I designed and 3d printed a mount for my Galaxy S3. Works great! Helps me ride around town a lot easier, play ingress, and be a Stravasshole.
I designed this in SolidWorks by subtracting a virtual Galaxy S3 from my design. It would be fairly easy to change it to any other phone.
Instructions on how to download and make your own is on my Thingiverse page.
I finished my first prototype of a shield for the Arduino and I think it looks sweet.
So here is the story of why I’m going to Japan. I entered a Google Developer Day contest back in July. They had 8 different locations around the world, and hundreds of entries. Somehow, I scored perfect on their round 1 questionnaire, then a week later, they accepted my entry for an idea I proposed using the Android and their new Arduino ADK. The idea is a wait time system using clipboards and RFIDs, I’m calling it www.escapethewait.com… more on that after I present it in Tokyo. Google sent me an Arduino ADK and are giving me a booth at the conference.
Here is my name as a finalist- Google ADK Finalist
I have a 5 minute presentation after the ADK talk, as well as a booth to show off the idea.
GDD Agenda Tokyo
To say the least, I am thrilled for the opportunity and a little nervous.
Wish me luck! I’ll be back November 8th.
–Kevin
I’m getting ready to leave for Japan tomorrow for the Google Developer Day I am presenting at. Should be some great fun!
I’ll keep this site updated with pictures and how things went.
I made a photobooth for my brother’s wedding this next weekend.
Parts
The user walks up to the Easy button, presses it and the camera takes 4 pictures. Wirelessly, the EyeFi pro card transfers images over to the laptop and there is script running in the background to take the images in that directory and print them out with a wedding photo of Andrew and Jenn.
The whole thing takes about 1 minute and 30 seconds from press of the easy button to print out. The guests get to keep a cool souvenir, then Andrew and Jenn get to have the pictures afterward stored on the computer.
If you want to get more technical, the script running on the computer is a simple python script looking for 4 images. Hopefully, I’ll be able to just walk around the place, take 4 pictures, and have them automatically printed. We will see.
Edit:
This is basically what is inside the box. Just replace the mic with the easy button. There are a couple of transistors and resistors connecting the wires to the 2.5mm Canon Rebel jack.
