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A Los Angeles hackerspace

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Found @ CRASH Space No. 4: Pager Motors as Insects

July 31, 2013August 7, 2013 carlyn 0 Comments components, F@CS

Pager motors are small motors with a lopsided weight on the end that were developed to shake pagers (link provided

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Found @ CRASH Space No. 3: Too Many Phones!!!

July 23, 2013July 30, 2013 carlyn 0 Comments ewaste, F@CS

  We get a lot of cell phones donated to us. We don’t use them. They get taken to Good

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Found @ CRASH Space No. 2: Industrial Staple Turned Meditation Chime

July 16, 2013July 16, 2013 carlyn 0 Comments F@CS, lasercutter

This heavy duty metal something was found in our scraped-of-the-floor bucket. Steve G says it’s a staple. It also sort

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Super Sweet LED Matrix Library from Adafruit!

July 15, 2013July 16, 2013 alex 0 Comments

Check out this super sweet LED sign I made with Adafruit’s new NeoMatrix library: Adafruit hasn’t released any official tutorials

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Found @ CRASH Space No. 1: Apple – Arduino Power Supply

July 9, 2013August 7, 2013 carlyn 1 Comment F@CS, soldering

I’m not sure how many of you remember the Take Apart Tuesday series, but with my crash-space-meta-duties lightened I want

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Double Rainbow All The Way — An HTML5/canvas tutorial by Jim Bumgardner

October 21, 2011October 21, 2011 alex 0 Comments

In this tutorial, we’re going to make an animated double rainbow in HTML5 / Canvas. I’m doing this to teach

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Boxes! (How to design and build a box in a half hour)

August 14, 2011 theron 0 Comments

The rather makeshift laser cutter payment box that had been taped to the wall served us well, but it gave

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The Cinefamily Valentine’s Day LED Heart

February 16, 2011August 25, 2022 carlyn 0 Comments

This past weekend we participated in the Cinefamily Pajama Party screening of Electric Dreams. There was dancing, smashed-monitor-into-valentine’s-day-card making, photo

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RoboHeart

January 3, 2011 theron 1 Comment

For Christmas, I hacked my wife’s Jim Bauer robot sculpture. It had a red plastic heart that flickered when switched

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MakerBot DishWasher Repair

August 1, 2010 Daryll 0 Comments

This is a broken piece from my Frigidaire dishwasher. It connects the rotating upper spray arm to the dishwasher. You

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Take Apart Tuesday No. 8: Saw III Digital Voice Recorder & LOST Homage

May 18, 2010 carlyn 2 Comments

Yay! Another Take-Apart-Tuesday write up! I’ve been distracted by CRASH Space meta, but here’s one of the several dismantlings we’ve

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Home Depot Rocket Science

May 7, 2010 Sean Bonner 0 Comments

In this clip, Crash Space member and founder of Acceleren, Clive shows how to make a basic rocket out of

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