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People and companies that I am boycotting

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A list of blog posts made by Steven Smethurst a Vancouver based maker, hacker, and installation artist

Flocking AI

AI/ML created birds for the Flocking AI project

Ideas

What am I thinking now

Movies and TV shows

A brief personal review of some of the movies and TV shows that I have watched.

Now

What am I doing now

Projects

A list of project that Steven Smethurst has worked on

Posts

Tools and equipment 2024

3 minute read

This page is inspired by UsesThis.com - A collection of interviews asking people from all walks of life, what they use to get the job done.

Idea 100 plus

less than 1 minute read

All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut

Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?

2 minute read

A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.

Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd

less than 1 minute read

A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound

Idea 058 - In a million parts

8 minute read

Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings

Idea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania

2 minute read

A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics

Idea 039 - Growth a game

5 minute read

A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most

Idea 030 - Chatbot Journaling

2 minute read

A chatbot that gives you writing prompts for daily journaling. Ask follow up questions for clarity. Builds a web of knowledge about you and gives feedback

Idea 029 - SproutSwipe

3 minute read

Use cell phone sensors to create a filtered list of suitable plants for a space then show the plants using Augmented Reality. Dating app for plants

Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock

4 minute read

Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...

Idea 024 - Call to Adventure

1 minute read

A mystery letter is delivered filled with puzzles that need to be solved in order to give directions to a meeting place for the start of an adventure.

Idea 019 - Big Red Button

2 minute read

Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most

Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book

1 minute read

AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids

Idea 014 - AI Pictionary

1 minute read

Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture

Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project

2 minute read

People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and fam...

Idea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard

2 minute read

A macro pad keyboard with most commonly used Emoji as key caps for quick access when you want to respond to a message with an iconography

Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth

1 minute read

A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions

Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC

3 minute read

A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...

Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute

3 minute read

Electronic Flute PCB - A product for music lovers and DIY enthusiasts alike. This PCB is designed to be a customizable electronic flute that uses a tiny mems...

Samsung The Frame TV art

less than 1 minute read

I created a Gallery of AI/ML generated artwork for the The Samsung ‘The Frame’ TV. All the artwork in this gallery was generated by me using Mid Journey and ...

Tools and equipment 2022

3 minute read

Everyday I use a series of tools that make my life easier. These tool change and morph each year. This is my most up-to-date list of recommended tools and eq...

Year in review 2021

11 minute read

It’s been another unusual year with the continued global COVID pandemic, less eventful than 2020 but overall good. I found a new hobby that makes me happy, c...

Birding in Vancouver

less than 1 minute read

Since the start of 2021 I have gotten really into birding. I am very new to this hobbie less then a year.

February 2021 brain dump

2 minute read

Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes).

Do not buy from Dell

9 minute read

Maybe you should not buy equipment from dell. This is my story and the reason that I will not buy from dell in the future.

Online group games

1 minute read

With everyone saying home because of COVID-19, me and my friends have been playing a lot of boardgames online. Below is a list of games that people can play ...

Podcasts 2020

3 minute read

This is my updated podcast list for March 2020. My previous list from Feb 2019, Nov 2016.

February 2020 brain dump

1 minute read

Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...

January 2020 brain dump

2 minute read

Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...

Digital stained glass workshop

2 minute read

Update. See this post for photos from the event, source code files, Slides, and a post mortem (what worked, what didn’t) Digital stained glass workshop - Po...

Tools and equipment 2019

4 minute read

This is a snapshot of the tools that I was using in 2019. A more up-to-date version can be found on the tools and equipment page.

Jun 2019 brain dump

4 minute read

Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Feb 2019, May...

Podcasts 2019

2 minute read

This is my updated podcast list for Feb 2019. My previous list from Nov 2016.

Feb 2019 brain dump

3 minute read

Yet another brain dump post. Previous: Nov 2018, (May 2018, Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a know...

Trip to Shenzhen 2018

1 minute read

I got to spend two days in Shenzhen at the tail end of a vacation. I love hitting up the markets in Huaqiang Road. Makers paradise. Below is a list of the th...

Tools 2018

3 minute read

This is a snapshot of the tools that I was using in 2018. A more up-to-date version can be found on the tools and equipment page.

Nov 2018 brain dump

4 minute read

Yet another brain dump post (May 2018, Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for ...

May 2018 brain dump

2 minute read

Yet another brain dump post (Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer o...

Kangaroo words

3 minute read

Recently I saw two great art projects by @whisbe. Where a sign that has a phrase written on it. The phrase’s meaning changes when certain letters or words ar...

January 2018 brain dump

4 minute read

Yet another brain dump post (1, 2, 3 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes)

How I buy bitcoins and Ethereum

1 minute read

A few months ago I started to play around with Crypto-Currency such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Mostly to understand the blockchain technology and because of FO...

Vancouver Maker Faire 2017

2 minute read

This year for the vancouver maker faire I decided to show off some my LED and lighting projects that I had created over the past few years. I also created a ...

Notes from May 2017

2 minute read

Some of the things that I have found interesting in May 2017. This page is updated throughout the month of May. See April 2017 for the previous month.

Earthquake Kits for Vancouver

4 minute read

I live in Vancouver, BC, a city near the edge of two of these tectonic plates: the massive North American plate, and the smaller Juan de Fuca plate. There is...

Notes from April 2017

3 minute read

Some of the things that I have found interesting in April 2017. This page is updated throughout the month of April. See March 2017 for the previous month.

Renting to the vancouver hackspace

2 minute read

If you are thinking about renting a building or a space to the Vancouver Hackspace (VHS), think hard about that choice. It could be very costly to you and yo...

Notes from March 2017

4 minute read

Some of the things that I have found interesting in March 2017. This page is updated throughout the month of March. See February 2017 for the previous month.

Tools and equipment 2016

2 minute read

This is a snapshot of the tools that I was using in 2016. A more up-to-date version can be found on the tools and equipment page.

Podcasts

1 minute read

This is a list of podcasts that I am currently listening too.

Halloween LED Fox Mask

less than 1 minute read

For Halloween this year I combined a Fox Mask designed by Winter Croft (Instagram) and the LED mapping technique from wow_elec_tron ( Etsy ).

