belt buckle mould making

Originally uploaded by fridgehead

I've started the mold making process for the companion cube belt buckle. This is the first half of rubber poured, the next half will be done in about 24 hours time once this half has cured

So my girlfriend bought me a hand-casting kit for soft metals for christmas, so being a bit of a portal fan I've started working on a weighted companion cube belt buckle

its pretty much ready for the mould making now, planning that later this week

On the "simons pissed" side of things I've finally completed the prototype for the software side of things, its now running with LED effects for failing and for passing each level. Next plan is to try and run some motors off the arduino (external PSU here I come..).

Finally got the accelerometer extension working for python on my n95 (thanks to this page - reading the number of extensions here is amazing, I'm wondering if theres anything this phone cant do!), it turned out that the .sisx file needs to be signed with a developer certificate. After some lovely CLI work its now signed, uploaded and works a treat!

Its dead easy to use as well:

import pyextaccel

def p(x,y,z):
   print "%i %i %i" % (x,y,z)

pyextaccel.register(p)

That dumps out the status of the 3 axis 20/30 times a second. Might try and control the USB rocket launcher with this, it'd be even cooler if i can pipe the webcam to the phone as well...

I've also managed to knock-up a pretty basic version of Simon using an arduino, 4 push buttons and 4 leds. It handles all the basics for now and probably leaves enough pins free to control the 4 motors needed to pump drinks and maybe some sort of noise generator thingy.
Found some websites selling 50ml syringes that should be good enough to start with, still havent decided on the actual physical form of it all yet though

Just noticed I'm treating this page as a bit of an "idea dump" :p

I've given up with searching for drinks valves, theyre all far too expensive, noisy and complicated for what I need. Instead I'm planning on using 4 syringes which are pushed with motors.

The next technical challenge is to work out if the glass has been drunk and slammed back onto the button. Think I can work this one out...

w00t! my first foray into electronics