Done the Instructables way. What project is perfect to do with kids and uses only one LED? Create your own big Orange functional analog bulletin board suitable for tacking up stuff after you are done. Make the original message board where you actually post messages. Great to hang up in the dorm, cramped work cubicle or bomb shelter. No sewing involved in this one, just hot glue, scissors, and maybe some soldering.
HAL is the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Great book and movie. Didn't understand it then, still don't, one of the great mysteries in life to unravel.
This bulletin board simulates the glowing eye bezel of HAL and the surrounding displays. Great debate rages on the meaning and symbolism of the details in the movie. Here we present our version of HAL, the Instructables IBL 9000 glowing eye, centerpiece of our display board.
Many say if you take the letters that come alphabetically after H, A, L, you get IBM. If you take the letters the come alphabetically before I, B, L, you get - - -, coincidence, you decide...
HAL is the computer from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Great book and movie. Didn't understand it then, still don't, one of the great mysteries in life to unravel.
This bulletin board simulates the glowing eye bezel of HAL and the surrounding displays. Great debate rages on the meaning and symbolism of the details in the movie. Here we present our version of HAL, the Instructables IBL 9000 glowing eye, centerpiece of our display board.
Many say if you take the letters that come alphabetically after H, A, L, you get IBM. If you take the letters the come alphabetically before I, B, L, you get - - -, coincidence, you decide...
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For this project we will need:
A working red LED.
I found these LED book lights at the dollar store. They contain a white light LED so I had to modify them.
Some sheets of box cardboard the size that you want to make your bulleting board. Mine were about 2 feet square. You can buy real cork tile to use as the base of the bulletin board for more durability and hold. Or you can use a sheet of rigid foam house insulation.
A small plastic bowl to use as the lens cover. I had these disposable dessert bowls/cups that were perfect to use. You may use a small glass dessert bowl too to give a better appearance of the optical fisheye lens.
Fabric of any kind to cover your bulletin board. I had some leftover orange stretch knit fabric which fit the theme of this project.
Patches of different colored fabric, I had different colored felt pieces, to make the display panels.
Computer/Printer to create logos and wording for the displays.
If you need to modify the light, you need some soldering/electronics skillz.
This was constructed using only a hot glue gun to attach everything.
CAUTION: Hot glue and the hot glue gun are HOT! Can cause burns if you are not careful. Have tweezers/pliers to handle pieces that have hot glue just applied to them. Hot glue can pass through the fabric as you are pressing down and burn you.
A working red LED.
I found these LED book lights at the dollar store. They contain a white light LED so I had to modify them.
Some sheets of box cardboard the size that you want to make your bulleting board. Mine were about 2 feet square. You can buy real cork tile to use as the base of the bulletin board for more durability and hold. Or you can use a sheet of rigid foam house insulation.
A small plastic bowl to use as the lens cover. I had these disposable dessert bowls/cups that were perfect to use. You may use a small glass dessert bowl too to give a better appearance of the optical fisheye lens.
Fabric of any kind to cover your bulletin board. I had some leftover orange stretch knit fabric which fit the theme of this project.
Patches of different colored fabric, I had different colored felt pieces, to make the display panels.
Computer/Printer to create logos and wording for the displays.
If you need to modify the light, you need some soldering/electronics skillz.
This was constructed using only a hot glue gun to attach everything.
CAUTION: Hot glue and the hot glue gun are HOT! Can cause burns if you are not careful. Have tweezers/pliers to handle pieces that have hot glue just applied to them. Hot glue can pass through the fabric as you are pressing down and burn you.
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2001:Space Odyssey
2010:Odyssey two
2061:Odyssey three
3001:Final Odyssey
I've read them all, my favourite books, and I agree about your recommendation of Rama, that's another excellent Quadrilogy,
OK Big Spoiler Alert.
Stage One Prehistoric~
Outer aliens sends monolith designed to teach about tools to earth
People learn tools.
People Use tools to kill+harm other people.
Aliens are like, Woah didn't expect that! These people are crazy!
People dominate earth.
Stage 2 The moon
Aliens don't want this race they've created to rule the universe.
They put a monolith on moon that purposely radiates signal so that humans would come to it. Once they do the aliens will know because the monolith is also a transmitter (loud high pitch noise)
Stage 3 The Odyssey
People head for another monolith near japetus. This one warps.
Why? the aliens want to know if they've gone to jupiter.
ON the ship Hal (a tool) kills people.
Thus the guy gets rid of his tool. and is left alone.
Stage 4 ending
Guy goes through the monolith to find a place we can't understand (flatland)
Aliens (or you can consider them God.. iffy....) change him into perfect.
The baby uses tool for the last time a tool (the monolith) to travel back to earth.
The baby clears the atmosphere or destructive nuclear satellites.
And I'm not sure what the baby is going to do to change everyone else. But he will.
:p Anyway its just a book. Or IS IT? haha all for fun.
You've made a HAL 9000, now you need to make a SAL 9000
anyway, i have it tack'd up in my bathroom;-) no kiddin_--)...
...btw,
as far as i recall, A. Clarke actually finished the novel after they finished the film/screenplay...do yall remember that or have u heard/read anything re: the timing of the finished book vs. finished film?
......anyway, g00d job man =][=
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