Mushroom growing kit and automation

2 minute read

In the middle of Oct, I attended a talk by Paul Stamets about Mushroom Mycelium & The Worldwide Food Web. Specifically about how Bees and Mycelium are li...

Wanhao Duplicator i3

2 minute read

I picked up a used Wanhao Duplicator i3 from a friend for a good price. I have used 3D printers in the past, but I have never owned one before. Having one at...

Alternatives to the Vancouver Hackspace.

20 minute read

Vancouver Hackspace (VHS) used to be a place where people could ask questions and get help with their projects while helping out others. Now new people askin...

Day 99 - VHS LED Wall

less than 1 minute read

A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:32am PST

Day 97 - Giant fox mask

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Oct 15, 2015 at 11:23pm PDT

Day 92 - Yellow jacket

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 25, 2015 at 1:15pm PDT

Day 91 - Cockroach

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 25, 2015 at 8:22am PDT

Day 90 - Blowfly

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 25, 2015 at 8:19am PDT

Day 89 - Jumping spider

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 24, 2015 at 1:38pm PDT

Day 88 - Preying mantis

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 24, 2015 at 1:19pm PDT

Day 86 - Fox head mask

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 7:49pm PDT

Day 85 - Mustaches

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 7:06pm PDT

Day 84 - MeeBox

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 5:16pm PDT

Day 83 - Mario coins

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 14, 2015 at 12:00pm PDT

Day 81 - Voronoi tower

less than 1 minute read

A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 10, 2015 at 10:14pm PDT

Day 79 - 3D printed horn

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 7, 2015 at 6:21pm PDT

Day 55 - fairy door arch

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 8:38pm PDT

Day 54 - Lasers letters

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 8:15pm PDT

Day 51 - Circles panel

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 11:49pm PDT

Day 49 - Branches panel

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A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 11:43pm PDT

Day 48 - Maze panel

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 10:15pm PDT

Day 45 - LED strip test

less than 1 minute read

A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 3:20pm PDT

Day 38 - Cthulhu panel

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 28, 2015 at 11:31pm PDT

Day 34 - Spades Panel

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 27, 2015 at 10:51pm PDT

Day 26 - L3D cube build

less than 1 minute read

A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 15, 2015 at 6:26pm PDT

Day 23 - Spiral panel

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 13, 2015 at 11:40pm PDT

Day 16 - Star panel two

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 10, 2015 at 12:13pm PDT

Day 14 - Test polyhedron

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 11:43pm PDT

Day 12 - Test panels

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:56pm PDT

Day 11 - String Star

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:54pm PDT

Day 10 - Hexagon Star

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:50pm PDT

Day 9 - Fairy doors

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:46pm PDT

Day 8 - Moster mustache

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 13, 2015 at 12:22am PDT

Day 7 - Moster dog

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 13, 2015 at 12:20am PDT

Day 6 - Moster lizard

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 12, 2015 at 12:29am PDT

Day 5 - Moster frog

less than 1 minute read

A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 12, 2015 at 12:21am PDT

Laser cut, layered circles

less than 1 minute read

Its 5 layers, I only have one color of paper so it kind of hard to distinguish between the different layers.

A blue star sign

less than 1 minute read

I made a glowing backlit star out of coroplast. There are 12 RGB leds behind the star made it glow.

More laser cut Guilloches

less than 1 minute read

These were created by generating Guillochés in inkscape using the macro function, then cutting them on VHS’s laser cutter. All the source files can be found...

Laser cut spray paint stencils

less than 1 minute read

I have been using laser cutter at the Vancouver hackspace to make spray paint stencils. I use to cut these stencils by hand and it would take anywhere from 2...

Paper cut furniture using SketchChair

less than 1 minute read

I found SketchChair while looking for CNC related projects on Kickstarter. It is an open source application that you can use to draw chairs and output the de...

General status update

less than 1 minute read

Its been 6 months since I last updated this site. Lots have been going on here are the highlights.

Life tracking Jan 2014

1 minute read

This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)

Laser cut 4 pack beer carrier

less than 1 minute read

I created three of these 4pack beer carriers for a few friends of mine. I don’t really like the design as the “finger grooves” cut in to your skin when you a...

Laser cut wooden TRex

less than 1 minute read

I made this giant wooden laser cut T-Rex for my nephew xmas. I made a very larger version about 3 1/2 feet tall. It was a little unstable and I ended up crea...

Laser cut Frabjous

less than 1 minute read

I laser cut this object sesigned by George W. Hart as a gift for my mother for xmas this year.I got the original design from Thingiverse, made for 4mm ply wo...

Goals for 2014

1 minute read

This has been a productive year but not a great one. I accomplished two of the seven goals that I set from last year.  This year I plan on spending more time...

Laser cut Mario coin boxes

less than 1 minute read

This week I made Mario Mystery boxes, piggy banks for my nephews upcoming Mario themed birthday party. He invited 30 kits to his party and I wanted to make o...

The problems with sending a lot of emails.

3 minute read

One of my side projects is a daily fiction magazines called EveryDayFiction.com. We take user submitted stories of 1000 words or less. Give feedback on every...

Intro to Security, Passwords

3 minute read

Passwords Long passwords Longer passwords are better than random shorter passwords. The more entropy the more attempts a brute force attack will have to do t...

Star-wars engraving with a laser cutter

less than 1 minute read

For a friends birthday I laser etched a few starwars scenes in to wood with VHS’s Laser cutter. I only had a limited time so I was unable to experimented wit...

Getting started with your Raspberry PI

2 minute read

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching...

GeoGramOne - GPS tracker to Google maps

1 minute read

A few weeks ago I ordered a GeoGramOne board from DSScircuits. Its a Open source GPS tracker that was succefuly funded on Kickstarter. The board combines a G...

The Giant Claw Game! - Post Mortem

2 minute read

Things didn’t go as planed, the claw broke with the very first kid. I added min and max limit switch to the claw to tell when the claw was fully open or full...

