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Owen Trueblood

Hardware and software hacker with a bent towards the esoteric and artistic.

Brooklyn, New York
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This user joined on 02/21/2014.

My Projects

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The physical keyboard for virtual reality.
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Keychange

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Reducing waste by not just storing objects, but remembering and generating information about them.
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Desktop Warehouse

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A creative coding framework for KUKA industrial robots. And other robot studio tools.
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The Waldo

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Infrastructure as a Service, for when you need infrastructure made of the ittiest bittiest computers.
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A Tiny Cloud

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Affordable, modular scanning probe microscope.
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Automatic Jack

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96x96 pixels, 8 buttons, a speaker, and 1K operations.
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My Pages

  • DIY Bio Resources

    11/10/2017 at 16:52 • 0 comments

    Links to inspiration, companies, projects, and resources that have to do with DIY biology.

    (Sorry for the dump-style. The ambition is to come back and nicely organize all this).

    https://bitesizebio.com/22824/how-to-manipulate-plasmid-copy-number/ - what to do if you want a lot of a plasmid or a little, or to change how many copies you get on the fly

    http://blog.addgene.org/ - had a good post on replication origins for plasmids

    http://irational.org/biotech/ - DIY bio from the turn of the millennium

    http://irational.org/biotech/issue01/links.html - List of component suppliers may still be useful.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20030809185649/http://www.lcc.gatech.edu:80/~ethacker/bth/

    https://bitesizebio.com/ - Kind of awesome, has short articles with lots of practical information on many aspects of biology and how to study it written for a professional audience in an informal tone.

    http://hackaday.com/2017/06/17/graphene-from-graphite-by-electrochemical-exfoliation/

    https://amino.bio/

    http://www.hackteria.org/

    https://diybio.org/

    http://ask.diybio.org/ - Submit questions to a panel of bio-safety experts.

    http://biologicaldesign.info/

    http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-Scaffolds-for-Cell-Culture/

    https://dropletkitchen.github.io/

    http://www.biofabricate.co/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21766/

    http://agapakis.com/

    https://www.genspace.org/

    https://www.boslab.org

    https://hackaday.com/2014/03/18/mrff-3d-bioprinting/

    https://www.amazon.com/Biochemistry-Jeremy-M-Berg/dp/1464126100/

    https://www.amazon.com/Molecular-Biology-Cell-Bruce-Alberts/dp/0815341059/

    https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Systems-Biology-Mathematical-Computational/dp/1584886420/

    http://git.fabcloud.io/as220labs/HTGAA-2015/blob/ab1737b076a3a0d2be8448275828d79e163f6c98/nadya_bedford/index.org

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/cphc.200600260/full

    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/332/6034/1196/tab-pdf

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC534809/

    https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Life-Big-Brain-Project/dp/1463522541

    http://www.gaudi.ch/GaudiLabs/?page_id=328

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5321798/

    https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.3978?WT.feed_name=subjects_biotechnology

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

    BioHacking Village

    http://indiebio.co

    http://biocurious.org/

    http://www.counterculturelabs.org/

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pjOdhvIL1o&index=83&list=WL

    http://koniku.com/

    https://catalogdna.com/

    https://scaledbiolabs.com/

    https://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page

    https://realvegancheese.org/

    http://openinsulin.org/

    https://diybiosingapore.wordpress.com/

    http://www.oreilly.com/biocoder/

  • Misc Cool Robot Stuff

    11/01/2017 at 20:27 • 0 comments

    (ART and LOVE)

    Dr. Woohoo, S. Bersot, and J. Moretti

    Continuous effect from discrete action:

    Mobile fabrication

    https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/chain-api/overview/

    Ubiquitous sensing

    https://atap.google.com/soli/

  • Swarm Robotics Platform Notes

    10/19/2017 at 18:24 • 0 comments

    What does it take to get a bunch of robots moving around on a surface under the control of a computer?

