Arduinos

We are doing some Arduino classes at Xerocraft hackerspace.  I would like to use an Arduino to make a "cell phone controlled sculpture," though I really don't know what I'm doing yet.  However, I'm making this entry to collect all the links and other important information, as I make progress.


Arduino home page

Galileo Arudino

Arduino shields

Processing software
(did they do Man in the Dark with this?)

Leap Motion for Processing

Scratch software

Leap Motion Linux

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The Shieldbot is a small car run by an Arduino.  It is fun letting the Shieldbot run by itself at Xerocraft hackerspace. $69 at Seed online.

Russian refreshments delivered with the Shieldbot

• Shieldbot explanation

• Download the Shieldbot library

• Unzip it and put Shieldbot file into the libraries file of Arduino IDE by the path: ..\arduino-1.0.1\libraries

Free 3D software

Online STL viewer -- Marco Antonini Wiki

Below are the 3D programs I found before Nov 2012, and posted on the Xerocraft forum:

The TinyUrl link to this list is -- tinyurl.com/free-3D-software

(* indicates that I haven't tried it yet)

3D Tin
online software

Wings3D

MeshMixer

Blender

OpenSCAD
3D CAD design software

123D
3D scanning and other 3D software from Autodesk

like:
123D Design


Meshlab
software to view and manipulate 3D objects

SketchUp*

SVG exporter * (Google Sketchup plugin)
for exporting 3D files to be cut on a board in a 2D laser cutter

Smooth Teddy
3D drawing software by Takeo Igrashi

Rhonda 3D*
3D drawing software

Shapeshop*
3D drawing program

K-3D*
3D modeling software

Art of Illusion*
3D modeling software

Vue Pioneer*
3D landscape making software

TopMod*
topological mesh modeling

K3DSurf*
mathmatical models

Scherk-Collins Sculpture Generator*

Sculptris
free 3D sculpture program from Zbrush


ViewSTL*
for viewing 3D files

netfabb Cloud
corrects the errors in STL files
before they are printed on a 3D printer

Repetier*
software for looking at how a file will 3D print

Reconstructme*
free 3D scanning software for the Kinect

Skanect*
free 3D scanning software for the Kinect

OpenSim*
multi-user 3D application server

My3DScanner*
3D scanning from photographs

APPS

Augment
Augmented reality app

Aurasma
Augmented reality app

STLview*
app for viewing 3D files

Mayan Glyphs

I love Mayan art, and would like to screen print in Mayan fonts:

"SRC"

translated into Mayan glyphs

(with online translator below),

and screen printed on a yellow flag,

to announce the beginning of the  "Sculpture Resource Center" float

at the 2012 All Souls Procession in Tucson --

-- note, Josh made up his own "R" glyph,

since the Mayans did not have an "R"

Online Mayan Glyph translator

Krrrl

From the above online Mayan translator

Mayan glyph fonts by Rafael Saldana

(download from his website)

Krrrl

From the fonts above,

installed and typed into Photoshop

Create your own fonts

how to

All the glyphs for "artist"

using the online Mayan dictionary

"tnn_itz_at_a"

means "artist" in Mayan glyph --

very small file

The above very small file,

enlarged and "thresholded" in Photohop,

and then vectorized online with Rapid Resizer

(this is the jpg version of the svg file)

Documentary on deciphering the Mayan alphabet

Mayan mural banner

in front of the Sculpture Resource Center

in Tucson

Contemporary Mayan interpretation,

in a stairwell mural at the Mission Cultural Center,

in San Francisco