Organic Labs

Documenting success, failure and learnings from the playful labs of Organic, Inc.

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Delivery Wars With Drones An open source video game for Android (and a drone, and a beacon)!

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Leap Motion Remote Controlled Robot Arm:

Control a robot arm in realtime with natural hand gestures with a Leap Motion controller anywhere in the world over the internet, and see what you are doing with a streaming video feed of the robot arm in action.

Robot Arm

USB interface

Rasberry Pi

Leap Motion Sensor

WebCam

NodeJS

Express.io (websockets)

Resources:

https://github.com/bigbang/owi-robot-arm

https://nodejs.org/http://express-io.org/

https://www.leapmotion.com/

http://www.owirobots.com/

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#weareorganic got BEST MOTION GRAPHICS at #creativejam san francisco 2015

TEAM BUNNYBLOOMERS (made this in 3 hours) https://twitter.com/laureskp https://twitter.com/starpause

CAST http://codame.com headlands team

MUSIC https://soundcloud.com/neonindian/21-psychic-chasms-anoraak-remix

CRITICAL REVIEWS “Drones are not very organic” -random creative man sitting next to me at #creativejam https://twitter.com/laurenbwolf/status/590734019291144192

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replicator 2 keeping busy in detroit! print2 print1

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3.7v LiPo Blade Nano QX battery powering a Gimbal Proximity Beacon! On the road to game of drones.

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Prototype print of Expand Light by Amy Wang. "Using Rhino digital technology fabrication and representation to make a lamp product."

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Wireless RC Camera and Transmitter repair after a rough weekend on the Blade Nano QX FPV. Back in business!

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Playing Mega Creature Smash at the Organic sponsored VR Lounge at Art by Code by CODAME.

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Playing caaaaardboard by dejobaangames at the Organic sponsored VR Lounge at Art by Code by CODAME.

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Inspiration: A Worm's Mind in a Lego Body

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BOF Torch prototype 1

First milestone in creating a wireless array of synchronized LED modules

Basic set up of an Arduino Uno with an XBee shield connected to a 1m addressable RGB LED strip.  This test shows me broadcasting raw packet data from the coordinator (my laptop) through the Zigbee XCTU configuration software.  Very happy that there is near-zero latency.

The next step is learning AT serial programming to broadcast from my own software.  More updates to come!

List of parts:

1X - WS2812 LED RGB strip (1m)

2X - XBee 1mW Trace Antenna - Series 1 

1X - XBee Shield

1X - XBee Explorer USB

1X - Arduino Uno (didn't work with SparkFun's Redboard for some reason)

XCTU Zigbee software

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Javascript generated maze turned into 3D print (part 2)

This is a maze generated in javascript using a depth-first search algorithm.

A 3D model was built in three.js starting with a solid block, creating the cells using boolean subtraction via constructive solid geometry (building the maze by merging multiple geometries (cell walls) resulted in unprintable meshes from three.js). CSG geometry needed to be made three.js-friendly by using ThreeCSG, then converted to STL for printable export. Tested on Makerbot Replicator 2.

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Caption contest from the hackalb!

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Javascript generated maze turned into 3D print

This is a maze generated in javascript using a depth-first search algorithm. The generated image was vectorized, then extruded in Blender and printed with a MakerBot. Next step: output .obj file directly from the webpage.

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Simple DIY A/B testing w Parse Cloud Code

http://abtest.parseapp.com/

Cloud code function defined to increment a value in the data (test_id)

var newId = (result.get("test_id") + 1) % 3; // modulo the number of tests

user is cookied with their test_id

all testable elements are hidden on load, and if the cookie exists, the correct elements (with class ‘test_x’ ) are shown, if no cookie call parse to get a new id. If parse call fails, give a default.

Todo: Google Analytics properties update based on test_id for reporting.

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LEDMATRIX

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i know normals are #basic but i love 'em anyway