23b Wins the welder!

Okay, it's official. We won the welder in the Redbull challenge. Thank you everyone who voted for us!


Lincoln Electric - 23b Wins "People's Choice" award


Arclight

23b Redbull contest - pictures on-line

Hi all,


Check out our gallery pics:

23b Gallery

Other team's photos:
Team i3Detroit
Team Alpha 1 Labs
Nick Normal
Laura

And here are some newspaper articles:

PC World
O.C. Register (article about 23b entry)
PSFK
IEEE Spectrum
CNN Money

Arclight

Just heard..

everything is built, teams start to show their creations to the judges and crowd at 4pm eastern time (1pm pacific). I just heard that 23b is in showcase number 1 so they're coming up in an hour!!

A couple of pictures after the fact

Arclight sent me two pictures of their completed machine, it's a teeter totter!!

Badger Badger Badger

Some of you may haven't gotten messages on facebook or maybe a text message, maybe three text messages, or maybe you read about it in the defcon forums, or from one of your friends begging you to help with a bunch of people you didn't know. A few lucky folks probably got all of that :)

Well, it paid off. I think. We're not entirely sure when they Likes are tallied but as of right now, AFTER the official close of the contest, 23b has 435 likes, i3detroit has 385. Nobody else is even close. If you still haven't voted, drop in and vote please. It's possible that this isn't quite over and every little bit counts :)

Thanks to the 435 of you that have helped us out. as promised, arclight will be giving free welding lessons to the people who liked us! He's going to find out about this as soon as he get's back from new york, wont that be nice?

Lots of new pictures from kim!

not sure how many of you are going to be able to see these on facebook. Hopefully they'll be directly linked from here soon enough

kim's pictures

New pictures from the redbull creation challenge!

http://twitpic.com/5lr65r

In the upper right hand corner of the screen, follow the train of images!

Redbull Team 23b Trolls NY

As requested, here are some pictures of the camp:


23b Getting their troll on (thanks, mmca!)

Some our decorations (note the pink flamingos in the pic above):

OMG! Ponies

Team 23b has arrived in New York

So the team is now situated in our RV at Newtown Barge Park. Amazingly, all of our 150+ lbs of stuff made it through a 2-leg Air Tran flight intact. The TSA tossed everything, but apparently didn't find anything worth confiscating.

Here is a pic:

Going to New York

So we have plane tickets and everything lined up for the Red Bull challenge in New York next month.

For those that missed it, Red Bull sent out an invitation to Hacker Spaces to participate in a "making stuff" contest this Summer. Well, we entered on a whim at the last minute, and made it into the finals. So Red Bull is paying for us to go to New York for the big competition. Check out:

http://redbullusa.com/CREATION

Arclight

Foundry session 5/8/2011

Everyone likes fire. What then, could be better than a machine that runs on fire and converts scrap metal to brand new parts? No, we can't run our foundry indoors at the shop, so it's located at Arclight's house.

Today, Adam and I decided to do a last-minute foundry run. After last week's session (where we got one usable casting and about 10 pounds of fail) we got some new Olivine green sand from IFSCO in Commerce, CA.

This went much better. It took a while to get the sand dialed in, but we got several good castings.

The things we changed were:
-Purchased some Sodium Silicate and tried making professional cores
-Changed out the parting dust from flour to baby powder.
-Made new flasks

Adam is working on a Gingery lathe. The pics below are of making one of the cast Aluminum feet.

Filled molds ready to be shaken out:

Adam K. readying the sand molds


Arclight pouring hot Aluminum



And the finished product:

Open Access Control Project - New Wiki

Our Open Access Control project has now been fully documented. The wiki has full build instructions, wiring tips, monitoring scripts, and more. Check it out:

Arduino based RFID Access Control System

Arclight

Red Bull Challenge

So decided, with about a week to go before the deadline, to build and enter something in the Red Bull hacker space challenge. Check out the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBwHZDUwjdw


Arclight

A minute of silence please

Harry Coover, inventor of Super Glue, has passed on March 26, 2011, at the age of 94. 

His work helped save countless lives during wartime and continues to be used in modern surgery. Of course it is also a staple supply for many, many other industries and hobbyists.

Please join me in a minute of silence today in honor of this true hero of hackers, makers, and workers everywhere.  Pouring one out for you, buddy.





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