introduction

Theme Song

Theme: the secret of Creativity

The Guitar Center story
- How Bob Dylan Writes songs

Ken's story about an inventor
- 3x5 cards with modifiers
- Found in the book "Conceptual blockbusting"

Commodore Joystick ideas

The Fatman nickname story
- Los Angeles to Austin Texas in 85-86
- the Fatman of Austin
- George's early jobs

- Intellivision with Keith Robinson and Dave Warhol
- Serious Software
- Atari
- The great Crash of '83
- selling T-shirts & keychains
- Bill Kuhn
- Doodad convention thefts

- extruded aluminum clock
- shoehorn
- khadaffi toilet paper

Drawing of the Inner Loop
- nobody cares for money
- do stuff, have fun
- follow your bliss

- giant leaps of imagination that fool us out of our boundaries.

Why to buy a Rolls-Royce

Cat Eyes

- how does it work
- electro-lumnescent phosphor
-thin and flexible
-steps to make a display
- substrate
- transparent conductor
- tin oxide
- phosphor
- dialectric
- conductors

- Apply it to an instrument
- surface or shell of a drum

- microphonic switch
-light organ (70's)
- sound sensitive christmas lights
- rickenbacker guitar

- how to light a surface
- will it work on clothes
- shirt VU meter
- avoid stiffening clothes
- impregnate material
- many layers

- cost and toxicity

-cub scout craft project?

Possible Next items
- Analog synth
- dance party machine
- Dr.Mad Mad box

Theme Song

Jonathan Coulton blogs that he's coding

Theme Song Recording session

Chicken to be modified (bluetooth chicken?)

Rubber chicken Bagpipes
-non working
-1st project horseshoe

Rubber Chicken on a server

Plush musical toy
- humping dog
- screaming chicken

Trumpet stand

Trombone stand

The "Legend of Neil" Animatronic Skeleton

Cat Eyes - 100v step up circuit

The Tase-Ouzo game

Pill Bottle electronics road kit

How to get tweezers past airline security

Intro

Theme music

Slogan for today:
We are not going to attempt to scare away viewers

Trumpet stand
-plunger
-weighted base
-barbell

Trombone stand
-microphone stand
-cable ties
-sonic sword
-free reverb

The 'Legend of Neil' Animatronic Skeleton
-parody of Zelda
-3 talking skeletons
-joltin jack
-alternate skeleton
-transfer animatronics
- 2 motors

Quote: Did Werner Von Braun spend this much time on toy

skeletons? We sorta know that Feynman probably did.

- boring stuff for Employers all the time.
- this instead of TV and video games
- Viewers can do this too.

Looking for new suggestions to hack Billy Bass.
- 10 on hand

Line 6 VariAx
- modeling software inside
- does various guitars
- adds characteristics of different guitars
- massive amounts of math.
- If guitar player had to pick, he'd get lost.
- one knob to pick
- Cat5 for network connection

- Marcus Ryle - inventor
- Marcus also invented
- ADAT
-the POD
- theory of design
- add one new knob

Cat Eyes - continued
- Generate 100v without the big Transformer
- new circuit
- 5x voltage multiplier
- diodes + capacitors
- have to oscillate voltage
- 20v in, 100v out
- electroluminescent ink is persistent

The Tase-Ouzo game
- voltage up means amperage down
- taser made from electric lighter
- metal tape
- the bottom shocks them
- the game is to drink until you start tasering.
- argues with physics topping game design.
- everyone gets
- taser
- Bottle of Ouzo
- a Fez that says "I am playing"

Reversing step-down transformers as a kid
- power in them in reverse
- 9v to 100v
- has to be pulsed
- make the battery detachable.

Pill Bottle electronics road kit
- Electronics are never on Site
- surface mount parts on tape
- resistors
- chip resistors
- capacitors
- solder and solder wick
- tumble to find the part.

How to get tweezers past airline security
- taped into pen cap

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Guys in Vancouver WA
- playing the worst game for charity
- Desert Bus
- drive to from LA to Las Vegas

Electroluminescent ink
- surface of musical instrument
- surface of a toy

FPGA synthesizer/Distortion box

Heads up display prototype

Animatronic Skeleton Update

Guide to Mini-Moog Voyager

Foot pedal design

Welding a Rolls-Royce part

Theme Song

FPGA synthesizer/Distortion box
- Guitarhero-style controller
- autopsy of parts
- platform of interface experiments
- touch resistive
- pressure sensors
- Progress so far
-arm7 processor and 120ping gate FPGA
-AD converters

Guitar effects have racy names
- The big Muff
- Bass Balls
- cool distortion pedal
-the Big MILF

Stuff I don't understand room
- pro audio room
- where's the guitar that Devo plays

Bomb Drop
- singing card toilet flush
- bathroom glass tile LED flush
- christmas lights motorized display
- mounted on keychains
- light pods with unique addresses
- random scatter
- computer maps the lights by webcam
- draw the picture you want on computer
- buildings, stadiums
- wireless
- range/proximity effects

Heads up display prototype
- cowboy hat with gyro mouse
- partially satisfactory
- mouse button footpedal
- issue with head/eyes not matching
- gross movement with head
- fine movement with the eyes
- on the cusp of doable.
- can a webcam tell where you are looking?
- eyeball reflection
- ir

old school handset
- bluetooth
- already done on thinkgeek
- selling to people that should make them
- what other bluetooth ideas are there?
- billy bass?
- shoe
- fisher-price phone
- bluetooth built into glasses
- bluetooth sockpuppet
- move hand to work it
- puppet talks automatically
- Dial-me Elmo

Nicknames
- Scientistes
- Creationists (cannot use)
- Semi-pro creators
- DIY-hards

Skeleton Update
- animatronics working
- voice samples installed
- mouth moves and gestures
- a little fragile
- want a more complicated animatronic
- more armatures
- midi samples

Guide to Mini-Moog Voyager
- Great Classic Sounds
- good that it sounds good
- bad that it sounds good
- nerd cable
- 5v control voltages
- hacking panels
- ExcaliBurrito

Foot pedal design flaw
- knobs on the floor
- pedals on the table
- external hookups for pedals
- lawnmower throttle foot control

Learning to Weld
- ladies home welding kit
- fearful of welding
- goal: fix car part
- Book: "how to weld Damn near Anything"
- test welds
- cast iron lid handle test
- post mortem
- does not stick to cold metal
- welding the car exhaust
- ran out of exhaust before finished

End Theme

Greeting the chatroomers

Blowing up gas in a can

Interviewing George's kid
- it's weird
- he's travelling more
- stupid while a genius

Cars
- white lightning
- art car from hell

keypad is reversed on KVM
- 7,8,9 is 1,2,3
- Dave Govett gag.

Hydrostatic car
- single speed motor
- motors at each wheel
- improved turning design
- automatic through hydraulics

GHX music-maker
- chording

Big Thanks to Scientiste R124C41+ for all the great indexing work!!