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ped in with large signs hanging from the ceiling denoting this timeline by the time you reach the end of the timeline somewhere in the 1980s you might even recognize some stuff you grew up with or heavens even still own were you cool enough to own a sony watchman the museum is run by a volunteer organization and on any given day that they re open numerous volunteers are prowling around to give guided tours or just explain a piece of technology one of the really neat things about this museum is almost nothing is roped off or behind glass all the equipment is on display and generally there to see and touch and a lot of this equipment some of it over 100 years old is in working condition and the volunteers will happily do a live demo for you one volunteer approached us while we were looking at some old phonograph console cabinets which look like a turntable on top of a large wooden speaker cabinet the speaker however though hidden from view is actually a large horn like the ones you imagine when you think of old timey phonographs after describing a bit of this cabinet to us he started playing a shellac record from 1925 what really struck me about this demo is that there is no electricity involved you give the handle on the side a few cranks which is enough to spin the record through the duration of the song the enormous phonograph horn hidden behind the cloth fabric of the cabinet is enough to amplify whatever the needle picks up off the record with plenty of volume maybe the fact that i couldn t see the horn and it looks like it should be an electric speaker is what gave it that touch of witchcraft magic by the way shazam had no trouble recognizing that record but i forgot what it was already sorry another demo we were given was on a 1920s tube raido receiver which can receive am radio bands am radio has apparently gone unchanged as the volunteer was able to tune the radio to a local station which was broadcasting a story on the death of president george h w bush it was bizarrely fitting perhaps eerie even to be listening to this broadcast on the same radio that might have been informing someone about the death of president warren g harding that s pretty incredible please hang up and try your call again not everything needs to be done by the volunteers some of the exhibits can be played with directly as well one of the exhibits in the 1940s section is a huge multi rack of at t telephone switching equipment it s more of a solid wall of wires eletronics and egad knows what did you know that when the north american numbering plan was developed area codes were distributed such that the busiest metro areas like new york would have the lowest digits in their area code which would require the fewest number of clicks on the switching equipment and actually be faster to connect than numbers in area codes with higher digits new york has area code 202 among many more today which was the shortest fastest code that could be assigned under the plan this was life working with mechanical constraints back to the museum display though they have one of those central office mechanical switches on display next to a rotary phone dial that visitors can use each number on the rotary dial creates the same number of pulses except 0 which is located after 9 and has 10 pulses each pulse causes a mechanical movement in the switch which you can see and two digits must be entered into the switch to complete a connection i have no idea how any of that really works but it looks complicated as hell and someone had to engineer those systems and all that hardware like the phone rack a 1970s display includes a collection of vhs broadcasting equipment that has clearly come from a local broadcasting station that was decommissioning pretty much everything the interesting bit about this display is the equipment looked shiny and new like it had only recently been pulled out of service and indeed there were visible service tags for maintenance replacements for the years 2005 and 2007 i suspect that this equipment was in active use until 2010 when the venerable analog ntsc broadcasting in the united states was shut down there s all kinds of strange and interesting things threaded throughout the larger themes of the museum artifacts and notes are strung up just about everywhere like the walls of a 99 restaurant except it s all real did you know that in the 1930s a company started selling refrigerators with a built in radio the radio took up the entire top section of the refrigerator which you would otherwise have assumed was the freezer if that sounds crazy they sold 4 million of them it turns out that such a combination was a big hit for lonely housewives working in the kitchen all day bottoms up if you re in connecticut near bradley airport and have some extra time it s worth taking a visit general admission is 10 although if you go on a swap meet day they might not charge you we didn t have to pay today we took about 2 hours to wander around and look at things we didn t have a full tour but those are offered and would probably be very interesting with all the extra knowledge and backstory that the volunteers can provide categories blog 1 comment maglabs workshop review december 1 2018 by texelsaur whew i ve been so wrapped up with other projects i forgot to recap the cookie cutter workshop i ran at maglabs in september this was the first workshop i ve run and it was an absolute joy to come share this fun little craft project with others thank you to everyone who attended i was quite happy with how everything went and the creativity of some attendees who created their own designs and patterns then built them i also received some good feedback on improvements i could make if i run this workshop again in the future and speaking of future workshops here s a soft announcement that the cookie cutter workshop is coming to super magfest this year i m super excited to bring this to the big event the workshop will be running on friday january 4th at 7 00 pm in the maker space formerly the forge i haven t posted any of the instructional content i mentioned yet but i d like to do so before the workshop runs so that the resources will be available online for everyone in the meantime here s a link to the instructional sheets i handed out as part of the workshop which includes a collection of pre made patterns and some additional information like a pattern key and a bend radius guide pattern and bend radius guide pattern sheets boo and pacman ghost patterns metroid and weighted companion cube patterns yoshi and bulbasaur patterns king donut and creeper patterns categories blog craft 1 comment maglabs workshop september 6 2018 september 6 2018 by texelsaur if you re attending maglabs this year i m running a maker workshop on sunday sep 9th at 12 00 pm for building your own metal cookie cutters i ll be providing all of the tools and materials in addition to instruction all you have to do is show up i made my first set of video game themed cutters on a whim in 2011 for a secret santa project they re quite easy to make with minimal tools and materials so i m excited to share this in a workshop setting i ll post some instructional content and patterns after the event categories blog 3 comments magnet shoes july 21 2018 july 21 2018 by texelsaur i ve been continuing to make progress on a scyther cosplay and i ve been doing some work on the feet if you re a bit rusty on your pokemon designs scyther