[757labs] Does anybody have any ideas for doing something cool with this? (arduino based monitoring device thingy)

[Trevor Lewis]

 I picked up some Shapelock/Instamorph/Polymorph/polycaprolactone/PLC a
while back. It didn't work for what I wanted (I needed Sugru, but didn't
know about it at the time). I wonder if PLC and PVC will bond with
superglue. Or if I can get the PVC to bend with a heatgun without totally
deforming... Hmmmm, must find some to do some experimentation.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Jerad Winchel <jerry at tesstech.net> wrote:

> Sintra is the stuff at DEBs.  It's flat PVC and the local cost was really
> comparable to online small quantity purchase.  Standard superglue welds the
> stuff and it can be formed to odd shapes by boiling in water.  At 8 to 10
> inches span its about as strong as wood for the 1/8 inch stock.  I haven't
> intentionally lit it on fire but I would guess it burns fast.  I've built a
> couple of sumobot sized robots out of it and it preforms admirably.  It's
> about $3 per 8x12 sheet for 3mm thick.  With a bit of engineering designed
> braces its very strong stuff for small projects.  Cuts with a coping blade
> or utility knife and is easy to sand.  I think it's basically the same
> stuff that the old school car and truck models were made from just a bit
> thicker.
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:20 PM, John LeVous wrote:
>
> I don't know much about Simona, but I've been using an extruded PVC sheet
> material - Sintra - for building my robots. I'll bring a sample this
> evening.
>
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> John LeVous
>
> On Dec 16, 2011, at 13:32, Trevor Lewis <trevorl.salad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>  I second the desire for that Simona material. It would be a great way to
> make quickie project boxes.
>
>  I'm going to be using a Twine as a monitoring system in my office. It can
> get really freakin hot in there, and I would like to track it. It's also
> going to be used to monitor when my cat uses the litter box. Only reason
> I'm going Twine for this project is that I have a tendency to have problems
> with feature creep. Twine isn't exactly limited, but it already has a solid
> platform for doing a few things really easily.
>
>
> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/supermechanical/twine-listen-to-your-world-talk-to-the-internet
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Jerry Winchel <jerry at tesstech.net>wrote:
>
>> I don't know about the fire resistant part but sign shops use a 1/4"
>> plastic that can take screws and glues well.  I'd call Terry Harmon at
>> Harmon signs.  I've also bought small sheets of PVC from DEBs RC World
>> before.  A gazillion years ago we used to be able get samples and scraps
>> from AIN plastics.
>>
>>
>> On Dec 16, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Michael Ross wrote:
>>
>> > I'd like to find a local supply for something similar to the Simona
>> material he used to construct the case.  Any thoughts?
>> >
>> > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Eric G <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
>> > http://marco.guardigli.it/2010/05/arduino-in-datacenter-rack.html
>> >
>> > "TOMBOX* : An Arduino based solution for environmental monitoring of
>> > datacenter racks"
>> >
>> > The article talks about using Zabbix to monitor the thing, which is
>> > something I have personal experience doing... is there any project
>> > someone's working on that would benefit from this kind of monitoring?
>> > (environment monitoring - temperature, humidity, barometric pressure?)
>> >
>> > I dunno, I'm really just throwing this over the fence and seeing if
>> > anybody growls
>> >
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