Flaschen Taschen

What's the project?

We are going to build a Mate Light-inspired display at Noisebridge. Our goal is to have this completed for MakerFaire for use there. Then the display will be permanently installed within Noisebridge.

Idea is based on the c-base matelight display shown at the 32C3 and the 2015 Chaos Communication Camp. Our code that drives many LED strips from a Raspberry Pi is on Flaschen-Taschen github.

Flaschen Taschen is planned to be 9' 9" wide 7' 7" tall (about 3m x 2.3m) and host 1575 lights. See the drawings at the bottom of this page for the current design information.

We'd like your help with this. Very soon we will be scheduling build nights, build/drink ups, and drink ups. So please keep in touch.

In this blog post you see some work-in-progress video.

Drink Ups

This project requires a lot of bottles, so we'll want to setup a bunch of "Shut Up, Drink Up, Hack Up" events at Noisebridge.

Requirement for Bottles

12 oz is the right size

• Approximately 12 oz (which is the average beer/soda bottle size)
• Clear glass only
• Rinsed out with water

Bottles are known to work

Check out this amazing matrix of beverages and sellers!

• Most glass soda bottles with flat sides, such as Jarritos.
• Corona
• Some nicer ciders like Crispin
• Club Mate

• 

  Mexican Sodas work well (but not the big bottle)

• 

  12 oz Corona

• 

  2 oz Crispin

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  11.2 oz Mate bottle on the left

Where to buy in bulk

List out where we could buy some of these in bulk for the drink ups

Costco should have Corona for <= $1 a bottle.

Server

There is a server running on flaschen-taschen.local that supports three protocols:

• FlaschenTaschen framebuffer protocol: receives UDP packet with a PPM image on port 1337
• Runs http://openpixelcontrol.org/ server on standard port 7890
• Provides pixel pusher compatible control. Can be easily be controlled using processing (use the in-app browser to get the third-party lib for PixelPusher and play with the examples).

The native protocol is particularly simple: for instance, try the following all in the comfort of you shell (in bash, to be precise, that conveniently provides the /dev/udp pseudo-path):

 bash$ jpegtopnm myimage.jpg | pnmscale -xysize 20 20 > /dev/udp/flaschen-taschen.local/1337

There are utilities in the repository to send arbitrary images (including animated gifs) or even videos. It is also extremely simple to write your own client in any language that supports networking (See protocols section in documentation).

See all the details here https://github.com/hzeller/flaschen-taschen

Current Mechanical Design Documentation

This .PDF file is the current drawing set. Please take a look.

https://noisebridge.net/images/9/96/Noisebridge_FlaschenTaschen_2016-0131_36x24.pdf

Production Schedule

Due Date Event / Required Goals

2016-02-18 Bill of Materials Draft

2016-02-20 Build back panels for FlaschenTaschen

2016-02-21 Finalize Bill of Materials and Send to Scotty for review

2016-02-21 Finish FlaschenTaschen base and locate at NB

2016-02-23 Scotty returns to China

2016-02-24 Scotty (pending his agreement) starts to procure parts

2016-03-01 Possible ship from China date? (assuming DHL one week?)

3/2/2016 to 03/5/2016 Flaschen Taschen Parts arrive from China (assuming a week of shipping)

2016-03-05 Drink Up #1 - Build Day: Its a Crate Day build, refine, and improve crates Need LEDS for a 4x4 only

2016-03-06 "Progress Meeting" 12 Show Ready Crates complete

2016-03-10 4x4 Array Prepped for GDC

2016-03-12 Prep FlaschenTaschen for GDC Party

2016-03-13 Progress Meeting 18 Show Ready crates complete

3/14/2016 to 03/19/2016 TBD GDC Party (Drink Up #2) - Collect Hella Bottles

2016-03-20 "Progress Meeting" 24 Show Ready crates complete

2016-03-27 "Progress Meeting" 30 Show Ready crates complete

2016-03-31 NB Badge Due Date - ask Jay for details

2016-04-02 Drink UP - Build Day #3

2016-04-03 "Progress Meeting" 36 Show Ready crates complete

2016-04-10 "Progress Meeting" 42 Show Ready crates complete

2016-04-16 Drink Up #4 - Build Night

2016-04-17 "Progress Meeting" 48 Show Ready crates complete

2016-04-24 "Progress Meeting" 54 Show Ready crates complete

2016-04-30 Drink Up #5 - Build Night

2016-05-01 "Progress Meeting" 60 Show Ready crates complete

2016-05-08 FlaschenTaschen - Substantial Completion - All Show Ready crates completed, mounted, and stacked. Minor tweaks to construction allowed. Software/Hardware development continues if needed. Create list of final Tasks

2016-05-08 "Progress Meeting" 66 Show Ready crates complete

2016-05-15 FlaschenTaschen Final Completion

2016-05-18 Pack FlaschenTaschen for Maker Faire

2016-05-19 MakerFaire Setup Day - Transport to San Mateo

2016-05-19 Pre Maker Faire 5MoF?

2016-05-20 MAKER FAIRE!!!

2016-05-22 Maker Faire Takedown and Transport home to NB