JaxHax Makerspace

Here’s some stuff that’s been done around the space lately in addition to floor painting and organizing.

Ronnie’s Metal Flowers

Gas bike

Generator Bike

The new motor controller for the Power Racing Cart with Anderson plugs for the motor and battery.

Various railroad spike knives made by various members in various stages of completion. VARIOUS!

Making the door to the electronics lab a little better decorated and making a place to keep excess boards too.

Potato GladOS, She didn’t want to be mounted to the door, but we had to hook her up to a battery her own size since the potato didn’t cut the mustard.

One of our members Trey Kirkland has been working on adapting a simple Arduino Pong setup that was posted to Make Magizine’s site a couple years ago to run on a pair of 8×8 LED displays. Here’s some photos of his prototype unit, all hand wired and he’s grown the code base for it from about 7 to 15 printed pages as well as debugging a lot of the original code and making it two-player workable.

Here’s some photos and a quick video of it as it was last Tuesday, but he’s been adding to it so quickly who knows what it’ll look like by next week!

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Dan, Ronnie, Chad, Travis and a pile of other folks have been prepping the electronics room for painting, organizing, and general cleanup for the impending Linux class on the second, so tonight we cleared out and painted some of the electronics room floor. Here it is, more photos from the in-progress if I can unbork my phone!

1: Ancient subterranean Persian AC/water deliver systems
2: A happy laptop infiltrating a couple layers of DMZ and internal network
3: Listings of possible classes
4: Remnants of describing sawtooth waves
5: The face of a magic eye vacuum tube

For some time I’ve been jealous of the Power Racing Series run by some spaces up near Detroit. http://www.powerracingseries.org/ It’s basically souped up Power Wheels cars raced by teams made mostly from hackerspaces with under $500 budgets on the build.

I picked up a discarded Barbi Jeep, and with that and some random stuff around the space have been building up a power racing kart.

The Jeep started out innocently enough as a Barbie Jeep in a nice purple color.

Rear end from a three wheeled bike

Rough mockup of the parts

– Part of the steering rack made in steel

– Rough frame

– Drive train close to complete with 250w 24v motor.

– A fresh coat of paint

– First assembly able to drive it

– A failed attempt at a motor controller

As it stands now it’s far from complete, but far enough along to be ridable with some caveats:

1: the steering is in reverse

2: there’s only “Flintstone” brakes. I’ve got a caliper that need installing

3: it has no speed control other than “Off” and “HOLY CRAP!”.

I’ve got a motor controller and throttle on order now from here http://www.monsterscooterparts.com/24vo50unscco.html and am looking forward to finishing it and taking it for a test drive.

We have a fancy new door locking system for our front door courtesy of Wayne.

If you have not been added to the new door system yet, and are a member, please contact Wayne, Luis, Chad, or Ronnie to be added to the new door system. They can be reached via facebook, the forums, or via their phones if you have their numbers.