Dylan Projects
Since you now have a massive garage!
Here is a List of project Ideas for when we get bored.
Help us prioritize (+fund) your favorites
Here is a List of project Ideas for when we get bored.
Help us prioritize (+fund) your favorites
Project Ideas:
- Vacuum Still (70% Complete)
- Portable Hot Tub Project (80% - Stalled)
- Solar Grid-tied House System.
- Install Lights on Adam's Wall. Cheap, Waterproof, and Reliable. As Per Plan
- Combine and Get rid of extra Computer Hardware
- Combine all Data (Movies, TV, etc) into one Huge Collection
- Can I use your Camp stove to boil booze? Will it be insanely expensive?
- Can we use Kiln/Ceramic Cloth??
- Make 56 Jenga Blocks for Like This!
- Tow Hitch Chair + Hammock
- Fridge Door Open Alarm. With Reed (Magnatic) Switch(50 cents. sell for $15)
- Baby Flask
- 20 Various Pi Stuff
Money Making Ideas:
I want to invest in Dylan, to mass-produce / patent one of his great inventions.
- Home Vacuum Still
- Portable Hot Tub
- Portable Hot Tub Heater
- Sound Isolating Helmet.
- Adam's Tenant Alarm
- 3D printing Company
- 3D Scanning Rotating Platform
- 3D moving Camera.
- Wolverine Claws
- Terminator Statue
- Predator Statue
- Ghostbuster Containment Unit
- Laser Engraving Company on Etsy etc.
Project Ideas:
Simple Hologram
Motorized Liquor Shelf
TV Lift
LED Liquor Shelf
Shoe Shelf
Flashlight
Frying Pan Ring Light
This but Wolverine Claws
Thor's Hammer
Infinity Dodecahedron #1
Infinity Dodecahedron #2
Infinity Cube
Sybian
Hot Water+Hot Tub:
Facial Recognition Project
- $306CAD in Parts
- Ultrasound motion Sensors
- Infared Cameras
- Scan Faces
- Turn on and off 120V devices (lights, alarms, motors)
- Unlock Door
- Sound Simple Alarm
- Instructions
- Old Camera
- NVIDIA Jetson Nano
- smartphone cameras
- Lenses
- $89 Lense Pack
- Arducam 5MP Camera Mod1
- Arducam 5MP Camera Mod2
- Camera Catalog
- nvidia
- nvidia-gives-jetson
- Jetson.GPIO
- Linux Driver
- Google Coral
- Controlling RaspberryPi
- Grove accessories
- Detecting things other than faces
- Pretrained models
- Pretrained Models usage
- Samba Setup
- Samba from Windows
- High hopes
- Might work
- OV5647 driver
- Opencv Stream
- Run python at Startup
- New $50 Pi Cameras
- Dylan Front Door
To Buy:
Other Infared Rings
Other Cameras
Optional Parts
Videos:
Old cellphone to Infrared camera
10 lines of Motion Detection
VIM3 Benchmarks
VIM3 Object Detection
Liquid Batteries Funny!
18650 Batteries Compared
Ambri Batteries (Cambridge) Donald Sadoway @ MIT:
If you want something to be dirt cheap, make it out of Dirt!Ambri Batteries @3:01
Adam Battery Project Ideas:
- Electric Car Range Extender
- Bosco Vest
- Beach/Camping Lights
- Solar Panel Storage
- 18650 Charger
- Use battery CLIPs and Not springs with item is in motion / bumped around!
Borrowing Blue Van:
- Van Runs Great.
- Insured in Beths Name
- Heater Fan Broken
- Cigarette Plug Broken
- Outside Sliding Door Handle locks in open position, must reach inside
- Passenger Side Window won't come up easily if rolled down
- Stereo doesn't work
- When turning off ignition, if you don't turn the key all the way back, you will get a beep tone.
- Small Melted section in driver seat.
- Drivers Armrest broken
Adam Battery Project Parts:
LED Tshirt:
LED Tshirt
- $10 USB Battery Pack
- $5 Raspberry Pi Pico
- 2 x $6 Matrix 8x8 (for Shoulders)
- 2 x $18 Matrix 8x32 (for Chest)
- Wire them all together (64+64+256+256)=640LEDs
- Mount to Flexible Matting that velcros to inside of Black Shirt
- 80 LEDs per 18650/hour at half power
$10 SUPER-bright Mouth-light:
Insipration
- $7 Lithium OXIDE battery (not explosive/poisonous)
- $1 1-Watt LED
- $2 Plastic Insert
$500 Collapsible BIKE trailer:
Insipration
- Insipration
- $200 8x4 foot Aluminum Panels (24 pounds,"Much stronger/rigid than plywood.")
