Horn Elementary LED Art VSL worked with the Busy Bees after school program to put on LED Art workshop classes for 3rd through 5th graders. Kids were introduced to basic electronic concepts by making LED art sculptures and light up LED chalk portraits.
East End Bicycle Opera Vampire Squid Labs is joining forces with Nameless Sound and Bicrophonic Research Institute to bring a unique bike riding experience to the Houston’s East End area. In a collaboration with East End residents, writers, musicians, children, programmers, builders and technicians to create Bicycle Opera East End. Sonic Bicycles are bicycles equipped …
VSL Welcomes New Art Director Critics agree, nothing makes a child want to start a career in science and engineering more than building their first audio synthesizer circuit! VSL had a synthesizer building workshop at Y.M.C.P.A. where the students were taught how to read simple electronic schematics and then led through building their own electronic …
VSL Welcomes New Art Director We welcome and introduce the artist, Eva Martinez, to our board as Artistic Director. Eva is an emerging artist who is currently working with Houston’s DiverseWorks and will soon be creating intensively at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, pursuing her MFA in studio/sculpture. She will use her …
UH News: An Article on VSL and Founder When Monse Lozano was a teenager growing up in the Houston Heights neighborhood, he dropped out of public high school, got his GED and found work at a local phone company. Now, a little more than a decade later, he’s a UH Cullen College of Engineering alumni …
Guitar Mute 6 or 7 years ago I had an idea to make a stuttering guitar pedal, basically a pedal that muted a guitar in pre-defined patterns that the user could set on the effect pedal. I made a prototype of this pedal using a bunch of logic chips, a mux, and an analog switch. …
The RC Shield VSL’s first product is in development, we’ve dubbed it the RC Shield. It is an Arduino shield which allows users to add remote control capabilities to their projects. The shield will come with a 5 button key fob that is linked to 5 GPIO pins on the Arduino. We’re also throwing the …
Dissing SVN. Welcome GIT So I had my first encounter with github a few weeks ago when I decided to use git as the version control system for my current project. I’m still learning the ropes and it still doesn’t feel… what’s the word, natural. You see, I come from a SVN world where version …