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Sat, 16 Apr 2011 23:29:44 -0400

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I went on a day trip to Lamma Island in Hong Kong. We stayed longer than expected and discovered an amazing thing: the ocean is full of these bioluminescent algae that glow this surreal blue when disturbed. Here is a video from the boat trip back. It was really incredible. Even more fun to swim in, but i didn't have an easy way to film that.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:44:47 -0500

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Here's my friend and collaborator Sunil explaining how to thread the belt onto the Y Idler assembly during the build process on a RepRap machine. This was done at Medialab Prado during Interactivos '09.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, medialab, prado and interactivos

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:28:06 -0500

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This is a funky pumpy thingimajig that I made for an art show. It pumps, it pulses, and its glittery and awesome.

If you want one of these pumps, get yourself a lasercutter and head over to: thingiverse.com/thing:167

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: pump, peristaltic pump, art, paint, mad science and thingiverse

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:37:26 -0400

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Laser cutting plastics that contain chlorine (aka PVC) is bad. It releases dangerous chlorine gas which is corrosive. Adam wanted to etch his laptop safely, so we needed to identify the plastic in his lid.

To do this, we used Science. There is a guide on how to identify polymers based on a series of tests. We used the copper wire test and deduced that his laptop was safe to etch. Yay!

More info here: chymist.com/Polymer%20Identification.pdf

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: nyc resistor, lasers, plastic, science and burnination

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:15:19 -0400

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We stopped at an unnamed vista along the Oregon coast. It was a cloudy/foggy day but it was still pretty.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken and Jen Dunlap

Tags: oregon, coast, ocean and roadtrip

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:38:24 -0400

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Angel's Island is this kickass, sort of deserted island with a mysterious past. Its in the middle of the SF bay, you have to take a ferry out to it, and they only have 9 primitive campsites (well, 10 if you count the kayak only campsite).

After the day tourists leave, you're basically the only one on the island and its really rad and spooky with all the abandoned army / immigration buildings that are in various states of decay.

Plus, theres an old missile silo on the island. So. Rad.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken and Jen Dunlap

Tags: angels island, bay area, camping and beach

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:32:53 -0400

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A few minutes of the famous and gorgeous coastal Highway 1 in California. Make a promise to yourself to drive down it at least once in your life.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken and Jen Dunlap

Tags: california, highway 1, gorgeous, ocean and roadtrip

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:52:56 -0400

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a freaky looking storm rolled across NYC the other day. here's the shot from the vimeo office. i got it on sd card.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: storm, timelapse, connected ventures, cv and vimeo

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:12:03 -0400

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This is a new board I've made, called the Sanguino. Its an Arduino compatible board based on the beefy atmega644P chip. Its got 64k of flash, 4k of ram, and 32 GPIO pins. Its pretty sweet!

Check it out: sanguino.cc

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, sanguino, arduino, rrrf and physical computing

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:12:17 -0400

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I did some casting this last weekend with a mold that I made. Its a fun little process so I decided to make a timelapse of it. Check it out!

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, casting and smoothon

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:21:49 -0400

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We did it! Arduino is fully ported to the atmega644: bootloader and core libraries both work great. I have a prototype board in production right now, and we just need to hash out the collaboration details with the Arduino core team. Once that is done, you'll be able to get your hands on an awesome, cheap, and powerful Arduino compatible board.

Yay!

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, arduino, atmega644 and hacking

Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:01:57 -0400

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My new friend online, Jordan Miller, has been doing a series of renderings in Blender of a RRRF.org logo. They look awesome and I wanted to share them with you.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, rrrf and blender

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:59:16 -0400

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I'm in the process of porting the Arduino environment to the atmega644 for a skunkworks project I'm working on. This chip is awesome because it has 4x the flash (64k vs 16k) it has 4x the RAM (4k vs 1k) and 12 more I/O pins (32 vs 20)

Its the biggest and baddest atmel chip that has a DIP version that I could find.

Here is a video of my first major success where I wrote and uploaded an Arduino sketch to it.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: arduino, megarduino, woot, raprap and reprap

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:43:59 -0400

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Me building an Opto Isolator board. More info: make.rrrf.org/oi-1.0

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, electronics, make and timelapse

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:15:15 -0400

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Its been a while, but I finally got my machine back in action and printing. Yay!

I ran out of time last night, but I'll have more videos and timelapses soon!

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, minimug, replicator and 3d printer

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:27:05 -0400

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Jen takes us on a tour through our new apartment. Woo!

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken and Jen Dunlap

Tags: apartment, tour, small apartment, awesome and shackin up

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:55:36 -0400

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Warning: this board is completely awesome.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: nycresistor, danger shield, arduino and awesome

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:49:34 -0400

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My BFF and deskmate Sox made an amazing discovery: Chocolate Skittles.

Watch the vimeo and see our reactions.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken, Andrew Pile, Soxiam, Ted Roden and Patrick Moberg

Tags: vimeo, chocolate, skittles, chocolate skittles and candy

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:53:20 -0400

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Its a syringe based extruder prototype I designed! Lasercut acrylic + off the shelf parts. Hell yeah.

Shh... its a 'secret' project though.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, syringe and extruder

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:09:52 -0400

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One of the nice side benefits of our recent work into having the host output GCode, and having the Arduino process that GCode is that we can reduce the delay between line segments by buffering GCode to the Arduino.

Here's a video demonstrating the movement.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, arduino, gcode, line segments, fabber and replicator

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:21:51 -0500

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Sign on with the NYC Resistors. You've got mail!

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: modulate, demodulate and lol

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:34:30 -0500

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I had my first real visit to the FabLab as a fellow. Jon guided me through using the ShopBot software to create a CNC cut bed for my RepRap machine! Yay for computers and robots.

More info:
ssbxfab.org - Sustainable South Bronx Fab Lab
reprap.org - Self Replicating 3D Printer

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, fablab, shopbot, cnc and robots

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:02:03 -0500

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My first 'real' shot at printing something. I dont quite have all the parameters perfected yet, so the print doesnt come out quite as I had hoped, but its a beginning.

Also, this is 2 separate prints rolled into one. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to film this and hopefully the next ones will be better. I'd love to mount the camera on the extruder itself =)

reprap.org

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, 3d printer, robot and awesome

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:30:14 -0500

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Here's my robot 'printing' its not doing so well, but its still on its baby legs.

ps. thats a weak 'sike' at the end.

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: reprap, print, robot and promo

Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:55:06 -0500

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My first 'real' weekend at the NYC Resistor space. I spent it building a new robot for a friend while the other peeps started work on the loft in the background.

ps. sorry about the nickelback... its all i had ;)

Cast: Zach 'Iowa' Hoeken

Tags: nycresistor, resistor, robots and reprap