Oct 5Post Victoria Ampstead (sp?) Talk, Student Ideas!!Ilteris: materials instruction examples Carl: One Laptop Per Child: listing ideas from that at itp Jaki & Alice:
Pollie: coffee project (megan & andrew) after paper cups: composting grey water, re: Washington University in Seattle and their programs Ahn: bicycle generator from NextFest, wants to make one for floor, station of 3-4 communal generators—social Jeff: solar panels, smaller scale for pcomp projects, understanding difference Angela: instructional reference library, incorporate alt energy sources in pcomp projects, solar panels, built a physical library (smart/green room, as demo space), compost on the floor?, proposal for one near coles sports center re: gardener Megan: coffee moving forward, hopefully it is ongoing and the floor will take it on, after class is over, green room on the floor, demo space that is sustained by solar, post energy audit have a mechanical physical rep of energy use that doesn’t use electricity to power it. Demetrie: big data visualization from Living Planet Index put out by WWF, giant spreadsheet (every 4 yrs) large countries, resources used and have, ‘ecological footprint’ Sustainable distance/space, make it personal/relate to floor, tom: schools are calculating/visualizing their school’s eco footprint, via despina, terrapass, treehugger Kati/Kate/Rebecca/Rob: air filtering, ITP plants, express personality of the plants, take water from other plants around them, pushy plants want more attention, see relationships tha develop, using humorous approach to examine the effects that plants have and what their community role is, Eric Powlos at Intel did a similar project: email Tom on that---best networked objects project ever. Sensing and feedback, get plants onto floor, gorw things that are edible, keeping alive. Irrigation Josh Klein: I don’t know category, Iceland at crossroads, previously sustained by US military presence, examining economy: ecotourism vs industry, ex. Dam---damaging to environment, finding ways to introduce sustainable housing their (no timber, arctic: difficult for grey water, electricity: heat) Andrew Schneider: harnessing the power of love, Invenio: bike generator, interested in harnessing power from something physical that we already do, maybe it’s harnessing the power of dancing---ddr, stationary bike, rockin’ out. Preston: solar, hydrogen, biomass stuff, story in wired this month, toy hydrogen fuel cell car kit: conversion unit run on batteries or solar cell, air ladder in the car: fill balloon, hydrogen in fuel cell water as biproduct runs the car. Runs for 40 sec., gives off .6 volts, Contacted the company for a stack that provides consistent 5 volts to run pcomp projects (cell: 1.25inx1.25in). iyfcc: intl youth fuel cell competition, ises: intl solar energy society, AIA: architecture, Solar Energy Technologies Program: Solar Americcan Initiative, quietrevolution.co.uk (omnidirectional windmill)—7mph to keep going; edge of building windmill hang off the roof, ucoon: willow as biomass Gilad: readings from roof top solar panel, making a chart to see what voltage we’re getting, green space on the floor, layer on top of the existing infrastructure, make a choice of what power source you use. Make space understandable, obvious Josh Knowles: social enterpreneurship Stern program, open source community development practices to develop green, consumer products, use wikipedia model to produce better product design Rebecca Bray: energy audit is happening, is creating a list of things left to be examined so Tom can help get access. Josh Klein: *signal over IP to manage on/off *Worst offenders: mainly checking lights, haven’t gone into high energy places 18, G5s in A/V Lab: 139.5watts when sleeping (2.85 KW/hour): turn off or distributed computing (a la rendering for 3D) *Measure the conference room, so that we can estimate what we need ->*Tom would donate antique amp meters for the cause Anchor Projects
Measuring current: Measure in series (DC) with the thing that you are measuring Meters have 2 volts ohms milliamp: you can blow a fuse start in the big hole instead set multimeter to amperage: 10amp: plug in red leader to the power outlet of the device Inductive Amp Meter: when dealing with 120, put a collar around the feed for the line, measure inductive change for line, infer current going through the line. Maybe we can measure the current by checking the inductive amp lines for floor. Green Room, roll in the battery charger, put in the conference room, look at the draw on this room. |