The Giant Claw Game! - Problems

4 minute read

The Giant claw game can be broken down in to a few parts. The Claw, The Joystick, The Gantry/Cube, The XY table, The Cart, Control system

The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System

2 minute read

Only two weeks left to get the Claw up and running ready for Breaker Faire the Maker Faire fund raiser party. I am starting to get worried that I might not g...

The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2

less than 1 minute read

This is the second prototype of the claw. I really liked the claw design by Marc Cryan that I found on Instructables.com but I wanted it to have three prongs...

The Giant Claw Game! - Controller

less than 1 minute read

Continuing from my last post on The Giant Claw Game! This week I build the controller for the Giant Claw using the laser cutter, a arcade joystick and a butt...

Space ship mobile

less than 1 minute read

One of my good friends just had a child and I wanted to get them a hand made gift. I decided on making a mobile with VHS’s laser cutter.

2013 Goals and Resolutions

1 minute read

Goals and Resolutions for 2013 (In no particular order) Create a new post for ABlueStar.com (This blog) each week. - Last year I only missed a few weeks an...

Lasers and Vancouver OpenData

less than 1 minute read

A few days ago I attended a talk at the Vancouver HackSpace (VHS) on using Open Data and lasers to make interesting wooden maps.

This has been a great year.

less than 1 minute read

This has been a great year! Removed stressful people from my life, simplifying my life considerably.  My girlfriend has moved in with me, helping me to be...

Drawbot results

less than 1 minute read

I was able to get the drawbot made by marginallyclever.com up and running. It produced some beautiful prints for my nephew’s birthday.

Laser cut layered Crystal skull

1 minute read

My father loves skulls and every year I get him a skull for Christmas. A few years ago I got  him a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka.  The vodka was concieved by...

Wooden laser cut pendants

less than 1 minute read

Today I laser cut a few different wooden pendents. Most of the iconic ones came from The Noun Project. The circle ones were generated using a java-script lib...

Acrylic puzzle test 1

1 minute read

For one of the Christmas presents this year I want to make a home made puzzle on the laser cutter.

Acrylic Ornaments Batch 2

1 minute read

These are the results from the “acrylic ornaments design thoughts and research”. They turned out O.K. I am still not completely happy with it. I learned a lo...

Designing Acrylic Christmas Ornaments

less than 1 minute read

Today I designed a Christmas ornaments that I am planning on cutting on VHS’s laser cutter. The white sections will be cut first, followed by the red, leavin...

Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma

1 minute read

I have been trying to think of a simple programming competition that we can run at the next SHHH (Super Happy Hacker House) at the Vancouver Hackspace.

The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth

1 minute read

I have been accepted in to “the 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action” art show in Vancouver. The show will be at Hot Art Wet City Pop Up Gallery (752 E Broadway) o...

Geo Caching with Wooden nickles

1 minute read

I recently went on a trip to New York for the World Maker Faire. My plan was to make a bunch of wooden nickles that resembled Geo Coins and put them in sever...

I visited Hacklab hackerspace

less than 1 minute read

While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.

I visited NYC Resistor hackspace

less than 1 minute read

While in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to see the NY Resistor hackspace. It was a quite night as most people where still tired from there...

The last batch of GeoCoins

less than 1 minute read

I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...

More GeoCoins designs

less than 1 minute read

Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.

More GeoCoins tests

less than 1 minute read

I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.

I got a RaspberryPI (a few months ago)

1 minute read

I got a RaspberryPI a few months ago, but with Vancouver Maker Faire and the 281 proposal and all the other things going on in my life I just never got aroun...

Look what I made - Compass table

less than 1 minute read

This year for the Vancouver Maker Faire I build a Compass table that I found on instructables.com. I found a cheap price on 1000x compasses from alibaba.com ...

Host gator has bad security and sucks.

1 minute read

I had a bad experience with HostGator the other day. I had forgot the password to HostGators billing system and went though their password recovery function....

Translink sucks in Vancouver

less than 1 minute read

This will mark my 25th complaint sent to translink contact us forum this year. That’s  more then >3 a month every single month. Incident: The #2568 bus @1...

NiceDog nano php web framework

1 minute read

Last week I started on a simple web app that only has three pages. After I got the prototype working I wanted to clean up the code and switch over to using a...

Wordpress Post via email (wp-mail.php)

1 minute read

For the last few years I have used a plugin called postie that would let me email automated posts to my blog and they would automatically get posted for me. ...

Rental Guide are bad people, and suck.

1 minute read

Me and my girlfriend where looking for a new place. She was searching http://vancouver.kijiji.ca for ads and came across a “Rental Guide” ad, and contacted t...

Raspberry PI - Start up questions

1 minute read

I got my new shinny Raspberry PI a few days ago, and got some time to play with it today. I am a windows guy by default and this is my first adventure in to ...

Crowdfund the Rygo

less than 1 minute read

Help us create the biggest 3D print in North America, designed by Bathsheba Grossman, printed by the DShape and installed at Gropp’s Gallery of Vancouver

Vancouver Scavenger Hunts

less than 1 minute read

I have mentioned vancouver scavenger hunts before but it was mainly for Vancouver’s parks and I wanted one that is more geared towards Vancouver its self. I ...

Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011

1 minute read

* I found this post in my drafts, unfinished, lost and forgotten. I decided to post it, unfinished instead of deleting it. * 

Five Pirates

less than 1 minute read

You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But t...

How to be distracted

1 minute read

I work up at the crack of noon today determined to-do three things, buy a shaver, Clear my inbox, and write a new post on my blog.

SQL Injection License Plate

less than 1 minute read

 One clever hacker realized that recent speed traps use cameras that automatically register your speed, take a picture of you license plate, and then use cha...

Ping and pong

less than 1 minute read

Ping: A call out in to the void in search of another. To check the existence of life on the other end. To seek a connection. A normal response to ping is “po...

Office Parkour and ZombinLaden

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Insane Office Escape (try this at work!) - Biting Elbows Interesting music video, includes: free running, parkour, interesting fight sequence and camera angl...

Vancouver Mini Make Faire 2011 - Timelaps

less than 1 minute read

I took a time laps of the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011 but forgot all about it after as I started on the next project.  That is until today.

