Projects

Ongoing Projects

(be they personal or collaborative, add them here)

• Building a better Leodis
• Nav Bot I - could fall into the "small robot" category, or the "even smaller robot" category - depends what others build
• Space Automation - monitoring, alerting, automation - it's all here.
• Networked pinball machine
• Flight Simulator Hardware
• BigTrak Hacking
• MendelMax 3D Printer

Project Dreams

(A few things other LHS'ers would like to work on add your dreams or perhaps team up with others to realize one of these)

Robotics

• Big ass robot
• Small robot protect us from the big robot
• A Yet smaller robot to protect us from the small robot.
• BEAM robotics - preferably solar powered
• Autonomous blimp

Components

• Arduino (lighting, ethernet shield) http://www.oomlout.com
• Sewing - wearable tech
• RFID (Nabzfog, opening doors over SSH, 'Making Things Talk)

Hardware

• Laser and/or plasma cutter
• 3D printer - RepRap
• 3D laser scanner [1]
• MicroPrinter (http://tomtaylor.co.uk/projects/microprinter/)
• OpenWRGT self contained wifibox

Mechanical Hardware

• Giant Jenga
• Jenga gun [2]
• Giant Jenga gun
• Rube Goldberg machine

Electronic Hardware (toys, interfaces)

• psp midi sequencer
• how many ways can you build a theremin?
• Multitouch surfaces
• Security systems for the space
• Software project with a Monome (http://monome.org/series/)
• USB typewriter [3]
• Wiimote, charged by kinetics (seriously, has no-one done this?)
• LED Game of Life Lamp/Lampshade
• LED compass belt (similar projects exist)
• Arduino powered, Nerf armed, twitter duelling apparatus
• Baker Tweet concept applied to something else (http://www.bakertweet.com/)
• Physical device using Bluetooth to connect to custom iPhone app (possible from v3 of the iPhone OS)
• Aeroquad (hoverbot) [4]
• ChessBot: a robot that can play chess by means of camera + memory + arm.
• miyagiBot: a robot to test how fast a reaction you can get from a homebrew bot, high fps camera(or two) + chopsticks(simple arm to start with so it can practice catching balls).
• x0xb0x: http://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/
• http://xkcd.com/363/
• TheWatcher: a mechanical head with two cameras for eyes that follow faces(facial recognition to centerize) and moves it head if the cameras are about to reach their maximum angle.
• whirltle: a test to see if kettles boil faster with a fan circulating the water.

Software

• Face recognition app, add clothes or masks ala a particular anime programme, or crowd sourced so you know who people are if they know your friends.
• Tree identification & AI - taxonomic key etc
• Betting on twitter users. You guessed that "Stephen Fry will make 25 tweets tomorrow". you win 20 credits!
• Augmented Reality Ghosts in Leeds.
• OSM coverage of Holbeck needs work (so we have a lovely hackspace map)
• Food recipes. Timer for apps, websites, desktop, mobile.

Furniture

• Outdoor table and bench
• Barbecue
• Beanbags

Big Hardware & Dangerous Things

• Big hardware, with engines ... cars, bikes, preferably steam powered, Stirling engines
• Electric trike
• Toffee hybrid rocket. Mmmm toffee. [5]
• Homebrew renewable energy generation (car alternator/battery wind turbine, anyone?)

Other

• Brewing (alkyhol), hopefully a range of full-mash Hackspace beers - WE NEED TO BREW TCP/IPA
• Replacing traditional incandescent/fluorescent lights with LEDs that are sufficiently bright