- Non-Aluminum panel Option
- $100 Wheels, plexiglass, etc.
Spring-Loaded Wolverine Claws
Smart Mirror
DIY Smart Mirror
- How does the hot-water de-misting work @11:31?
- I want an electric defogger.
- Charging the battery would suck. I want mine to plug in.
- I want a bright ring-light around mine
- I want a visible LED Indicator (red / green)
- Not sure where to get the actual one-way mirror piece.
Dylan Party Net
- 4km Line-of-site, text message, and GPS Location Broadcaster
- Download the Meshtastic App.
- On your phone, Withink the App, Pair Bluetooth to the TBeam Device.
- Once Connected, Enter Name for yourself.
- Leave it connected to the Default Network, or create a Named Network just for your friends.
- 24 Hr Battery. Charge it with any USB Plug. Car, Solar Panel, etc.
- Test it in the CITY, to make sure everyone has worked it out.
- $10. Plus a $40 Deposit.
- Main Site
Batteries:
- $3.00 18650s
- JehuGarcia's Ebay Store
- Cheap Recycled Batteries
- $35 11.1v 4500mah
- FastTech is super cheap, but won't ship to Canada
- Battery Buying Guide is super cheap, but won't ship to Canada
- Dylan says these are likely shit $0.66: Link
- Dylan says also likely shit $3.50: Link
- Dylan has bought these $5.00: Link
- The supplier Ryan ships to in Blaine WA, and then picks up at YYJ. $18(+$0.45/lb after 5lbs)
Best Deal on:
Dylan's Party Lights:
Parts:
Upside-down Propane flame tubes:
LED Screen:
- 512 x 16 pixels But I would prefer 128 x 64 or 120 x 48 pixels.
- Original Instructions
- $63 Power Supply
- $16 5m of WS2812B LEDs
Notes
- RoHS= Non-Lead Solder.
- FCC= Won't cause rRadio Interference
- CSA= Required to use in Canada
- CE= Required to use in Europe
- UL= ??
Links
- Local Cheap LED Stuff. 615 Discovery St.
Adam needs a LiPo charger, like Dylan's!
Portable Camping Hot Tub Instructions:
- A hexagon made of six plywood panels reinforced by 2x4s, Held together with 6 metal rods. Insulated with Foam Panels. (Setup ~45 mins)
- 30" Deep. Seats 6 comfortably. More if you want to squeeze.
- Cover the sides in pool noodles, then Place a black pond liner in it, and then use Pump A(High Flow) to pump water in from a lake / river.
- Once 2/3 full, use Pump B(Low Flow) to circulate water through a copper coil, and back to the fire (within 20 feet).
- Pumps are powered by Large batteries (similar in size/weight to a car battery, but very different).
- The bigger the fire, the faster it heats, but hope for ~12 - 16 hours.
- 2x2" posts are used to keep the heat in.
- The floor is flat, so you sit cross legged.
- We can get it pretty hot. Around 110 degrees. Dylan has a Thermometer.
- As it takes a ton of time to heat up with the campfire, Dylan says it is only worth it for long weekends.
- Also, he sometimes ends up having to do all the work himself. So the more committed to help the better.
- Drain it with a siphon.
- 3000 liters at 32 inches Deep
- 1500 liters at 24 inches Deep
Rules:
- - Keep the Water CLEAN (rinse your feet!)
- - No smoking (Pond liner expensive!)
- - Don't splash. (Batteries expensive!)
- - When you are getting out, ask others if they want another drink ;)
Dylans DNA Rant:
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We need to evolve to survive.
We can't make perfect copies of ourselves, or some other species will out evolve us.
That's what cancer is.
Our own cells evolving to compete with the rest of our cells.
We can't cure cancer without curing evolution.
We can't cure death without slowing evolution.
It is not an evolutionary advantage to live a long life, even if you are continuously pumping out kids.
You are just pumping out obsolete old DNA instead of giving the next generation space to evolve.
Trillions of evolutionary trial and error experiments are going on in parallel in all of the species on earth.
Those innovations are trapped within the species.
If that species goes extinct, the innovation goes extinct with it.
Viruses can spread these innovations from one species to the next. Viruses greatly speed up evolution.
