The experience at San Diego Maker Faire 2016 was outstanding in every way. Held at Balboa Park on 1-2 October 2016, Organ Donor Opus 1 was deployed int the Natural History Museum, aka theNAT.Setup was Friday evening and went as flawlessly as it

Rotary Switch Failure

Dec 9th, 2015

We probably should have anticipated that putting a huge knob on the rotary switch would increase the mechanical stresses on the switch. The switch held up to a few hours of vigorous use by the many children at STEAM Maker Festival, and then sta

Setup and Configuration at STEAM Maker Festival

Dec 9th, 2015

Organ Donor Opus 1.2 was set up in record time for the STEAM Maker Festival at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. We had just three hours on Friday and an hour and a half on Saturday morning before the event, for a total of 4.5 hours. The previous record

Organ Donor ready to pack up for STEAM Maker Festival

Dec 4th, 2015

Organ Donor Opus 1 will be exhibited at STEAM Maker Festival at the Del Mar Fairgrounds on Saturday, December 5, 2015. On Thursday night, all the parts are staged to be packed into two vehicles for transport to the fairgrounds and assembly on F

New knob for the Organelle

Nov 28th, 2015

The knob we were able to find commercially was just too small and plain, so we designed and 3D-printed a much bolder knob.The knob design is published on Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1160160Before the upgrade:After the upgrade:

Software published

Oct 10th, 2015

We've caught up on publishing the Organ Donor software to our GitHub project. Not only have we updated the Organelle software to the latest version as of our most recent deployment at the San Diego Maker Faire, but we've also released the Ardui

Organ Donor Richard scores equipment for project!

Oct 9th, 2015

Thanks to Organ Donor Richard, we now have a spiffy kiosk for future work!Check out this pdf of the product:http://a1920.g.akamai.net/f/1920/1078/8h/www.imimages.com/visitor/3m/ChassisTouch.pdfRichard spotted it on Craigslist, and we earned one

Accolade!

Oct 6th, 2015

This group picked 350 things to honor at Burning Man, and Organ Donor was on the list!

Views from the Balcony

Oct 6th, 2015

Here are some photos of Organ Donor at the San Diego Maker Faire 2015 in the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park, taken from the balconies above the main show floor. This is an angle we rarely get to see! These were taken on the rainy Sunday

Great Press from 2015 San Diego Maker Faire

Oct 5th, 2015

We got some great press! Sol Diego's Organ Donor made the top 10 on Make Magazine for what to see at the 2015 San Diego Maker Faire.http://makezine.com/2015/10/02/bots-flames-battleships-converge-maker-faire-san-diego/

Untitled Episode aired at 2015-10-03 16:55:00

Oct 3rd, 2015

Organ Donor is currently showing at Maker Faire at Balboa Park 10am-6pm October 3-4. http://sdmakerfaire.orgCome see us and dozens of other amazing and inspirational projects!

Organ Donor Successfully Completes Deployment at Burning Man

Sep 17th, 2015

Organ Donor successfully completed a deployment at Burning Man 2015 as part of Sol Diego's Wonderlust Arcade installation. The five-day deployment was located with 28 other regional projects under tents at the base of The Man. The “Midway” was

Kickstarter that helps Organ Donor

Aug 15th, 2015

Do you like Organ Donor?Did you know that Organ Donor will be at Burning Man this year?Did you know that you can help?This project is hosting our machine learning pipe organ. If you donate to it, you are helping Organ Donor. Please consider don

Organ Donor Project Overview

Jun 21st, 2015

High Tech High Meetup Playlist

Jun 18th, 2015

Organ Donor is going to be presented at the Maker Faire meetup at High Tech High on 20 June. Here's the playlist for our 5 minute window :+)

Digging Into Questions About Entropy

Jun 16th, 2015

Here's a graph that represents two things. First, a lot of work completed. Second, a lot of work that needs to be done!These three curves are the bits of entropy per sliding window location in a work by Buxtehude (Prelude and Fugue in G Minor).

Organ Donor at San Diego County Fair - Day 2

Jun 8th, 2015

We spent part of the day demonstrating and maintaining Organ Donor Opus 1 at the San Diego County Fair today.We arrived to find a blown fuse! We replaced it and got Opus 1 back up and running at full capacity. The blown fuse took out one of t

Untitled Episode aired at 2015-06-04 16:36:00

Jun 4th, 2015

Check out our pipe construction poster that we made for our exhibit at the 2015 San Diego County Fair!http://www.sol-diego.org/Documents/OrganDonorPipeConstructionPoster.pdf

Organ Donor Goes to the Fair and Finds it's Fantastic

May 31st, 2015

The San Diego County Fair runs from 5 June – 5 July 2015, and is expected to draw nearly a million and a half visitors. Like Burning Man, the fair represents drastically different things to different people. Unlike Burning Man, it’s very commer

Organ Donor at the San Diego County Fair 5 June - 5 July 2015

May 28th, 2015

What is a chord?

May 23rd, 2015

We've been working hard on the math that is underneath the surface of Organ Donor behavior. We're now beginning to grapple with pitches, or notes, instead of just pitch classes. A pitch class in western classical music is the name of one of the

And Another Software Repository on GitHub

May 19th, 2015

Greetings all! Here is the GitHub software repository for the user interface code for Organ Donor:https://github.com/OrganDonor/OrganelleThis is the code that runs on the "Organelle", which will be the console from which functions and basic ope

Software Repository for Organ Donor

May 16th, 2015

Software repository launched on github!https://github.com/OrganDonor

Cipher Solver - Opus 1 Repairs

May 4th, 2015

Cipher work on Opus 1 began today! Here's the tracking document: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D6tU0KzxBT_n2KRq9RMQf1lhDpYGrcdHnSOyFiDY33A/edit?usp=sharingWith this many valves needing replacement, the question was to make a new windc

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