NYC will only recycle plastic bottles now, no other containers of #1 (PET) and #2 (HDPE).
NYCWasteLe$$: Frequently Asked Questions - CAN I RECYCLE ANY OTHER PLASTICS BESIDES BOTTLES & JUGS?
Inhabitat » GREEN RANT: Why Won't NYC Recycle Plastic?
And what do we do about it?
HDPE
YF-DIY-75A MINI RECYCLING PLANT
What about PET?
recycle pet machines Manufacturers & Suppliers
And #5 containers, like yogurt tubs? Look for a Whole Foods dropoff location here:
No real answers here, but some ideas.
Homemade plastic recycling? [Archive] - CNCzone.com-The Ultimate Machinist Community
A commercial version.
Perpetua - Self-powered Wireless Sensors
I played with QR-codes in the workshop with Massimo a couple of weeks ago, but haven't cmbined them with AR or used them as fiducials. If all of this is mystifying, look at this for ideas of where it's leading.
Though mostly cosmetic, this app to customize DMG files could be useful - as in the DMG I put out this week.
DMG Canvas 1.0.8 Review | Utilities | Mac Gems | Macworld
For bike power, Micro Hydro, etc.
WindBlue Power - The best wind generator parts and PMA Permanent Magnet Alternators on the web
At two ends of the scale but the same idea - 3D printing of real, useful objects.
MakerBot Industries: CupCake CNC
Using Xbees to control relays « adafruit industries blog
I've created a kit of elements to allow easy install of an Opensim server on Intel Macs. I'll keep the links here, and I'll update with any notes or improvements.
OpensimOSX kit version 1 (175mb DMG)
OpensimOSXkit Tutorial Document only
I've disabled comments here, but leave comments on the Maxping site where this is posted, and I'll check there.
Maxping - How-to install Opensim on Mac OSX -
Time to dig in.
Official Google SketchUp Blog: Catch up on your SketchUp 7 reading
You can teach an old dog new tricks. It just takes a while.
Two ways to turn shell scripts (series of commands in Terminal) into clickable apps:
Use Platypus to give it a Mac application wrapper.
Sveinbjorn Thordarson's Website - Platypus
Or just make the script itself double-clickable.
[HOWTO] open (Terminal) shell scripts by double-click - macosx.com
Official Google SketchUp Blog: Google puts 3D on the web, and it's no joke
Via Dan Shiffman, processing classes for audio and graphics.
Downloads - toxiclibs - Google Code
100mb/s for $11 a month.
Slashdot | Why Is Connectivity So Cheap In Stockholm?
Work by ITP researchers and others in sustainable use of technology.
Sustainable Interaction | Main / Papers
Sustainable interaction design | Sustainable Minds
Design For the Other 90% | Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Have to check this out. High-level futuristic mindgames. With scientists.
Welcome | The Signtific Lab | Massively Multiplayer Thought Experiments
Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles : Gas 2.0
The Web of Data: Creating Machine-Accessible Information - ReadWriteWeb
Just finished a presentation in SL for Earth Week. Here are links from that.
SLIDES on GOOGLE DOCS:
Earth Week SL Presentation, April 18th, 2009 - Google Docs
Chat Transcript (most was done in voice, not in this transcript)
http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/docs/EarthWeek Transcript.rtf
Tish's blog post regarding Pachube, sensor networks: http://www.ugotrade.com/2009/01/28/pachube-patching-the-planet-interview-with-usman-haque/
Dave's blog covering Maya archaeology, jungle ecology, and technology http://www.gomaya.com/glyph
Maya Frontier, Usumacinta River videos
http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/001914.html
Collapse http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_(book)
Arduino - microcontrollers http://arduino.cc/
Pachube - tutorials http://community.pachube.com/tutorials
Pachube Apps - http://apps.pachube.com/
Arduino-SL-Pachube data site http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1284
SL to Pachube site http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1505
Dave's Danger Shield - Pachube tutorial http://www.zachhoeken.com/connecting-to-the-world
TweetaWatt site (LadyAda) http://www.ladyada.net/make/tweetawatt/
Dave's post on TweetaWatt to Opensim/SL - http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/002505.html
Peter Quirk's post on Importing Sketchup into RealXtend
http://peterquirk.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/tutorial-using-the-streamlined-tool-chain-for-importing-sketchup-models-into-realxtend-04/
Opensim http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page
RealXtend http://www.realxtend.org/
On the verge of comprehension.
