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Welcome to AIP Engineering, home of Any Interesting Project.  AIP Engineering is a small prototyping and development company that specializes in rapid prototyping.  We're tinkerers and inventors that enjoy designing and building innovative systems, preferring to work with a wide range of technologies rather than specializing in just a few.

Scribe - A High Speed, High Quality Book Imaging Station

The Scribe book imaging station was designed, prototyped, and manufactured for the Internet Archive by AIP Engineering, and is currently in use at  the University of Toronto, the University of California, and other locatations to be announced at a later date.  Some sample books imaged by this system are online at the Open Libary, a website run by the Open Content Alliance, though thousands more are available on the Internet Archive Text Archive.  We are honored to be working with the Internet Archive to make all of the world's books available to everyone, everywhere, for free.


Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive, uses a Scribe book imaging station.

The Java open-source software that runs Scribe was developed in-house by the Internet Archive, and is available at Sourceforge.  Note this is just one part of the software system, and there are a number of other software components necessary to make a fully-functional system.  The most notable of these is a rack of servers to store all of the images.  The Internet Archive uses the Petabox servers they use for archive.org, which is manufactured by Capricorn Technologies.

The hardware design is currently proprietary.  A few pictures from the development process are available here.

Press about Scribe:

2007-04-16: Toronto Star Archivists embrace digital page
2005-11-09: Wall Street Journal,  Building an Online Library, One Volume at a Time
2005-10-25: News.com,  An open-source rival to Google's book project

Vapore

Laboratory automation software (LabView) and circuit board design/programming for Vapore, a company founded to commercialize on an innovative vaporization technique that uses capillary forces within a ceramic substrate to generate enough pressure to "pump" fluids using no moving parts, just heat provided by a small ceramic heater disc.  Much more information is available on their web site.






Samadhi Floatation Tanks

Replaced 80's-era electronics with a modern control system in floatation (isolation) tanks designed and manufactured by Samadhi Tank Company.


System includes solution heat regulation to 0.05 degrees F, remote diagnostic and control software, specific gravity measurement, timed filtration cycles, underwater speakers, and many other features.


Past Projects

Synapse Development Corporation - Motor, camera, and user interface software for the CBMX Autoimager





Contact:
Tom McCarty
email "aip" at aipengineering

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