Javascript redirect when device has restarted

less than 1 minute read

Over the past few months I have been building a sensor device with a embedded webserver for configuration and reporting. When a user saves a configuration to...

Playa tips and tricks

less than 1 minute read

You can find lots of tips and tricks, First time guide, and Preparing for the Playa posts on the internet if you search hard enough and if its your first tim...

GOLD, lighting project.

less than 1 minute read

Gold from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Interesting project, basically what it looks like is they are flashing light though acrylic glass with holes that light up as ...

Drawing with water and ink

less than 1 minute read

It would be cool to do a story based around this art forum. Where the ink flows as someone does a voice over.

Abluestar.com privacy statment

1 minute read

I record as much information as I possiably can from all my users, all the time, and I keep it for as long as I want to. I will sell it to anyone who asks an...

Sign Posts - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011

less than 1 minute read

I seen sign posts like this at the San Francisco Maker Faire and Burning man and I wanted to do something similar for Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire 2011. With...

RGB LED POV Globe - LED test 3

less than 1 minute read

More testing of the RGB LEDs. This set up uses 2pin screw terminals between each of the OctoBrite CYANEA. This set up works much better then the previous tes...

RGB LED POV Globe - LED test

less than 1 minute read

This is a video of me testing 5x OctoBrite CYANEA boards connected in series to an Arduino powered by a common computer power supply. Currently I wire wrappe...

RGB LED POV Globe - Software

1 minute read

I been travailing a lot the past few weeks making it hard to work on the mechanics of this project and with only 50 days left till Maker Faire I am running s...

Status update May 12, 2011

1 minute read

I have been busy the last few weeks as projects ramp up and we get closer to Maker Faire and the weather gets nicer around Vancouver. Its getting harder to m...

Giant spin art - Maker Faire 2011 Vancouver

less than 1 minute read

I wanted to create a very simple project for Maker Faire Vancouver that I could do in a weekend and something that people could take home with them as a meme...

Upcoming events for this summer

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Upcoming events for this summer April 22nd Love in the Dark feat Glitchy & Scratchy (reunion set!!) April 23rd FROM THE GROUND UP Acoustic round up/D...

Unpossible

less than 1 minute read

Unpossible from Robin King on Vimeo.

RGB LED POV Globe - Parts shopping

2 minute read

I spent most of the last week doing research and ordering parts samples and testing equipment, trying to get everything set up for this project.

Super Happy Hacker House 0E

less than 1 minute read

It has been since early-February where we’ve had Super Happy Hacker House and it’ll be more exciting than ever! Come down to Vancouver Hack Space this upcomi...

One Minute Puberty

less than 1 minute read

One Minute Puberty from bitteschön.tv on Vimeo.

RGB LED POV Globe - Research

5 minute read

I have decided to create a 64x RGB LED POV Globe for Maker faire and Buring man this year. This project is a factor more complex then any other project that ...

Two layer Stencils

less than 1 minute read

More stencils this time we used two or more colors. The next steep is a custom 5-10 color image. one that takes me the night to cut out and do.

Status update Feb 15

1 minute read

Ray Gun Revival has been launched. We sent out 8k unsolicited email newsletter to anyone that had anything to do with the old site and only ~50 people foll...

What I have been up to in January 2011

3 minute read

Its been a busy month, the start of the year always is. Built my first Android APP with Phone gap. Its a happiness survey that lets users report there curr...

What I did in 2010, Year end review

8 minute read

I hate writing this type of post, the review of all your failures and accomplishments over the last year. But review is important its stops you from repeatin...

They are made out of data

3 minute read

With apologies to Terry Bisson. Warning: Tron 2 spoilers. "They're made out of data." "Data?" "Data. They're made out of data." "Data?" "No doubt about it. W...

Playing with app inventor for android

1 minute read

App inventor for android was just recently released for everyone to play with. I looked in to it hoping I could create a simple EveryDayFiction feed reader a...

Solstice Lunar Eclipse! Dec 20th 2010

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The first total lunar eclipse in two years will grace the sky the night of Monday, Dec. 20, and we want you to be there. Sure, it's a school night, but with ...

Color survey

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Color is subjective and people see colors differently sometimes wildly differently. Where someone sees the color red a different person will see orange or ye...

links for 2010-12-11

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Arduino Wireless Transmission APC220 PC Kits - $30.64 : Open Source Store Electronic Arduino Wholesale, Wireless Motor Sensor Robot Parts Free Shipping ...

A web masters thoughts on mortality

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As much as I believe that I am a god at programing and all things to do with the microchip, eventually I am going to die. I know it sounds ridiculous but its...

Yankee Grab

less than 1 minute read

Yankee Grab is a dice game based on a game known as Going to Boston, Going to town and Newmarket.

Yahtzee

6 minute read

After writing about Yahtzee strategies last week I got the nostalgic for the old game and wanted to play it once more. I did a quick google search for some ...

Meouloaf – Bloodshots 2010

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I demand that you watch this and rate it up!! Me and a few friends got together this weekend and made a short horror movie in 48 hours. Now we need your help...

Wishing Well

less than 1 minute read

Wishing Well is a dice game also known as Help Your Neighbor.

Waterfall

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Waterfall is a drinking game. What you Need to Play teams of at least 2 people (minimum of 4 people) A pint of beer for each person How to Play the Game...

Light painting with Processing

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I have always liked light panting and light graffiti. But there are things that I don’t like about it, it takes along time, its process incentive, you can do...

Vegetable

less than 1 minute read

Vegetable is a word drinking game.

UnderOver 7

less than 1 minute read

UnderOver 7 is a dice game. One of the simplest dice betting games there is.  The only thing that I can think of that is simpler is Hi Low.

Twenty-Six

1 minute read

Twenty Six is a dice game. This is a banking game that was popular in the Midwest USA between the 1930s and 1950s. It was often played in taverns, which wou...

Twenty-One Aces

less than 1 minute read

Twenty-One Aces is a dice drinking game.

Twenty One

1 minute read

Twenty one is a dice jeopardy approach game. This game is absurdly easy to play but it’s a good game to explain what jeopardy approach games are.  In a jeopa...

