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Door Sign MK. IV
2006-03-17, 12:36 PM #1
Now with a home-made pan/tilt mechanism:

[http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/7839/pantilt3fi.jpg]

To-do:

-interface the LEDs and motors with the serial port (or the parallel port of my old laptop)
-replace the cardboard with something a little more robust
-figure out a better way to hold it to the door than duct tape
-consolidate all the cables somehow (right now I have 6 or 7 cables of varying sizes, shapes, and colours coming off the inside of my door for power, pan/tilt control, and the signal from the camera and microphone)
-make it easier to control the pan and tilt (the motors currently go too fast)

[Maybe:]
-build some sort of zoom lens
-put a little scrolling LED thing on that can display messages
Stuff
2006-03-17, 12:39 PM #2
Neat. But it's starting to look a little lopsided. :p
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2006-03-17, 12:39 PM #3
Very nice. And cute.
2006-03-17, 12:58 PM #4
It looks super nerdy now.

Put lasers on it.
Epstein didn't kill himself.
2006-03-17, 2:33 PM #5
That is nerdy indeed. :p
Pissed Off?
2006-03-17, 2:49 PM #6
Encase it in something and make it all wireless. That'd be skill.
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2006-03-17, 2:53 PM #7
Meccano! :o

That, sir, is quite funky.
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2006-03-17, 3:02 PM #8
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2006-03-17, 10:52 PM #9
Sign: To all people who might want to come in and raid my room perhaps take my comp and other valuables just check back to when i'm either out or off campus, thnx k bye...

It's cool but on any campus I just wouldnt want people knowing my business
2006-03-17, 11:06 PM #10
If you kick it or try to knock it over does it stand itself back up and keep going?

That thing looks really awesome.
2006-03-18, 5:14 PM #11
That's no sign...that's a space station. *Drama*

Nice. Camera looks a little too bare right now though.
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2006-03-18, 5:25 PM #12
Originally posted by Zloc_Vergo:
Nice. Camera looks a little too bare right now though.

Eh? It's...a camera. Not a JK level. You can't critique it like that.
Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

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