Business card caliper
This is a project I've been experimenting with at Techshop Durham. It is a laser cut business card that folds up to create a working caliper. I'll probably make some for myself, Rod-o-Rama, and lintqueen.
The card in "ready to hand out" mode
Card assembled, ready to use. These particular examples were actually cut out of paint chip cards (lintqueen's idea).
After snapping out parts.
Folding over the slide
Next step in assembly.
Assembly completed.
In action, measuring an 8mm hex key. Accuracy and precision are not too bad for something folded out of paper.
It's cut and engraved with the epilog laser cutter at Techshop Durham. Initial design scratched out on paper, transferred to Inkscape, final tweaking in Corel Draw (actualy, lots of tweaking, since it did a horrible job importing the svg).
It still needs some refinements, like better instructions and possibly an illustration or two. I have some minor aesthetic tweaks in mind as well, but this version is mostly complete.
The corel draw source file is here. That file could use some cleanup, and I'd like to get it back into a open format like svg, but that will do for now. Consider it under Creative Commons.
Business Card Caliper by Adrian Likins is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.
Based on a work at www.adrianlikins.com.
video killed the irc star
Red Hat Magazine Spotlight on Func
Video put together by Red Hat in which Seth Vidal, Michael DeHaan and I comment intelligently about func.
Or at least, that's what the clever editing will hopefully lead you to believe.
conFUD
The main day of the fudCON talks were today. Seemed to go pretty well. I pitched two sessions, one on OLPCs/Asus EEEs/ultraportables, and another on func.
The OLPC session was more of a meetup/get together than a talk, and seemed to go pretty well. Unfortunately, it got scheduled against the Fedora.tv/Vaniv/Percolote talk, so I missed that.
My real talk was func, and the talk seemed to go well. I tried to keep the slides pretty slim and lightweight, and breezed though them pretty fast, but I think it went okay. I didn't seem to get any of the vaguely aggressive questions in the Q&A these sort of talks usually get, so I'll take that as a win.
Fudcon
I'll be at FudCon this weekend. What is FUDcon? It's like a BarCamp but for Fedora nerds.
I'll be helping with the presentation on Func. I'm writing the slides at the moment. Yay! Slides! If there is anything someone wants me to include (photo, reference, curseword, etc) let me know and I'll see what I can sneak in. My slide presentation philosophy is "leave them confused".
You may also know me from other slides and hackfests like cobbler, pulp, olpc, eee, vidpress, and wknc.
more red hat high
Check out this blendernation article about the blender track at this years Red Hat High. Demo reel of the 3d track included.
More red hat high
Almost finished with Red Hat High week. Check out this Red Hat Magazine article for a better summary than I can provide.
Pretty cool experience. I learned a lot, and I think the students did as well. I hope I can put up some of the tracks they put together this week.
Trying to teach classes of any sort always wears me out. And this week was no exception. I think I need about 40 hours of sleep now.
red hat high
Just spent the morning teaching rising 9th graders how to do basic audio editing and drum machine programming using open source cools on linux machines. They took to it instantly. I need to revise my original curriculum, because I think they are going to blow though it in two days, instead of the week I planned.
And on that note, I could use a couple of instruments and other tools to help. In particular, I could use something like a POD, and an electric bass would be handy too. I have plenty of guitars, and midi controller keyboards.
I also need to find some way to rig up some sort of isolation booth. We had one setup last year, but don't have a good spot for one this year.