Then hey presto, a waterproof cube that won't blow down and makes a lovely housing for the led light. The winning solution was to just add in 4 upright sticks of bamboo, with the pegged out base holding the bottom of the canes secure it just needed some guy ropes at the top to pull the top section square. This worked well, but was a pain to make and needed quite a lot of it to keep square. First I tested making a makeshift truss inside by taking chicken wire, cutting strips of 3 holes wide and folding them into a triangle. The main remaining issue to solve was keeping the rest of the cube rigid. When tested the woven plastic material was perfect at taking the colour of the nodes and fluorescing with a nice bright light, but also containing the light so it didn't shine too much into the surrounding tents etc. This kept them from blowing away and when pegged right tensioned the bottom into a nice square shape. This was great for me as I could just run it upside down and use those straps to peg them down. The winning suggestion was to use rubble sacks, these are cubed and come with straps to allow them to be moved around a building site with a forklift.
Lumo robot install#
The rest-bite I got form the heat was to install the central server in the data centre, a walk in freezer unit normally designed for food and drink, repurposed to house the servers for the event! It was so nice, I could have easily taken a nap for an hour or two.ĭone with hiding 40 cubes around the site I had enough energy to turn on a rainbow script I wrote to turn all the nodes the same colour and went to sleep to recharge for the next day! Sounds ok, but in reality putting these up in the blazing sun saps all your energy, even with a big hat for shade that doesn't help with the heat reflected from working inches away from white cubes all day. This time got cut in half, meaning I needed to put out the housings during the day. I had planned to walk the site the first night checking locations for signal and the amount of ambient light in the area, then work on making the housings during the day and setting them out during the next 2 nights. With a time crunch it meant that I would need to push up setting out the nodes. Perks of making the installation, I lined the red carpet entry to our entry gazebo with 6 of the nodes.īut setting up all 50 proved to be a challenge. Just outside the LOC was the Gold Members Lounge that our village made (the joke is there are no gold members at emf), a large geodesic dome with a lounge in the middle: It could just hold everything but the big boxes themself. On the left is also the peli' case loaned to my by Nexus Interactive Arts who sponsored the project, it was packed to the gills with all the lipos and electronics.
This was a pita to get up and down 3 flights of stairs, but came in useful for working on the nodes and knowing I had everything to hand.
Lumo robot portable#
Including, makita drill set, hot air gun, reflow station, network switches, toolbox, assorted tools, soldering station, fan (next time we are bringing aircon), portable work lights, a hat with led ring, ipad, macbook air and desk. I got to arrive slightly before the public as I was part of a village and had the nodes to setup, I'm so glad I did as setting up all the nodes was so much more work than I expected.įirst things first, setup out new tent and get my workshop setup inside for the LOC (Lumos Operations Centre) If you would like to make something, see the "LUMOS - Server" link on the left of the page to see details of the json rest api to make control calls and apply to join the team on hackadayio or contact me via email: or via IRC on freenode nick: solexious.
Lumo robot software#
There are currently plans for some control uses, but we are also issuing a public call for participation to the emf camp atendees.Ĭurrently the hardware is locked down for this year but there is an open call for people to design control software to change the colour of the lights at the event. The magic of the nodes will come from what the attendees make of them.
Lumo robot code#
They will be nestled around the camp in prominent and hidden locations, perfect for a timed treasure hunt based on blinking morse code nodes, or a visualisation of data from tweets about the event. Spread over 50 cubic meters of glowing led cubes, the nodes will be responding to the central control server via the camps wifi network. This project is a realisation of a stalled project back at the first emf to bring light and interactive fun to the whole of the event at night.