May 2012
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May 16th
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April 2012
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Realtime Project - Ferroseismic Promo Video We managed to film our project working today in all it’s glory, and I was pretty impressed with the results. Give it a watch (fullscreen) and see what you think…
Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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Realtime Project - Motors Working!! This video is showing the motors now working with 2 AA batteries instead of one 6volt battery.
Apr 21st
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Realtime Project - Dancing Ferrofluid Here’s a quick video showing the Ferrofluid reacting with the motor underneath in what is a pretty impressive little dance.
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Realtime Project – Glass Cont… Today Luke and I met up again in university to see if we could find some glass Petri dishes. Luke turned up a little later than we had arranged and I was ready to start shouting, but he had the biggest smile on his face, and he revealed 4 of the sexiest glass Petri dishes I have ever seen. All I can say is “God bless you Smithers!”   We instantly put some Ferrofluid...
Apr 18th
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Realtime Project – The Motor Moves The Fluid! This video shows the Ferrofluid reacting to the magnet attached to one of our motors. I’ve got a feeling this is the first time we’ve tried to move the Ferrofluid without holding a magnet in our hands. Thank god it worked!!
Apr 17th
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Realtime Project –  Glass So the Ferrofluid turning the Petri dish brown got me thinking and I found my old vile of Ferrofluid still suspended in water, and it has no staining on the glass what so ever. I brought this into Uni to show Luke and we both decided it’s one of two things, 1) because it’s in glass, and not plastic like our Petri dishes, or 2) because our Ferrofluid was gone-off (really...
Apr 17th
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Apr 15th
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Realtime Project – Work In Progress Here’s a little time-lapse of Luke & myself working hard on our Realtime Project!!
Apr 15th
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March 2012
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Mar 9th
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Realtime Project – Earthquake RSS to Relay This is another video showing Processing pulling in Earthquake data but this time it is assigning the data to 4 different outputs like I mentioned before. Therefore this is showing 2 motors a buzzer and an LED all showing the Earthquake data.
Mar 8th
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Realtime Project – Earthquake RSS to Relay This video shows Processing pulling in Earthquake data and assigning it to two different realays. The code does actually allow it to work with4 but we only have two relays at the moment so the in the place of the other two we have been using an LED and a buzzer.
Mar 8th
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Mar 6th
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Realtime Project –  RSS Driving DC Motor “Fan” This video is showing the motor working off the RSS data, but we added a square bit of cardboard to show the speed of which we can control the motor. it also got use thinking about how big the wheel we are going to attach to the motor should be.
Mar 2nd
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Realtime Project – Earthquake RSS Driving DC Motor This video is showing the motor working off the RSS data we are pulling off the website in realtime.
Mar 2nd
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Mar 1st
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Mar 1st
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February 2012
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Feb 28th
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 15th
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Feb 13th
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Feb 9th
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Feb 5th
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Ferrofluid & Electromagnets Demo Here is a video of the Ferrofluid suspended in water reacting to the electromagnet, that is being controlled by a random number generator in Processing that is simulating a live RSS data feed from the Ecoid.
Feb 1st
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January 2012
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Jan 26th
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Electromagnet Pulsing at Coin This video shows the electromagnet pulsing via the Arduino board!
Jan 25th
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LED Varying Brightness This is a video of Processing generating random numbers, which in turn cause the LED to be lit at different levels of brightness!
Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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THE MAGNETRON Here’s a video of the magnetron in all it’s working glory… Not quite what we imagined, especially after seeing the promo video of it here!
Jan 24th
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Jan 21st
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Processing - Arduino - LED Fade on/off Here’s a video of an LED fading on and off, using processing.
Jan 18th
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