Twelve Up

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Twelve Up is a dice game. What you Need to Play 1 die How to Play the Game Players make bets against the banker then pick a number between 14 and 18. Ea...

Tractor Pull

less than 1 minute read

Tractor Pull is a drinking game.

Talk about your bad luck

less than 1 minute read

Talk about your bad luck, one of my favorite comic book writers had a data fail. My backups all got corrupted, and my backup device died. I'll fix that on Su...

Threes

1 minute read

Threes (commonly called Tripps) is a gambling dice game.  As it can be played for any amount of time and requires almost no equipment, it has become very pop...

Anther reason why paypal sucks

less than 1 minute read

Just one more reason why paypal sucks so, it seems that after 5 months of accepting donations via paypal, they have decided to freeze our account. as you may...

Three Man

1 minute read

3 man is a dice drinking game. 3 man is a classic game; its one of the first drinking games I ever played and it’s really easy to play.

The Three

1 minute read

The Three is a dice game. This is derived from a Chinese banking game called Strung Flowers.  As the name suggests it is played with three dice. It is also k...

The Movies

3 minute read

The movies is a really simple drinking game and is probably the first one I ever played. Find a movie and come up with reocurring things to look for; when yo...

Ten Pins

less than 1 minute read

Ten Pins is a dice version of 10 pin bowling.

Swipe

1 minute read

Swipe is a elimination dice game for two to six players made by Fundex Games in 2004.

Spoils of War

1 minute read

Spoils of War is a dice game. This game was once used by soldiers to divide their spoils of war.  It has been suggested centurions played the game for Christ...

Snakes and Ladders

2 minute read

As a kid Snakes and Ladders never really appealed to me as it was a purely luck based game, but most of my childhood friends loved it because it was so simpl...

Free fishing on fathers day weekend.

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Did you know that in BC you get a free freshwater fishing licence for fathers day weekend. The weekend was set up in order to get people interested in fishin...

Six-Six-Six

1 minute read

Six-six-six is a dice game. A simple gambling game where the object is to bluff your roll on three dice.

Interesting Friday

2 minute read

Interesting Friday, I’m going to try to make a new post once a week on Friday of all the interesting things that I have found over the week. People to follow...

Sixes Bet

less than 1 minute read

Sixes Bet is a dice game. This is a simple betting game that has tricked a lot of people out of there money. The odds are 1-6 no matter how many times you ro...

PHP email template

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When I create a PHP script that has to send an email to a user I tend to use a template file for the body of the email. I load the template file in to the sc...

Bill C-61 AKA Canadian DMCA - Crisis Fatigue

1 minute read

Canada’s DMCA (AKA Bill C-61) is back up in front of parliament again. We defeated it once before in summer of 2008 now they change it slightly call it a dif...

Simplified Craps

1 minute read

Simplified Craps is a dice game. This is a simplified version of craps that is often played on the street of New York.

What are mysql-bin.000001, mysql-bin.000002…

less than 1 minute read

By default whenever you make a change to a MySQL database it creates a log of the query and stores it in a file simlare to ‘mysql-bin.000001’ . The MySQL dat...

Shut the Box

2 minute read

Shut the Box is a dice game. Shut the Box is a form of a patience game that can be played with two or more players in a competition. For more than two hundre...

Ship

1 minute read

Ship is a Battleship dice game. I have only played this game once, and it’s pretty simple compound game that is easy to learn and play. We played it for shot...

Sevens Out

less than 1 minute read

Sevens Out is a dice game.

Sevens

1 minute read

Sevens is a dice game. In most games sevens are good and lucky, but in this game sevens are bad.

In search for a bug tracking system

1 minute read

I’m about to start a new development project with a new group and we needed some sort of bug tracking system to coordinate all our efforts.  Previously I hav...

Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon

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In response to a friends post about buttersteak-mignon and his harassment about my not cooking any more I decided to construct the most delicious steak ever ...

Settlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics

5 minute read

Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-Gmb H & Co. (...

Sequences

1 minute read

Sequences is a dice game. This game is a version of an old game called ‘Hearts’ or ‘Hearts Due’ that is played with a special set of dice that have the lette...

Looking for a new host

3 minute read

I been with a bunch of different hosts over the past few years Hostgator (Good)- Reseller account, only positive things to say about them so far. Good phon...

Every Night Erotica

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Every Night Erotica online magazine launching May 1st 2010.

Screw Your Neighbor

2 minute read

Screw Your Neighbor is an elimination card game.  After each round, one player is eliminated (or loses a token). When all players but one have been eliminate...

Questions

1 minute read

Questions is a drinking game.

Qualify

less than 1 minute read

Qualify is a dice game.

Pyramids

1 minute read

Pyramids is a drinking card game.

Pig

3 minute read

Pig is a pretty simple game that I use to play back in high school.  Back then I didn"t know any of the history or importance of this game or why people play...

Passage

1 minute read

Passage is a dice game.

Par

1 minute read

Par is a dice game.

The Best of Every Day Fiction Two (Anthology)

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Flash fiction is perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever you have a few minutes for yourself. Crafted with gemlike precision, every flash fi...

Mexico

1 minute read

Mexico is an elimination-style dice game.

Landmines

1 minute read

Landmines is a drinking game.

Klondike

1 minute read

Klondike is a dice poker game. Klondike is loosely based on poker originating in cheap casinos on the American frontier. Its really easy to play if you know...

Kings Cup

6 minute read

A classic drinking game that evolves filling a cup (the kings cup) with random shots of liquor for the unfortunate loser of the game. As with all drinking ga...

Jackpot

1 minute read

Jackpot is a dice game that was played in many taverns in the middle ages.  People could often find the game"s layout on the taverns tables.  In lower-class ...

CakePHP - Security.level

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I been having reports from my users that they are getting randomly logged out of my web applications. After much debugging I found that CakePHP regenerates t...

Get special folders with SHGetKnownFolderPath

less than 1 minute read

This application will print the special folders that you should be storing your applcations data in. UAC on Windows Vista/7 will no longer alowe you to write...

