{"id":2514,"date":"2009-11-02T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T19:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2022-12-28T14:22:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T22:22:12","slug":"kit-building-party-photos-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/kit-building-party-photos-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Kit Building Party Photos & Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend I hosted a post-Halloween kit building party<\/a> at MightyOhm HQ.<\/p>\n

Nine close friends built Conway’s Game of Life kits<\/a> from Adafruit Industries<\/a>.\u00a0 This is my favorite kit for these kinds of workshops because it’s easy for beginners to complete in about 2 hours, and when everyone is done, you can wire all of the kits together to create one large cellular automata<\/a> display.\u00a0 The last time I helped people build this kit was at a Make:SF workshop<\/a> at the TechShop in Menlo Park.<\/p>\n

Here’s a timelapse video of the afternoon, shot with a Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro<\/a>\"\" webcam on an Eee PC 4G running Booru Webcam 2.0<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The capture interval was 5 seconds.\u00a0 I used Quicktime Pro<\/a> to stitch the images together at 15fps and iMovie<\/a> to add titles and music (Turbo Outrun by FRP from remix.kwed.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

I wore my Halloween costume for most of the afternoon.\u00a0 What am I?\u00a0 Most people on the streets of San Francisco had no idea…<\/p>\n

\"Kit<\/p>\n

Safety first!
\n\"Kit<\/p>\n

Stuart was the first to finish his kit:
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Soldering the kits together to form the matrix:
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Nine happy kit-builders with the 3×3 matrix they created with their finished kits:
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And lastly, a video of the 3×3 matrix in action:
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Three people had little to no soldering experience at the beginning of the afternoon.\u00a0 Everyone who came went home with a working kit.\u00a0 Success!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend I hosted a post-Halloween kit building party at MightyOhm HQ. Nine close friends built Conway’s Game of Life kits from Adafruit Industries.\u00a0 This is my favorite kit for these kinds of workshops because it’s easy for beginners to complete in about 2 hours, and when everyone is done, you can wire all of … Continue reading Kit Building Party Photos & Video<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,65,10],"tags":[198,299,501,19,34,148,45],"class_list":["post-2514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-kits","category-microcontrollers","tag-adafruit","tag-conway","tag-electronics","tag-make","tag-photos","tag-soldering","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-Ey","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14142,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/oled-display-wifi-interface-lipo-and-battery-voltage-monitoring-for-the-mightyohm-geiger-counter\/","url_meta":{"origin":2514,"position":0},"title":"OLED display, WiFi interface, LiPo and battery voltage monitoring for the MightyOhm Geiger Counter","author":"Jeff","date":"August 4, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Twitter user @joeyhagedorn recently posted photos of his hacked MightyOhm Geiger Counter kit. 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