User:Strages

About Me

I'm a founding member of Makers Local 256 and one of the people that got the idea jump-started along with David back before we had a physical space to work in and were meeting in apartments. This is the one thing I'm most proud of in my life to this date, absolutely no regrets. I come up with a lot of ideas, as evident by my Projects and Notes sections. I'm a big fan of the term "ideasmith". May never get around to working on most of these, but at least they're documented somewhere. If you see a project you like or can contribute to, have at it.

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Contact

My contributions to the wiki.
My Website
My Del.icio.us
My Flickr
My Youtube
strages@gmail.com
IRC: strages
AIM: strages
Yahoo: stragesv3
Gtalk: strages

Projects

Project Name	Description	Status
Section42/The Hive	Section42	classified
Section42/Peeple	Section42	classified
Section42/Zombiebot	Section42	classified
Backpack Payphone	battery powered voip payphone that can be worn like a backpack status	Planning
Victorian Cellphones	belt clipped candlestick phone using voip	Planning
WiFi Tag	think laser tag but with directional 802.11a/b/g/n	Planning
Section42/Bring Popcorn	Section42	classified
Section42/GRLA FM	Section42	classified
Make Shop	a convenient place to make things	Planning third Open House!
pipe	a product to simplify a complex time	Pipe dream, no pun intended :)
PDA magic window	like Magic Screen	Researching
Tablet sandbox	e-zen-garden	Pipe dream
Photobooth Mark I	portable photobooth	Retired please see Photobooth Mark II for further work.
Photobooth Mark II	imporoved portable photobooth	Planning
Multitouch screen	making computing really hands on	Built, working on the software from here on out.
guerilla filesystem	seemingly limitless storage out of the ether	Planning
Lamo's Way or How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love the System	homeless living with a tech twist	Researching
Garden Party	What happens when you take a garden and toss in a little Croquet	Pipe dream
HASAcon	local hacker convention	Planning
Flavor tabs	mouth strips in more than just mint and cinnamon	Pipe dream
A Day in the Life	would go hand in hand with Project Gargoyle	Planning
RSS Gateway	A "DVR" for the Internet	Researching
Human Exploits Database	how not to be predictable	Researching
Mood Music	empathic music	Researching
Scavenger Hunts	does this really need an explanation?	Planning
Transparent Wall	never wonder what's going on in the other room ever again	Researching
L.A.S.E.R. Tag	thank you Graffiti Research Lab	Planning
SOW	Signatures Observed Working, a snort signature testing method	Researching
OpenID	be in control of your ID	Researching
MooFi	empowering cattle everywhere	Pipe dream
Overnet	a proposal	Researching
Urban ghosts	when hearing voices is ok	Researching
Uncleverly named video broadcasting project	I'll fix this later...	Researching
OpenWRT(or equivalent) modular usage	making single use linux devices a lot more flexable	Working, now for package development.
Virtual projector	a functioning projector for virtual worlds	Researching
Wikis, evolving	a video demonstrating a wiki page evolving over time	Researching
Road Race	an annual road race of unknown origin and unknown destination	Researching
WiFi filching	power from nothing....sorta	Researching
Where's the party at?	a public art/prank project	Researching
Section42/Weighted Companion Cubes	Section42	Classified
Macro origami	>48inch tall pieces of origami	Planning
Ball pit	shuttup, it's still fun	Planning
Bawls Bottle Challenge	1. blue bottle 2. ? 3. profit	Planning
Port Royal	2x Loot	Researching
Life Consolidation	a personal project for making my life simpler	Planning
Microscale Weather	a little mad scientisty fun	Researching
Electrodermal energy harvesting	harvesting electricity from people	researching
Section42/Strages's Lab Journal	an account of my near daily visits to the shop	perpetually in progress
Hackerspaces Migratory Box of Electronics Junk	nomadic box of electronics junk traveling between hackerspaces	in progress
PDAs	cataloging olds PDAs and what to do with them	Cataloging
Head Mounted Displays	researching uses/manufacturing of HMDs	Researching
Embedded Devices	researching uses for various devices with various embedded operating systems	Researching
RFID	researching uses for various RFID equipment available	Researching
Video research	researching uses for video recording/editing	Research
Night vision webcam	improved security camera system with less restrictions	Gathering supplies
DIY Dyson fan	reverse engineering the Dyson fan	Researching
Reprap Mendel	project page for the reprap build	Assembly
BPM Personal Modeler 2100	a page for keeping up with the restoration and operation of this ground breaking 3D printer	Repurposing 3 axis table
TEDxHuntsville	ideas for being a part of TEDxHuntsville	Researching
Uscream.tv	live streaming your haunted house experiences with people all over the world	Planning
Tech expo	A technology expo demonstrating what Makers Local 256 can do	completed
Global Synchronus Hackathon	A global synchronous hackathon held across the world at multiple hackerspaces	monthly planning
Hackerspaces Meetup	hackerspaces getting together to collaborate and invent	planning
Retro Gaming & Computing Night	a night of nostalgia with nothing newer than 16 bit	Planning
2D barcodes	research into the capabilities and usages of 2D barcodes	Researching
Hackerspace whiteboards	Flickr group showcasing hackerspace whiteboards.	Working
Augmented reality	a research page	researching
Multitouch	a research page containing methods, hardware, and software.	Researching
Cameras	an inventory page of cameras at the shop.	Researching
Destructables	an Instructables like site for taking things apart with the added bonus of indexed parts!	Planning
Lego box	an 8'x4' playfield for Legos that folds shut containing the Legos inside.	Researching
Toy Gun Cabinet	a cabinet for housing all our awesome toy guns	Researching
Competitive Cable Detangling	self explanatory	Planning
3D printing	the different methods of 3D printing	Research
BEAM pitcher plant	BEAM robot in the style of a pitcher plant	Researching
Inspiration map	an attempt to figure out where some projects comes from	work in progress
Huntsville Open Manufacturing meetup	a monthly meeting of folks interested and working with open manufacturing	active
Bucket List Festival	a weekend with a higher probability of knocking a good chunk out of your bucket list	Planning
Emergent Network Field Day	building up a tiny "internet" for disaster stricken areas	Planning
Exocortex (strages)	attempting to map my information IO	Development
In the News	a page showing the online mentions the group gets	work in progress
LibRel	a library relevancy project	researching
Snow machine	a snow making machine	awaiting testing
Penny tray site	take a penny, leave a penny	thinking it over
Emergent Mesh	self sustaining wifi mesh	building-out nodes
Multiseat gaming box	multiplayer single pc gaming	planning
Universal laser tag	one system to rule them all	thinking
Treadle computer	a user powered computer	gathering materials
VR rig	a virtual reality rig because we've waited long enough	working on it
Timeline	creating appreciation for where we are	planning
Laboratory	my plans for creating a field laboratory	Researching

Talks

Project Name	Description	Status
Outerz0ne 3 talk	first public talk	Done
November 2600 '07 talk	Better Living Through Chemicals	Done, presentation to be uploaded later
Outerz0ne 4 talk	energy harvesting	Planning
February '08 2600 talk	Fun with Google	Delayed
Fun with Flickr	?	Done

Notes

This will be a place where I store all the random notes I take while researching things and brainstorming. Feel free to use these notes to inspire your own projects. I recommend everyone else doing this as well.