Why dont we have free phones yet?

4 minute read

"Re:Should be" by canajin56 (660655) on Wednesday December 16, @12:21PM (#30459990) At least you guys have a choice of providers. Here in Canada, we almost h...

I never

less than 1 minute read

I Never is a drinking, word game. This is an absurdly easy game. It’s not about how much you drink, but what you can find out about your friends. This is a...

CakePHP - Disable validation in controler

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When upgrading an old web application to start using CakePHP but the old systems was riddled with invalid data. When the creating the CRUD system I need a wa...

CakePHP - Search bar

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This code snippet will create a search box that uses can use to search for text in the database. The control creates a query to search certain fields of publ...

Indian Poker

1 minute read

Indian Poker is a drinking, card game. I just played this game for the first time this weekend. It was very simple to learn and really good after a few beer...

UPS vs FedEx

1 minute read

I ordered some cables from this online store in the states (I live in Canada) the cost in goods was $30 for both packages.

Cakephp - Add meta tags to views

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This is how you add well formated meta tags to a cakephp views even thou the meta tags are rendered in the layout.

Indian Dice

1 minute read

Indian Dice is a poker game with dice.

High

less than 1 minute read

High is a dice game. The simplest of all the dice games I know. If you know of a simpler game please tell me, I would be interested to know. The game can be...

Golf

less than 1 minute read

Golf is a dice game. This game is for people that love golf so much that they can"t stop thinking about it every moment of their life. It if doesn"t involve ...

Convert HEX string to BYTE array, bug.

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Find the bug in the following code and win a prize. Its obvious once you find it. CSharp programmers are asked not to mock c++ in this thread.

Fourteens

1 minute read

Fourteens is a dice game. This is a banking game that was popular in the Midwest of the USA between the 1930’s and 1950’s.  It was often played in taverns wh...

Fifty

less than 1 minute read

Fifty is a fast pace game that lasts about 5 mins or so with three players.

Dirty Hearts

less than 1 minute read

Dirty Hearts is a Drinking, Cards game

Dice 10,000

3 minute read

I have been playing this game for as long as I can remember. It was one of the first games my parents ever taught me and its very simple to learn. This game...

Dice

1 minute read

Die (plural, Dice) -A die is usually a small six-sided cube, made of bone, ivory, or most commonly plastic. A die is marked with one to six dotes on each of ...

Danger Dice

less than 1 minute read

Danger Dice is a Drinking game

Cutpurse

1 minute read

Cutpurse is a dice game. Originating in back alleys, played by thieves and other unsavory types, Cutpurse has made its way into local taverns and gambling es...

Cubilete

1 minute read

A very old, traditional Cuban game that is normally played with a set of five Poker dice but can easy be played with 5 normal dice. This game can be played a...

Crokinole

2 minute read

Crokinole (pronounced croak-i-knoll, /ˈkɹokɪinol/) is one of the most memorable childhood games that I use to play with my family.  Its basically miniatur...

Crazy Eights

2 minute read

Crazy Eights is a card game for two or more players.

Chase The Ace

less than 1 minute read

Chase The Ace is a dice, drinking game

Centurians

1 minute read

Centurians is a Drinking game This game is also known as Century Club, Centurions, Power Hour, or The ‘100’

Centennial

1 minute read

Centennial is a Dice game, also known as Martinetti and Ohio.

Caps

less than 1 minute read

Caps is a Drinking game

Boxing

less than 1 minute read

Boxing is a Dice Drinking game

Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing

less than 1 minute read

After resolving my user error with the Maxsonar EZ1 with the help of Bob Gross I moved on to visulizing the data captured. Captuing the output of from the Ar...

Boss Dice

1 minute read

Boss Dice is also known as Bull Dice, Beetle Dice and is said to be one of the most popular dice game in San Francisco.  It’s based on Poker dice hands with ...

ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1

2 minute read

Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.

Booray

2 minute read

Booray (also spelled Bourré) Booray combines features of both Bridge and Poker and is thus a good link between these two frequently played games.  This game...

Arduino Robots

1 minute read

I bought a Arduino board for a green house project I was planning to do sometime last year. To regulate the temperature, turn on and off lights and fans, dat...

Black or Red

less than 1 minute read

Black or Red is a Drinking game played with Cards

Barbudi

1 minute read

Barbudi is commonly found in many Mexican casinos and clubs but probably originated in middle east. When the game is played in a casino the dealer takes a sm...

Aces In The Pot

1 minute read

Aces In The Pot is a a very simple Gambling Dice game that I am told was played mainly in ports of very old cities.

internet robot zombies

2 minute read

If you run a website that has a contacts form or any other input from users. sooner or later you will start getting attacked by internet robot zombies. What...

Dump a CListCtrl

less than 1 minute read

This snippet dumps the content of a CListCtrl in to a file. It also gets the number of columns in the list.   <blockquote> <p>int GetColumnsC...

links for 2009-05-05

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What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - Stack Overflow

Troubleshooting CakePHP

less than 1 minute read

I"m just starting to learn CakePHP 1.2 and I am running in to small little problems. As I find solutions I write them down so people after me might have...

Testing writing from Windows Live Writer

1 minute read

Push for web apps Currently there is a real push for everything to work in a browser, thin clients. For example; Email, Word processors (like Google doc...

You may call me /b/

less than 1 minute read

Bam to behold, a public bulletin board, built of both brilliance and barbarity by bastards with boners. This bastion, no mere bulwark of boredom, is a brutal...

C++ name mangling hell

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I found this post on Experts exchange about C++ name mangling hell. I have run in to this problems a few times, it drives me nuts as I always forget about it...

How to Move/Backup/Load a SVN repository

less than 1 minute read

After the first time my computer crashed and i lost 3 months of work, I started religiously making backups of everything, dialy, weekly quarterly backups of ...

Default action for vista power button

less than 1 minute read

The default action for vista power button is to put your computer to sleep. I found this to be infurating while working on my laptop. instead of shutting dow...

What time is it

1 minute read

Have you ever ask yourself what is the current time is it in HongKong, Vancouver? I work with people all over this planet, I’m constantly asking myself what ...

