an Arduino and connected through midi to a Mac/Pc.
• Work on my Volkswagen T3 (T25) Transporter Doka (Doppelkabine).

Things already on my horizon and they have had some thinking but not really more than that.

• Rebuild this chair: Plywood chair
• wishlist
• hp cnc Convert an old HP Deskjet 980 into a 2 axis CNC drill
• Inspired by XKCD comic 363 build a similar sign.

A way to organize my brain, just dump things here and wait till they are ready to become a concrete plan.

• audio behang
• SpokePOV
• clock
• sound recording
• wiki improvements
• atmel, for reference only.
• pic, maybe to have some choice?
• Low power terminal with battery powererd reverse Access point to connect to internet.
• ADB to USB converter for Wacom tablet.
• Mailable circuit with blinking led, mail it everywhere to see wheater or not it arrives.
• Post mail addressed with little information to see if it arrives.
• Create video of fire burning in engine of a car.
• Alarm clock with auto-shutoff sound, then 9 minutes later the 'real' alarm starts.
• iTunes server
• TLS enabled SMTP server with accounts for 1 euro a month or value based.
• CD for cooking or other timing, track 1 is one minute, track 2 is two minutes, 3 is three minutes etc.
• Welcome to Groningen innovation map and timetable. Get you innovation going in Groningen in 3 hours.
• Reinventing apprenticeship in different forms as an alternative to formal education for people
• Crowdsourcing a calendar when and where you can use free Wifi in a city. (Groningen)
• Build my own spectrum 2,4GHz analyser: Hackaday article
• Build all the movements out of 507 mechanical movements utilizing 21st century tech, lasercutters, 3d printers etc.
• Mobile inspiration wall for mobile workers. Don't know yet how that would work, physical or digital?
• Wood print using laserprinter
• Microscope based drill press, already have a motor and drill holder. http://www.instructables.com/id/Micro-Drill-Press/
• Aquaponics, Grow food fast & nice.
• Solder up some LED's in copper tubes. The copper is earth and only one wire connects each LED/resistor combo. Use thin laquered wire, should look funky enough.

• Super simple shutdown button for Raspberry Pi: link and status led
• PinBot, my Pinball machine. Now semi-done.
• Build a Like button with led counter. Done, actually selling them now.
• Classic phone, Version 1 is done, jay! I've got a classic rotary phone with mobile connectivity!
• Atari Punk console, I've been reading praise about the 555 timer for years, wanted to build something with them. This noisemaker it is!
• Most Useless Machine, I've wanted one like this for months, now I built it.
• Power supply, Convert an old ATX powersupply to make it multifunctional.
• Pictureframe, version 1 is long done.
• CC-Flickr, Creative Commons attribution generator for Flickr images. Done
• Toolbox, made an Adam Savage inspired toolbox with near 1st order retrievability (no need to move another tool to get to the one I want).
• Build this Little Wire programmer, with looks similar to this: Adafruit's ArduinoIsp
• Solder up some LED lights for Dome tent lighting at Willekleurig. Started at Minikleurig, finished in time for Willekleurig 2012.

Done but not current anymore, still sortof proud of.

• Aux-in, add an aux-in to a car radio that doesn't have one.
• Bike, my bike is sortofdone for now, it changes gear, it has lights, it brakes ok. (and it was stolen)
• Nslu2, bought 500GB drive.
• Sweex WiFi, add a Sweex WiFi card to my old notebook…
• Apple eMate, usable and it communicates. It's for sale if anyone is interested.

Things I worked on but decided not to finish.

• MSN Webtv 2, threw them out.
• Mythtv, don't own a TV anymore.
• Gallery (Things gallery should do differently)
• scripten
• Mobiel eisen If I replace my mobile phone, what should the new one do to make it an improvement
• embedded usb bluetooth, I have no laptop this would work in.
• architectuur
• coldheat, order a coldheat soldering tool from the Netherlands. Done, it's a crappy soldering iron, has been replaced by a nice Weller.
• Putty, putty configuration using pageant and keys, don't use Windows anymore, so no more Putty.