Island Labs

project:near_space_launch

john a. — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:36:03 -0500

Island Labs has successfully launched a balloon 29km up and took incredible pictures. Torrent up soon. GO TEAM GO! What The members of Island Labs will assemble a balloon and instrument package, travel to a “safe” inland area, plot an estimated flight path for a several-hour flight, and attempt to track and recover the flight vehicle after landing.

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Jonathan Dahan — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:46:20 -0500

Island Labs is a collective of technology enthusiasts from Long Island, New York. We aim to improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. Some focuses of the group are mechanical, software, electrical, chemical, social, and food engineering. A lot of us are artists, musicians, and generally fun people. \o/ All meetings are open to the public, we have newcomers every meeting. Please see the irc link below to talk with us live now.

project:openpowermeter - Created from the form at project:new

Jonathan Dahan — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:42:11 -0500

or Wondering if it would be better to go with a wired connection or just modify a router...

project:island_lab_coats - Created from the form at project:new

Jonathan Dahan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:27:44 -0500

All of our group activities should be done in crazy white lab coats. Lets organize a group buy, and use tonyb's logo :D projects,, art

project:ledisplay_twitterboard

Jonathan Dahan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:12:12 -0500

Giant Display A window sized LED display can have many uses. * Conway's Game of Life Simulation * Twitter Ticker, message @sbutwits to be viewed by the campus community * Reverse shadow puppets - use a webcam to light up whatever people are doing behind the board

project:led_table-top_christmas_tree_method

Chris — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:46:18 -0500

As was requested... This document explains the process behind developing an LED Table-top Christmas Tree. It was the one that was mentioned in the Newsday article (Sun. 01/10/2010). The specific components of the tree are NOT as important. The tree was developed as a quick project. So, in the development, time was a constraint. Much of this information is apparent. This 4-step process was not as methodical as described.

project:internet_coffee_htcpcp_1.0

Tony B — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:47:58 -0500

Abstract: Design and implement RFC 2324. That's right, a Ethernet enabled coffee pot! The project guidelines can be found here: We take this April fools joke and turn it into reality! :) Design: Modify a coffee maker so one can load a can of coffee into it and also equip it to have a pump to load water into the reservoir. All this would be electronically controlled via HTCPCP/1.0. A Ethernet enabled Rabbit microcontroller [1] would be running the coffee…

project:corn_starch_experiments

Tony B — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:44:22 -0500

make the corn starch dance! projects

project:analogue_computer - Created from the form at project:new

J. Kuczewski — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:29:22 -0500

Abstract: TODO! But look at this for for some ideas. This was just in passing... I will add details later when I think about it. projects, analogue, computer, mechanical, electrical