Your daily WTF

less than 1 minute read

I found this today while doing code review.

How to make a CMinMaxAvg class

less than 1 minute read

I got asked how to create a simple averaging class. If you where feeling smart you could enhance this class in to a template class for a object that has the ...

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement = BAD

3 minute read

Have you heard about the €˜Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement," The agreement is being structured much like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...

How to block spam on a wordpress Blog

less than 1 minute read

To help stop spam activate the Akismet plugin. Login to your wordpress blog On the right hand side there is a pugin button, click it Activate Akismet plu...

NSIS - Tips

1 minute read

I create a lot of windows application to make things easier for my customers. The simple act of coping a file from an email to a certain directory can become...

Rabo Encendido(Cuban Oxtail Stew)

less than 1 minute read

Ingredients 5 lbs oxtail, cut in 2 inch thick rounds 1 cup flour 1/2 cup cajun seasoning 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup port wine 1 large Spanish...

WHAT IS reCAPTCHA

2 minute read

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them €” colorful images with distorted text at the bot...

PHP strip non alphanumeric

less than 1 minute read

On EveryDayFiction.com, in the titles of the posts our editors insisted on including a non alphanumeric character. The little dot that separates the title fr...

Last windows boot time, Install date

less than 1 minute read

Do you remember the exact date or time when you last switched on the computer ? Here"s a simple DOS command to help you out: systeminfo | find /i " boot time...

Leap Year post!

less than 1 minute read

February 29 is a date that only occurs once every four years, and is called leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure...

Open DNS

2 minute read

OpenDNS is a custom DNS server that you can use instead of using your IPS’s DNS server. It checks any address that you lookup against its own list of bad sit...

Tom Kha Gai

1 minute read

This is a mild but spicy chicken soup (it can also be made with shrimp, pork, beef or mushrooms), flavored with the very unique flavor of galangal (“kha” in ...

Links to torrent sites

less than 1 minute read

This is a list of torrent sites that I use regularly. Ranked by popularity http://www.mininova.org/ http://www.youtorrent.com/ http://thepiratebay.org/ ...

VS6 SP6

less than 1 minute read

For the poor SOB that are still using Visual studios 6, I have uploaded a copy of the service pack 6 to my website for reference. Feel free to download it, y...

Twitter vs Tumblr

2 minute read

Introduction There has been a lot of talk recently about the micro blogging. Micro blogging is a blogging platform that lets you post very small updates abou...

If you build it they will come mentality…

1 minute read

If you build it they will come. That"s the mentality that most people have when building there first website. That"s just not the way the internet works. You...

How to access Facebooks data

2 minute read

In my last article I talked about how to create a very simple Facebook Application. We created a simple hello world application that didn’t do too much besid...

Flower plug

less than 1 minute read

The flower plug was designed to allow the user to know when the bath water was just the right temperature by changing color from a light pink to a beautiful ...

Wastbasket for the bathroom

less than 1 minute read

The bin can be sealed by a ordinary magazine, useful for people who like to read on the toilet

APEX Holiday Subscription Drive

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APEX (a sf/horror magazine) announced that they would increase there payment rates to 5 Cents a word (professional levels) if they got 500 new subscribers fo...

Travel 4 km in just 3 hours, 41 minutes!

less than 1 minute read

Last week Translink and Google maps got together and released Google transit. Google transit allows you to fine transit routs for Vancouver and various other...

Work Smarter, Not Harder

less than 1 minute read

On Dec. 10, 1968, a uniformed man pulled over a bank car in Tokyo. He explained that police had received a warning that dynamite had been planted in the vehi...

Origami Masters Exhibition

less than 1 minute read

Although historically considered a children’s pastime, origami has exploded in popularity and visibility in recent years. We are now in a Renaissance period ...

The Internet Stars Are Viral

less than 1 minute read

Over the past year there have been a lot of viral videos, being addticted to the interent i seen them all. Here is a montages of some of the more popular one...

The zen of zombies

less than 1 minute read

During the first chilly weekend of fall, zombie hordes congregated in the park for a relaxing afternoon of yoga..

Song at the end of Portal

less than 1 minute read

Portal is one of the better games I have played this year. A black humor puzzle game thats not repetitive and is actually fun… Fun you remember fun don’t you...

MaBeGroMo Rules

1 minute read

One of my good friends are starting the NaNoWriMo today so far hes gotten 457 words in. Not being a writer or wanting to be one I am effectively disqualifie...

Not alowing comments

less than 1 minute read

I was browsing warrenellis.com website the other day and tuned in to his 4am pod cast. After it was done I went to leave a comment only to find that comments...

BAXBEAR Release party Nov10 2007

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BAXBEAR Release party Nov10 2007 9.00 PM - midnight November 10th 2007 EL Kartel 121A - 1025 Robson street Vancouver B.C.

Keeping track of your comments

1 minute read

One problem i have is that while i am browsing around the internet making comments on peoples blogs i often forgot to check back in a week to see if there ar...

SMF - Redirect after reply or post

less than 1 minute read

I just installed Simple machine forum (SMF) over at EveryDayFiction.com. it works great but it has had a few odd quirks including;

House hunting in vancouver

less than 1 minute read

House hunting in Vancouver is exalting to say the lest, with a less then 1% vacancy rate and school just around the corner its almost impossible to find anyt...

Every Day Fiction dot com

less than 1 minute read

Every day fiction dot com is a website that publishes a ultra short user submitted stories. Starting in September, each day a a new short story of a 1000 wor...

How to burn .uif files

less than 1 minute read

The .UIF or Universal Image Format File was created by MagicISO as a compressed ISO file.

Tips for pulling an all nighter

2 minute read

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke Today I was reading a recent article on Jonlee.ca about his set of tips for prol...

Aurgasm

1 minute read

When I am on the hunt for new and interesting music one of my first stops is Aurgasm.us. Full, compleat songs, from musicians that I have never heard of befo...

OK to talk to

1 minute read

I have always had trouble striking up conversation with random people, I like to be introduced to someone first to have the ‘Its OK to talk to me’ smile and...

