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spacebug ([personal profile] spacebug) wrote2006-02-17 12:57 pm
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LEDs!!

This looks so awesome! I'm so sad I probably won't be able to go, 'cause there's a workshop I will probably need to help out with and my show is that night! Aaargh!

FREE Artist Workshop: Light
February 23, 2006
5:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Experiment with tri-color LEDs, simple circuits, and light painting with handheld computers called Crickets.

First in a series of workshops focusing on light, led by Learning Technologies staff at the Science Museum of Minnesota. Explore relationships between technology and light using a variety of technologies like handheld computers called Crickets, LEDs, sensors, and the Logochip. Tools and materials will be provided.

For more information please visit http://ltc.smm.org/artandscience
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[identity profile] lokey.livejournal.com 2006-02-17 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never heard of Ambles.

[identity profile] spacebug.livejournal.com 2006-02-17 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, you're kidding- you were in metal sculpture! It's over by Cedar and Highway 55. Their hours are really wacky (I think they're open from 10 -2 on Saturdays, not sure during the week) It's totally worth checking out. They have gears and chains and steel beams and rusty O rings of all shapes and sizes. You pick out a paper bag or an armful of stuff, and the guy who I presume owns the place (Amble?)- an older bald guy with a big belly who's always there and always chomping the butt of a fat stogey- looks it over, shrugs, and says, "eh... $15" or whatever.

It's awesome. The whole place always makes starfive and I think of our grandpa's garages or workshops, it has that kind of aura and old rust and oil and metal smell, only it's way huge.

[identity profile] lostmachine.livejournal.com 2006-02-19 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Very Nice, I love places like that.

There was a place that I past on Highway 84 somewhere between SLC and Portland. They had huge letters there were maybe 10ft tall that spelled out, "WE HAVE EVERYTHING IF YOU CAN FIND IT", I remember the front of the place was over a mile long and I couldn't tell how far back it went. The had military hardware cars, disassembled structures, boats, planes, helicopters, tractors....

I was moving to Portland at the time and didn't stop, but I said that one day I would go back.


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