[Noisebridge-discuss] Need clever LAST-MINUTE hack to generate fog/steam puffs on demand

[Shannon Lee]

1.  Get a soldering iron.
2.  Get a bucket of water.
3.  Put the soldering iron in the bucket of water.
4.  Steam!

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Aaron Muszalski <sfslim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okay Noisebridgers -
>
> Feeling all flush from the accolades rightfully laden upon ye by
> Elinor Mills' excellent CNET article? http://tr.im/GelB
>
> Than it's once again time to prove your mettle! Your lightning genius,
> your engineering prowess!
>
> Here's the task:
>
> As many of you know, David Fine, Jonathan Moore and myself are
> creating a sculpture to be exhibited at Roboexotica - a festival of
> cocktail robots - in Vienna this week. The sculpture (working title
> "The Miraculous Robo-Christ Stigmatatron") takes the form of a 4'x8'
> crucifix upon which is hung a lifesize anthropomorphic robot - the
> Robo-Christ - who, due to a clever plumbing trick, will be able to
> MIRACULOUSLY convert water into wine.
>
> This project has taken on an increasingly collaborative nature, with
> many Noisebridgers lending their time and skills to bring it into
> existence. So much so that it's really become more of a Noisebridge
> artwork than any single person. (And we'll be crediting NB and all of
> the contributors in Vienna.)
>
> HERE'S WHAT WE NEED NOW
>
> A CIRCUIT / DEVICE THAT CAN GENERATE  STEAM, FOG or SMOKE either when
> TRIGGERED MANUALLY (or automatically when water is poured into the
> sculpture) and a STEADY or PULSING LIGHT, to simulate/suggest the
> action of a FURNACE / BOILER.
>
> Why?
>
> Last night a design for the robot's pelvis emerged that resembled an
> old-fashioned furnace grate. The current plan is to place a red or
> orange gel behind this grating, and light it from within so as to
> suggest embers or a faint fiery glow.
>
> Currently nothing special happens when the water-into-wine conversion
> occurs, being that it's a simple displacement trick, achieved with
> plumbing.
>
> We realized that it would be AWESOME if, when "working" to convert the
> water into wine, our furnace light glowed brighter, or pulsed a bit,
> and some steam emerged from an output pipe or from the robot's joints.
>
> BUT HERE'S THE CATCH: I fly to Vienna tomorrow evening. So any such
> circuit would need to be completed tonight. Or at the latest, tomorrow
> morning.
>
> Obviously this is not a mission-critical feature. But it is MISSION
> AWESOME.
>
> My first idea was to just obtain a small fog machine (I know at least
> two people who own them) wedge it inside our huge wooden crucifix, and
> then just wire a longer cord to its momentary switch (some models have
> such things to generate small bursts of fog).  But even this simple
> idea will take some non-zero amount of time to execute, and I am
> already WAY behind schedule. That is why
>
> WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO BRING THE CIRCUIT HACKING AWESOME!
>
> Email me if you want to kick some robot-art ASS in Vienna in the name
> of Noisebridge.
>
>
> - Slim
>
>
>
>
> ps. We're also still looking for any assistance in finishing the robot
> sculpture itself. This evening (Monday) we will be finishing off final
> construction and detailing, and moving on to painting. Email me, or
> just come by. (Follow me on twitter http://www.twitter.com/sfslim for
> updates on when we'll be there.)
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Shannon Lee
(503) 539-3700

"Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science."
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