Author Archives: KRRRL

Xerocraft will be demonstrating 3D printing, augmented reality, and OpenSim at the opening at the 4th Annual Tucson Sculpture Festival, this Friday, February 1st.  Also featured, will be the Xerocraft bicycle generator lighting up a sculpture; and an Arduino driven more »

The Tucson Steampunk Society helped escort Zero  — the float Xerocraft made for the Parade of Lights — through downtown Tucson, on the night of December 15th, 2012.  Zero the ghost dog, comes from the Nightmare before Christmas. Pictures on more »

HeatSync Labs is the other sexy Arizona hackerspace, less than a 2 hours drive up the Interstate in Mesa, just below Phoenix.  Karl goes up there once a month to renew his membership: Hackaday interview with HeatSync:

Xerocraft really got it’s hack on during the first of December.  Loads of things happened! Leeloo soldered a mintronics Blinky kit (bought at Radio Shack):

Read more in the forum.

Karl visited Quelab hackerspace in Albuquerque, on election day, November 6th. Quelab has a high status fresnel lens, which is good for cooking hot dogs in the New Mexico sun, or vaporizing them:

Xerocraft paraded their giant, glowing, fire spewing skull at the All Souls Procession 2012. Playlist of videos: