Eightlines Creations

Experiments in Physical Computing

About Eightlines

Back in my university days a roommate of mine introduced me to the minimalist compositions of Steve Reich. There was one piece that started off simply as a series of notes, but over time it ascended into looping sounds and finally into one big crescendo of noise. That piece was called Eight lines. It was that sensibility that I’ve always strived for in my work.

I consider the elements in a well designed piece to be minimal in their function, and as they come together they form a wonderfully complex result, often with some unintended consequences along the way.

That said, I’m a designer. A web developer by trade, but more than that, someone that is interested in technology in general. I’m fascinated in typography, illustration, woodworking, electronics, mechanics, origami, mathematics, and more. I don’t claim to be an informative source of information on any of these subjects, but that’s what this site is about — mixing the basic elements together to construct some wild composition.


Brent Marshall

Eightlines

Toronto,Ontario
Canada
September 11th 2009
Tags: Found

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TGIMBOEJ

The Great Internet Migratory Box of Electronics Junk (TGIMBOEJ) is a box. It's a box that arrives on your doorstep after you drop your name on a wiki page and wait a good deal of time. It's a box that has electronics junk inside and it works off the premise ...
August 9th 2009
Tags: Ideas

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Power Monitor Packet

As Hugo helpfully commented in a previous post, here is the link to the Power Monitor Patent. The specific page I'm linking to is the Packet model. Lots of reading to do here, but its pretty interesting. One of the things I find most interesting about this patent is the citations ...
July 26th 2009
Tags: Ideas

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Building a Scooter Bike for Kids

Ages ago I bookmarked a design posted on Make for a Scooter Bike, as I intended on building one when my daughter got old enough. On a recent trip to the surplus store I picked up a wheelset for $3 and figured what better time to start than now. I ...
June 10th 2009
Tags: Ideas

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Arduino Packet Analyzer

Following the previous success where we managed to see the transmissions from the Black & Decker Power Monitor, Andrew Kilpatrick and I went about trying to capture the packets. Without an access to an oscilloscope with packet capture capabilities we built our own with an Arduino. Essentially, the code waits for ...
June 8th 2009
Tags: Ideas, Power Monitor

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Black & Decker Power Monitor Hack

Black & Decker makes an interesting product called the Power Monitor. The monitor straps on to your hydro meter and reports the revolutions of a spinning disc or blinks of an IR LED depending which model of meter you have. It then broadcasts that reading to a handheld unit inside ...

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