Ongoing Projects

(be they personal or collaborative, add them here)

Building a better Leodis
Nav Bot I - could fall into the "small robot" category, or the "even smaller robot" category - depends what others build

Project Dreams

(A few things other LHS'ers would like to work on add your dreams or perhaps team up with others to realize one of these)

Big ass robot
Small robot protect us from the big robot
A Yet smaller robot to protect us from the small robot.
Arduino (lighting, ethernet shield) http://www.oomlout.com
Laser and/or plasma cutter
3D printer - RepRap
3D laser scanner [1]
Sewing - wearable tech
RFID (Nabzfog, opening doors over SSH, 'Making Things Talk)
BEAM robotics - preferably solar powered
Big hardware, with engines ... cars, bikes, preferably steam powered, Stirling engines
Multitouch surfaces
Security systems for the space
Brewing (alkyhol), hopefully a range of full-mash Hackspace beers - WE NEED TO BREW TCP/IPA
psp midi sequencer
how many ways can you build a theremin?
Baker Tweet concept applied to something else (http://www.bakertweet.com/)
MicroPrinter (http://tomtaylor.co.uk/projects/microprinter/)
Physical device using Bluetooth to connect to custom iPhone app (possible from v3 of the iPhone OS)
x0xb0x: http://www.ladyada.net/make/x0xb0x/
Software project with a Monome (http://monome.org/series/)
Outdoor table and bench
Barbecue

OpenWRGT self contained wifibox
Wiimote, charged by kinetics (seriously, has no-one done this?)
LED Game of Life Lamp/Lampshade
Electric trike
Toffee hybrid rocket. Mmmm toffee. [2]
LED compass belt (similar projects exist)
Arduino powered, Nerf armed, twitter duelling apparatus
Face recognition app, add clothes or masks ala a particular anime programme, or crowd sourced so you know who people are if they know your friends.
Tree identification & AI - taxonomic key etc
Betting on twitter users. You guessed that "Stephen Fry will make 25 tweets tomorrow". you win 20 credits!
Food recipes. Timer for apps, websites, desktop, mobile.
Augmented Reality Ghosts in Leeds.
Homebrew renewable energy generation (car alternator/battery wind turbine, anyone?)
Replacing traditional incandescent/fluorescent lights with LEDs that are sufficiently bright
Rube Goldberg machine
http://xkcd.com/363/
OSM coverage of Holbeck needs work (so we have a lovely hackspace map)
ChessBot: a robot that can play chess by means of camera + memory + arm.
miyagiBot: a robot to test how fast a reaction you can get from a homebrew bot, high fps camera(or two) + chopsticks(simple arm to start with so it can practice catching balls).
TheWatcher: a mechanical head with two cameras for eyes that follow faces(facial recognition to centerize) and moves it head if the cameras are about to reach their maximum angle.
whirltle: a test to see if kettles boil faster with a fan circulating the water.