http://brentbushnell.com Main Site Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:48:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en They Syyn Labs team had a good time helping DieHard batteries, Young & Rubicam, James Frost & Zoo Films with their latest commercials. In one video we obliterated a battery with an elephant gun and it still started a car! In the second, we turned 24 white ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/07/10/diehard-commercials/ The Spring 2010 Brewery Artwalk will be taking place in downtown Los Angeles the weekend of 4/17/10-4/18/10. Artists will have their lofts open from 11am-6pm both days. If you haven't been, the event is a blast and a fun way to see much of the eclectic offerings ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/04/10/artwalk-spring-10/ Naming companies is so difficult. The number of constraints a name must satisfy only seems to grow each year. Between the dearth of available domain names, acceptability in other languages and international markets you might go into, it's surprising we don't have more names like Zzyzx. Here are ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/03/29/company-naming-resources/ The minds (and bodies) of Syyn Labs spent the past three months building a huge, two-story Rube Goldberg machine during which a piano gets dropped and a TV is smashed with a sledge hammer. Why? It's the centerpiece for the latest music video from the band OK Go ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/03/01/ok-go-rube-goldberg-music-video/ Step 1: Pick something you like. Step 2: Think of as many ways as possible to make it better, more efficient, more durable, cheaper, longer lasting et cetera. Step 3: Which solution from step 2 are your skills or connections the best fit for? Step 4: Figure out the least expensive ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/02/25/steps-to-profit-by/ Crowd-sourced funding platforms: Kickstarter.com: A site where users can propose projects and the public can pledge funds to them IndieGoGo.com: A competitor to Kickstarter Loans: Prosper.com: Lend or borrow money at varying rates. On Deck Capital: Small business loans Angel Networks: Tech Coast Angels: A southern California network. Free to pitch. Keiretsu Forum: Networks of angels ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/02/01/entrepreneur-resources/ Tyler Bushnell and I spent Saturday at a party at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Westwood. We were slated to bring our Laser Maze but the fire marshall thought the particulates in the fog machine would anger the smoke detectors. We fell back to bringing the party table ... http://brentbushnell.com/2010/01/27/ucla-hammer-museum/ Eric Gradman, Tyler Bushnell, and I have been collaborating on a platform for social gaming that uses a handheld wireless RFID reader and a bunch of RFID tags scattered around a venue. We tested an early prototype at the H+ conference the beginning of December and will bring the ... http://brentbushnell.com/2009/12/14/puck-hunt/ Wow! What a weekend. The Virsix showroom was alive and packed during the biannual Brewery ArtWalk. We had five of our games available and people ages 5 to 70 competing away! Players tested their cat burgling skills in the Laser Maze, avoided traffic in our ... http://brentbushnell.com/2009/10/26/artwalk-fall-09/ I've been on the hunt for a truss solution that could be easily reconfigured for different applications. It turns out the options are not immediately apparent, but with a little searching there are some gems. Here are the results of my research thus far: UltraBeam Unistrut 80/20 Kee Klamps SpeedRail Global Truss Truss ... http://brentbushnell.com/2009/10/16/modular-truss-solutions/