has some pretty large feet attached to his little stick legs since i m designing my costume to be faithful to the pokemon x y model that i m using as a reference that means making feet that are also much larger than a normal shoe or boot the idea is that the foot is built as a shell with some normal wearable footwear embedded inside ideally i d like to be able to wear some normal shoes which would provide very secure attachment and at least be moderately comfortable but if i glue shoes to the inside of the shell i can t really get access to lace and unlace them so what to do early on i got the idea to try attaching the shoes to the inside with magnets specifically those strong rare earth neodymium magnets that feel impossible to separate when two get stuck together the idea is pretty simple take a relatively flat shoe embed several magnets in sections that are normally in contact with the ground and embed another set of magnets in the same location in the base of the foam scyther foot then you can lace up your shoes stick your foot inside and the magnets should engage now the rest of the foot will move when you do i made a first attempt using some small 10mm magnets which you can see in this photo unfortunately the attractive force wasn t that strong any resistance on the foam bottom would cause the shoe to disengage as well as any flex in the foot from walking flex is something i did consider but thought would be minimal since wearing these feet will be like wearing flippers still there s enough to be a problem i did a second test with some larger 20mm magnets that should work out to 4x more attractive force overall it was an improvement but in a test walk the foam bottoms were still detaching all the time maybe i could keep adding magnets and find a break point where the attachment is reliable enough but i think i m ready to lay this idea to rest categories cosplay 1 comment mareep hat april 20 2018 april 20 2018 by texelsaur if you haven t been up on pokemon go for the last several months niantic introduced a monthly recurring community day where a single pokemon takes over the map for 3 hours so far we ve had a community day for pikachu dratini bulbasaur and most recently mareep starting with dratini i made a hat themed for each community day this brings us to today s hat mareep i ve only designed a handful of hats but this was by far the most complicated one to create both in terms of pattern and construction if you re up for a challenge though i m providing my patterns for free to anyone who wants them the patterns are split across two files a basic pattern that i use as a foundation for most of my hats and a separate pattern with all of the mareep specific parts check the following links basic pattern 23 inch 6 panels ear flaps pdf inkscape svg mareep pattern pdf inkscape svg in the svg files each page is stored in a separate layer note the small marks covering the edges of some patterns are registration marks after you trace and cut your fabric go back and copy the registration marks to your seam allowance to help align fabric joins materials fleece i use anti pill fleece for my hats which can be found at joanne s or elsewhere this stuff goes on sale for 40 70 off at joanne s pretty frequently so that s something to keep an eye out for the mareep hat uses 4 colors black daffodil ivory and blue i think i used mykonos blue but availability might be spotty you ll need 1 4 1 2 yard of the ivory and 1 4 yard or less for the other colors polyfill stripflock this is a brand name for fuzzy heat transfer vinyl sheets you ll need black and white to make mareep s eyes construction the mareep hat can be broken down into the basic parts headband crown ear cones and swirl headband the headband is constructed from one headband piece in the basic pattern and one each of the front back headband pieces in the mareep pattern the basic pattern should be sewn together at the ends to form a loop the front and back patterns should be sewn together at the curved ends where they fit together also forming a loop the front and back parts should be using different fabric colors place one loop inside the other bad side of fleece facing out on each side and sew them together along the bottom edge fold right side out swirl sew the smaller swirl part to the larger swirl part where they fit together as indicated by the registration marks on those pieces repeat for the flipped pieces for the back side with both sides created put them together bad side out and sew the edges together everywhere except for the wide top which is where the swirl will attach to the crown you ll need to do this in two steps because the fabric overlaps back onto itself turn inside out and set aside crown the crown is constructed from two of the basic pattern triangles and two each of the mareep pattern triangles sew together the 3 front pieces and 3 back pieces as separate halves remember that the circle notches should be on the ends of each half take the swirl you set aside and place it between the two halves of the crown when turned inside out the swirl should be pointing into the hat sew the halves together which also sews the swirl in place try to pin it securely 4 6 layers of fleece is a lot of bulk and the swirl will easily slip under the presser foot of your machine ear cones sew cone parts 1 2 and 3 together to create a single striped piece use the registration marks to help you line up the edges once combined sew the side edges together to complete the cone shape then turn inside out repeat for a second cone attaching the ear cones to the headband unfold the headband so that you have a wide ring of fabric with circular notches cut out on one side pin the cones to these cut out areas the registration marks are really important here to make sure the cones will attach evenly to all parts of the hat additionally take your cone bottom circle pieces and pin half of them to the inside of the cone you should have 3 layers of fabric forming a semi circle the outer headband the cone and the cone bottom carefully sew these layers together fold the headband right side out again cone attachment and poly fill access if done correctly the bottom half of each cone will be secured to the headband with the bottom half of the cone bottom also secured in place on the inside the inside layer of the headband overlaps that circle but is not directly attached to it attaching the headband to the crown you ll essentially repeat the previous step but attaching the cones to the crown part instead working on the inside of the hat start by pinning each cone in place and then pin the remaining crown areas to the headband once everything is secure do a test fit careful not to poke yourself if the hat sits too high or low you can unpin it and adjust the slack in your seam allowance to make up the difference at this point the hat is quite unwieldy to manage so expect to sew the cone parts and headband parts separately stuffing the cones if you assembled everything correctly then the interior side of the headband is not attached to anything over the cones pull this back with your hand and use scissors to cut a small opening in the cone bottom pieces use these holes to stuff the cones with poly fill add enough poly fill to get a good self supporting shape but don t overfill too much fill will create extra pressure on the side of your head when wearing the hat the holes you cut will be hidden by the headband and you can access them later to adjust the fill if...