    Existing Platforms

    • Kilobots (story) - Move on little stilt legs by vibration. Communicate with each other using reflected light. Various sources claim $14 per robot but commercially it costs $1127.28 for a pack of 10 robots ($112.73 per robot).
    • AERobot - Can be purchased from Seeed Studio for $20 per robot. Uses vibration for motion, plugs directly into USB port.
    • Jasmine - ~$120 per robot
    • mROBerTO from University of Toronto
    • Droplet from University of Colorado Boulder. Nice open design.
    • R-One from Rice University
    • Zooids from Stanford University - design is open source
    • Actuated Workbench - Uses magnets in a surface to actuate a swarm of magnetic objects ("...the actuated workbench works even when set on fire")
    • Madgets - Also uses magnets under a surface to actuate objects above
    • Tangible Bots - Robots used as interface elements on tabletop display (paper)
    • Thumbles - Swarm of robots with omni-wheels used for tabletop display interfaces
    • BitDrones - Drone cubes for 3D user interfaces. 3 types: 1) Pixel Drones (w/ OLED display) 2) Shape Drones (cube) 3) Display Drones (big display)
    • "Image and Animation Display with Multiple Mobile Robots"

    Ladybug Swarm Platform

    Most existing platforms are expensive because the most interesting swarm robotics research problems have to do with distributed sensing, decision making, coordination, etc. My goal is a little different, I just want to control a crowd of robots driving around on a floor. So centralization is okay and can be used to cut the complexity in each robot, making them cheaper.

    Here for $13 you can get a remote control toy that goes straight forward and backwards while turning. Controller, music, and shipping included.

    Plan: Hack the controller so it can be triggered from code on a PC (probably as easy as pulling the button pins low from an Arduino). Now you can make all the robots in your swarm do the same thing at the same time. Triggering the forward button makes them all go straight forward, and triggering the backward button makes them all go backwards while turning. That's a start but for the swarm to be useful there needs to be a way to control each robot individually.

    So take a microcontroller, like an ATtiny13, and connect it to an IR receiver. Wire it into the toy so that the microcontroller can programmatically disable the toy's movement. Attach an IR transmitter to your computer. Write some code so you can temporarily enable a particular robot in your swarm specifically by transmitting its unique ID. Now you can move all of your robots individually, one at a time.

    Add a bright LED to each robot, connected to the ATtiny13. Change the code so that when the robot is enabled the LED shines. Attach a camera to your central control computer and point it at your swarm. Now when you send a command to a robot in the swarm you can find out where that robot is in space. If you make a movement and then compare where the robot ended up against where it started then you can also figure out its orientation.

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Things I've Built

Digitized Mechanical Typewriter

Read Gameboy Camera from AVR

Broadcasts pictures over serial.

Weird Clay Music Thing

It had an Arduino inside and 3 speakers. Played algorithmically generated music out of the tentacles.

Demomite

Attiny13-based demo platform.

Desktop CNC Machine

Never worked.

USB TV Remote Receiver

Rigged up in software to control WinAmp.

Altoids Tin POV Display

A Small Keyboard

Atmega328P brain. Sends key presses over 9600 baud serial.

Hacky Watch

Made in 4 hours out of parts on hand.

http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=34294.0

Many, Many Calculator Programs

http://owen-t.me/software/2014/06/02/calculator_childhood.html

LED Panda

Picture is of the display that the panda was on. The video below is of the actual panda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kejw1KzkGdc

A Blog Engine

Based on Jekyll, but with incremental updates over FTP.

Tiny Node.js hardware widget.

http://owen-t.me/old/2012/07/08/introducing_nibble_working_title.html

Microfluidic Display

http://owen-t.me/hardware/2014/04/04/microfluidic-screen.html

Modular Drawbot

PC controls multiple battery-powered stepper motor modules over bluetooth to draw on a whiteboard. Made with 2 friends for hackMIT.

http://2doodle.us/

Calculator with GPIO

Dead-bug soldered AVR and simple support circuit in a TI-83+ calculator. Over a DB9 connector added to the back of the calculator there is serial RX and TX, analog output (PWM through filter), and 4 digital IO or analog inputs. RGB LED too.

Drawing on TI-84+ Calculator from Arduino

Wrote code that implemented the TI link protocol for Arduino, and then sent keypresses to a calculator from a Ruby script over an Arduino to draw arbitrary pictures with the calculator's drawing tools.

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with only 8 3D-printed parts, this servo is very easy to assemble and very robust.
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Using cheap IR LEDs and phototransistors to understand tomography. Using machine learning to make inferences based on sensor data. Etc :)
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This robot moves vicariously for a laboratory mouse while its brain is imaged by a microscope!
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What happens when FDM, 2 lasers, Juki vacuum pickup, multiple cameras and fluid pumps are loaded onto a single machine head.
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3D Fabricator

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No, not space exploration. Its a method of filling an area with a pattern. A remix of Charlie Williams' "Laser etched book edges".
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esot.eric wrote 10/21/2017 at 20:06 • point

hey Owen, thanks for the 'like' and follow a while back!

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Ulysse wrote 04/15/2017 at 21:47 • point

Hi Owen, thank you for Pablo. Famous maker, respect.

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