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<div dir="ltr">Hi Chris,<div><br></div><div>Back when I was a student, my roomate and I built furniture using cardboard and duct tape. There was a place on bank street that put out a lot of card board angles every recycling day, about 1 or two blocks south of sunnyside. I think the place was Elite home decorating. The angles had legs of about 2" and were composed of densely laminated layers. </div><div><br></div><div>Using sheet metal screws, I was able to form rough I-beams C-channels, as well as using the base angle for trusses. I was able to build a two tiered shelf holding up books and my printer with limited sag development over the course of months.</div><div><br></div><div>You didn't specify what the ramps would be for, but I think pedestrian traffic wouldn't be too hard. If you build it right, I think these things could be used to build a ramp structure that could support lawn tractors, 4 wheelers, etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that gives you some ideas.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">From: tbp@ghostwise.com<br>To: lab@artengine.ca<br>Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 14:58:22 -0400<br>Subject: Re: [Lab] Open Question: What are you working on?<br><br><div><br></div><div>Hi!</div><div><br></div><div>I was surprised there weren't more replies to this question so I thought I'd share my projects. </div><div><br></div><div>1) Art Project: Ventilator input controlling projector. This project received lots of attention and advice</div><div>on the list. I've been slowly collecting all sorts of pieces to put it together, including a Raspberry Pi. With </div><div>the Summer arriving soon, I've put off the completion of this project until September / October. I still plan</div><div>on working on the programming / set up over the summer. </div><div><br></div><div>2) Mobile Light and Soundsystem. I would like to transform my powerwheelchair into a mobile light and dj</div><div>system. I've ordered lots of EL wire and LED strips. Sound triggered controllers. USB back up batteries. USB</div><div>and audio cables. A 400 watt portable PA. Planning to connect both an iPhone and an iPad to the PA. </div><div><br></div><div>Main challenges: Wiring, mounting everything on my powerchair and making it look cool!</div><div><br></div><div>Biggest challenge: Mounting the PA (weighs 10 lbs) in front of my legs to the footrests. This is one thing I need</div><div>to find someone capable to help me with. </div><div><br></div><div>3) Mobile GoPro filming set up. This one is roughly in place. GoPro mounts to my powerchair. I've got extended</div><div>cables to hook it up to a USB back up battery to deal with extended use. Figured out how to mount my iPhone at</div><div>my fingertips so I can remotely control the GoPro. Just need to put it all together and do a test run. </div><div><br></div><div>4) Mounting iPad to my powerchair. Commercial solutions for mounting a tablet to a wheelchair already exist. </div><div>Just a matter of ordering one and making sure I can securely attach it to powerchair. </div><div>Also planning to use the tablet mount as an easel for small canvases. </div><div><br></div><div>5) iPhone 4 super case: I currently have two cases for my iPhone 4. One allows me to attach it to a tripod. The</div><div>other allows me to use it on my desk upright because it acts like a stand. </div><div>I would like to merge these two cases into one so I don't have to constantly slide the iPhone out of these cases</div><div>when I'm going out. </div><div><br></div><div>6) Possibly mounting my iPhone with a Galileo so that I can control it with the iPad. </div><div><br></div><div>7) Cardboard ramps: Long term idea to build cheap, super strong ramps made out of cardboard. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Projects # 2-6 are my summer fun projects. Hoping in the next month to get them all going in some form. </div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has any advice or leads for the PA mount, I'd really appreciate it!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div><br><div><div>On 2-May-13, at 11:14 AM, Jason Cobill wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><blockquote><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br></div> I thought it might be interesting to pose a couple of open-ended questions to the modlab group, to find out more about what people are doing, and how we can help eachother.<br> <br></div> - What are your current projects?<br></div> - What is a project you would like to do, but lack a skill, tool, or a component?<br><br></div><br> I'll go first. :) I usually have a long list of projects on the go, but one of my new year's resolutions was to try to stay focused on just a few things to get them done. My shortlist right now is:<br> <br></div> - An Alexander Graham Bell-inspired tetrahedral kite.<br></div> Before the fixed wing airplane 'took off', AGB believed if you built a kite big enough and rigid enough, you could put an engine on it and fly away. I saw a model of his super-kite, the "frost king" at the aviation museum and decided I had to build one. :) I'm making it out of dollar-store kebab skewers and tissue paper, so so far I've got about 6 feet of it built. Hoping to put a camera on it and launch it this month. (where I expect it to spectacularly disassemble itself in mid-air)<br> <a href="http://www.nationalgeographicstock.com/comp/01/975/599395.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nationalgeographicstock.com/comp/01/975/599395.jpg</a><br><br></div> - Fireproof stamps<br></div> I spend time at a glassblowing studio, wondering how to bring new creative ideas into the very very old tradition of glasswork. I'm currently caught up in the notion of making textured stamps I can use to push into the bottom or side of a drinking glass - but 2300C glass tends to make easily-carve-able stuff burst into cinders. I'm experimenting with carved graphite, water-soaked wood, and ceramics.</div> <div><br><br></div><div> Projects I'm stuck on:<br></div><div> I'd like to build a bicycle or wind-powered generator, and I have an alternator, battery, and some big electrical motors out of an old car to build it with, but high-voltage electricity is not my area of expertise and I'm stumped on the inverter wiring. Anyone done this before?<br> </div><div> There's a couple of great books at the library that I thought I'd check out, but I haven't had the motivation to borrow them yet. Maybe in the fall?<br></div><div><br><br></div> -Jason Cobill<br> </div> _______________________________________________<br>Lab mailing list<br>1. subscribe <a href="http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab" target="_blank">http://artengine.ca/mailman/listinfo/lab</a><br>2. then email <a href="mailto:Lab@artengine.ca">Lab@artengine.ca</a></blockquote></div><br><br>_______________________________________________
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