Introduction to Open Source Scripting on Mac OS X
The AlloSphere at the California NanoSystems Institute, UC Santa Barbara
Good that he's meeting with Calderon, depressing the apparent political impossibility of fighting the gun lobby.
In Mexico, Obama Seeks Curbs on Arms Sales - NYTimes.com
The Takeaway: Hackers play around with the next generation of technology
Necessary to run recent Opensim builds on Mac. The things I get myself into.
MySQL :: MySQL 5.1 Reference Manual :: 2.5 Installing MySQL on Mac OS X
And how much will it cost me to have IBM and Implenia do this for me?
Eolus - The path to sustainable Real Estate: IBM and Implenia
Collecting some links:
Environment (IDE) \ Processing 1.0
Cheap servos, I learn, are designed only to swing a certain range of rotation, not to turn continuously like wheels. I'd heard of hacks to override this limit, but here's a good how-to from Tod Kurt, of Todbot.
todbot blog » Blog Archive » Tiny Servos as Continuous Rotation Gearmotors
This is a great simple LilyPad project. Looks like a winner for the first LilyPad project in the Girl-E class (Make Break and Burn).
Make: Online : CRAFT Video: LilyPad Arduino Bike Patch
Chis Hart posted instructions on this for Windows clients. Here is how to do it on the Mac:
Right-Click or control-click on the Hippo client app in the finder, choose "Show Package Contents" and look in Contents/Resources/app_settings/ and you will find settings.xml. Open that in a text editor (I use SubEthaEdit), search (command-f) for AutoMimeDiscovery and change the 0 to 1 as shown in Chris Hart's blog.
Just ran into this as many others have. Some new computers in the office. Migration of files from old Emac to nice new iMac went fine except for Mail, due to this bug.
Apple - Support - Discussions - [SOLUTION] Mail does not quit or show old messages
I finally assembled a Tweet-a-Watt hack of the Kill-a-Watt power meter, which adds an Xbee chip transmitter, sending to a receiver on a laptop. In LadyAda's original tutorial, the data is sent to Google App Engine to provide web access and graphing. But I wanted to send it to Pachube.
Love the lazy web. Brian Naughton had already adapted the Python script to report to Pachube, and shared it with me. Now he has posted it.
UPDATE: I added back the Twitter code that Brian removed. So now there is a PachTweet-a-Watt version, that does both. It can be found here.
Ties it all together with effective stimulus plan.
Wonk Room » The Smart Grid And Cybersecurity
But...but...what about that 1984 Mac commercial? That was 25 years ago?
Big Brother! ActyMac DutyWatch spies on your employees
Part of the Arduino workshop - Massimo Banzi has created an OSC network in Processing that has as an input a QR-code reader on the iSight camera. It sends an OSC message of the text in the printed QR-Code. That processing code to come in an update
OK, I am at my geek limit running a python script from Terminal for the TweetaWatt hack of the KillaWatt power meter. But if I decide to go all the way, I can turn that Terminal business into an OS X app and just double click it. I already struggled through the MacPorts install to get where I am.
Aral Balkan - How to make standalone OS X application bundles from PyQt apps using py2app
Keeping an eye on this - could be our first network storage.
DroboPro: Drobo bigger, better, rack-mounted and faster
Had to look for this how-to again. With 2 SXS cards in the Sony EX1, it is inevitable that you will get shots spanning the two cards. This shows how to deal with, and combine, those two incomplete files.
Transferring Video Files Spanning 2 cards in FCP! - The Digital Video Information Network
Somehow we were talked out of this but I am returning to it at least as an educational project for the new building.
New York Power Authority - New Technology Programs - Fuel Cells
Chris Shaw's spectacular canoe trip on the Dordogne - his story in the Times today.
In the Dordogne, Canoeing Into Prehistory - NYTimes.com
"The language added on March 30 to AT&T's wireless data service Terms and Conditions was done in error. It was brought to our attention and we have since removed it. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused."
TUAW -- The Unofficial Apple Weblog
TOS changes to restrict use of its network. This means iPhone apps for accessing sensor nets.
As if things aren't bad enough... AT&T terms change targets Sling
Make: Online : Arduino MEGA video featuring Tom Igoe