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My bike was stolen from dinkytown (como) area this weekend.. It's a blue Kabuki road bike with pink grip tape on drop handle bars and a newer womens sport seat and stickers on the frame.. if you see anyone riding this bike (zombie kill them) or see it listed for sale anywhere let me know.. :( Kara
Many of them, under a pound, all LED powered, and all of them run off batteries.
Here are the noteworthy ones, in order from best to worst imho:
InFocus Work Big LP120
Toshiba TDP-FF1AU
Mitsubishi Pocket Projector PK20
Boxlight Bumblebee
I had them make a few alterations----
Hey All--- just thought i would send an update--- i had surgery this morning--- in doing well--- my mouth is wired shut--- an interesting experience---
since we are all visual beings--- here is a pic for you all to enjoy--- see you all later---
So we made it all the way to East bank before poor Ben had an unfortunate run-in with some well-hidden cement stairs. His jaw was broken in two places and will require re-constructive surgery. His spirit was not broken, though, as he requested that we document his experience and that we continue the outing while he was escorted to the hospital. Stay well sedated Ben!! :)
After a dramatic start, we had a very successful outing.
David S., Andrea and Amelia rocked it with their project testers.
Here are some more pictures.
Andrea took some video, perhaps she'll put it up soon... (hint hint!)
JP Hungleman joined us for some live beats.
Also learned that we can run 2 projectors off 1 generator for a surprisingly long time.
Footage of projects on silos: Download file
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Weather is looking good for this Wednesday evening...
this is one of the bikes. pre speaker cabinets and color coded cords or lens caps
here is a pic of the bike on its experiment marathon
Last night was a test run for people to try various videos &c. that they have been working on. We discovered some things, projection on black glass ie Carlson does not really work. Projection on bricks seems difficult unless the image is primarily light colored. Also seems it would be better if there was not a lot of contrast between the mortar and brick color. Everything worked with the generator till we ran out of gas. then we borrowed power from exterior outlets, of which there seems to be a plethora of on campus.
see below, Dave, meta or something and a test image for my Ebenezer project
Let it be known that 'Art on Wheels' will, on Thursday evening (April 17), have a "getting to know you" outing with our contraptions. Be sure to reserve a laptop through checkout if you need to. Let's meet at the entrance of Regis-West at 8 pm.
Cheers and glad tidings!
Doing some more research on making the bikes run without batteries....
Seems that with an inverter like this one, or this one, and a deep cycle battery like one of these, we may be able to provide enough juice.
Any volunteers for looking into charging these specific parts with solar?