

Restaurants had this problem with the hazardous swinging kitchen doors, adding a portal window (and using it) did cure that problem.

Because it is the Rule of Cool (sci-fi trade-craft?) 2. So in summary: I like this IRIS window concept. Also some of our mental-giant-hot-heads make things scary here with road-rage. However, due-diligence financial consequences kinda’ makes it difficult to be a ‘dick’ on the road. So I can understand your driving analogy you can’t legislate kindness and courtesy. There are yield warning signs but impetuous bad-drivers still cause problems. We have been adopting the rotary idea over time and I hate it. However, like in some foreign countries, like say in Rome Italy, you ostensibly take your life in your hands in their rotaries. If caught not complying you’d face a substantial fine from our L.E.O.’s.
#Porthole front door manuals
Our DMV (a/k/a MVD) training manuals for our American drivers invariably state that it is LAW to yield to the prevailing traffic.

Justin – Well here in USA our highways either have a YIELD sign or a STOP sign at the merge-points (i.e. Posted in Arduino Hacks, Hackerspaces Tagged arduino, door, hackerspace, i3Detroit, iris, Porthole, window Post navigation If you want to add this sleek idea to your home but lack a laser cutter (understandable), then you can still hack one out of some common household materials. Start and stop positioning required some limit switches that seem to do the trick.įinally they laser cut acrylic plastic with the i3Detroit logo to complete the porthole modification. You can watch a video of the mechanical iris in all its glory here - but unfortunately it’s on Google+ (do people still use that?) so we can’t embed it in the post. The iris is actuated by a 12V car window motor - which works just fine on the 5V power that it’s supplied with - and an Arduino filling in as a controller. PIR sensors detect movement on both sides of the door and an FET resistor connected to an orange LED add some old-school science fiction flair. Grabbing the design online (which they are now hosting on their site here), the parts were laser cut out of wood, gold leaf was added for effect, and it was relatively easy to assemble. In order to resolve the problem of congestion at the entrance to their hackerspace, the minds at i3Detroit installed a motion-activated mechanical iris in their door’s porthole.
