CHEERS!

You missed out.
You stayed home.
You could have learned how to make some awesome drinks.
But no.

After tearing down the scanners and being slightly disappointed that I wouldn't be able to mash this thing up nearly as fast as I thought (see The Tear Down), I decided to go to town on the scanner heads. I suspected some nice toys to play with down inside. This time, I would not be broken hearted!!!

So I did some work on ScanRap recently.
Dave from THS was nice enough to donate a third scanner to the cause.
At first glance, it appeared to be more flat than the first two, and I was considering using it as my base axis.

So I get into the process of tearing these three scanners down and taking some measurements.

So I decided to build a 3d printer. I have been pouring over the RepRap documentation, and settled on the idea of building a RepStrap "seedling" based on recycled flat bed scanner parts.

I happened to be looking around a Hard OFF and found two identical scanners, perfect for X and Y axis.

I peeked down inside, and saw that they were belt driven by a geared down stepper motor. This should give a lot of torque, and higher resolution printing, at the expense of speed.

Also, they have a guide shaft on one side, and sit on a metal guide bar on the far end.

I found these great videos while digging around Hackaday recently:

Imogen Heap performs "First train home" on Letterman.

Shes using a Monome in her lap throughout the performance.
Some of the buttons are sounds, some are patch triggers for the laptop, and some are audio effects and filters (also performed by the laptop) for her mic.

She has always had a beautiful voice. Its always nice to reconnect to an artist I used to like 'back in the day.'

My higher education in one word:

Trash

I could sum it up that way. If you grant me two words, I would say "EXPENSIVE trash."

I saw Akiba's blog, and it spurred me on to think along the same lines, so here is my take:

Putting together my part of the power point slides didn't get me thinking so much about how trash my education was, but did get me thinking about how I think, teach, and deal with a class-room.