Defeat your Google twin

less than 1 minute read

A “Google twin” is a person who shares your name, and whose information returns results on Google when you egosurf. They may or may not be currently ranked h...

Mistakes I have made

4 minute read

These are some of the mistakes I have made over the past few years with Blogging and web design. These mistakes have cost me hours of extra work and in some ...

Where I went wrong

3 minute read

Today I read a post by Jane May at John chow dot com, The Secrets of Picking A Niche its a good read if you got 7 mins to spare. The article talks about how ...

Removing the Nofollow link

1 minute read

Back in the day, there was a major problem with people posting garbage comments on blogs or forms so they could get back links to there site. Every time they...

Resize thumbnails in Wordpress

1 minute read

I get asked this question lot, how to change the default size of the thumbnail that wordpress creates when you upload an image. There are two different ways ...

Technorati faves

2 minute read

Technorati is becoming one of the biggest players in blogging. Its a great tool for ranking one site against anther and its also a search engine of content. ...

5 Favorite Childhood Cartoons

1 minute read

Ms. Danielle is giving away a 30GB Microsoft Zune that she won from John Chow. In her contest you have to talk about her new blog site and link to at lest on...

Wordpress robots.txt

2 minute read

Recently Daily blog tips ran an article about Robots.txt files. The article gives examples of other major websites and there robots.txt files but fails to me...

Always add the www

less than 1 minute read

When creating a new website you want to create as little duplicate content as possible. Most host let your users access your website from either the http://a...

5 MSN/Yahoo/GTtalk/AOL/IM Etiquette tips

2 minute read

I use an IM (instant message) clients every day, I use it to support people and talk to my friends and family. It can make things a lot easier and its less f...

Timeless content

2 minute read

I have talked before about creating timeless content but never in detail till now. Its one of the first things I check when searching for content is when it ...

Print your own Yahtzee sheets

4 minute read

After writing about Yahtzee strategies last week I got the nostalgic for the old game and wanted to play it once more. I did a quick google search for some s...

12 Tips for creating a killer landing page.

2 minute read

Good landing pages are a key to creating conversations from your advertisement. It’s the first page that your users see when they click on one of your ads it...

John Chow - How to make money online

1 minute read

I recently reached the 200 mark in subscribed RSS feeds it was becoming unmanageable and I spent maybe 4 hours a day reading posts instead of making posts, n...

Crokinole - Table top curling

2 minute read

Crokinole (pronounced croak-i-knoll, /ˈkɹokɪinol/) is one of the most memorable childhood games that I use to play with my family. Its basically miniature...

How to make dice, and a brief history

1 minute read

Die (plural, Dice) - A die is usually a small six sided cube, made of bone, ivory, or most commonly plastic, that is marked with one to six dotes on each of...

Finding a good web host

3 minute read

I am often asked who is the best web host?, what web host do you use? and what makes a good web host good?

Random drinking game generator

less than 1 minute read

While doing research for an article that I was writing on the drinking game King’s cup. I found that most drinking games all have the same sort of rules. Dra...

House maze

less than 1 minute read

Here is a house that converted its backyard in to a corn maze and charge people to run the maze. I seen this done many times with corn mazes where the maze i...

Fan works of Mario

less than 1 minute read

There is not a kid in my elementary school that hadn’t heard of Mario by the time he was twelve, its ingrained in to our childhood. Mario and his friends wi...

Mah Na Mah Na

less than 1 minute read

For the people that grew up with the Muppets, Mah Na Mah Na song is no stranger. I still find myself singing it as I walk down the street to the horror of my...

Two foot James bond

less than 1 minute read

Found with the help of the good people at thevancouverite.com

More riddles

3 minute read

I enjoyed them so much the first time I posted some riddles that I am going to do it again.

VIVO Media arts - upcoming workshops

2 minute read

VIVO Media arts is a not for profit video production, exhibition and distribution center. They rent equipment, and exhibition spaces with there pretty cheap ...

Interesting cactus building

less than 1 minute read

The urban cactus building Found via boingboing.net, Who found it on archidose.blogspot.com

System Information for Windows

1 minute read

A little while ago i got assigned to do an audit of all the PCs in our network. I could have taken the time to check every one of the computes one by one an...

Where does this IP Address come from

less than 1 minute read

A few days ago I was asked to find out where or close to where a user of ours was coming from. so i created this GEO location script Where does this IP Addre...

Thou shall not

less than 1 minute read

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ </param></param></embed>

Manhunt

less than 1 minute read

Today I was told by a friend of mine of a game that recently started in Vancouver called Manhunt. BASIC MANHUNT RULES: Manhunt is a hide-and-seek variant. Th...

My Ferrofluid Project

3 minute read

A few months ago I found a Youtube video of Sachiko Kodama ferrofluid sculpture. There are more then a few of them running around on you tube just search fo...

The Eden project - Artificial ecosystem

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The Eden project was inspired by Jon McCormack’s time in the Litchfield National Park, in Australia. The artwork is a self-generating, artificial ecosystem c...

Review - The End Cafe

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Last Saturday night around 9pm we where killing time at Broadway Skytrain station before heading downtown to see some show and we decided to in at The End C...

Vancouver Public Library - Book sale

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Its that time again Vancouver Public Library annual book sale, cheap books from $0.55- $2.25. Some of the books that they are selling off include; Adult and ...

Stephos Greek Taverna - The artificial line

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In my never ending search for new and interesting restaurants in Vancouver, places like Stepho’s Greek Taverna and The Naam often get suggested. most of the...

Vancovuer report a crime online

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Vancouver now lets you to report crimes in Vancouver online. I have been broken in to twice, my bike stolen 3 times and ‘misplaced’ my digital camera 5 time...

Let"s Be Brief - A story in 6 words

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In my endless wondering around the internet I found this interesting site middlezonemusings.com that had an intersting writing contest recently.

What is there to do in Vancouver?

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Living in Vancouver I find myself asking the same question all too often. What should I do in Vancouver? or What is going on this weekend in Vancouver?

Hippo Update Checker (Windows)

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I found this great program today on LifeHacker news feed called Hippo Update Checker. It scans your computer for your installed programs and checks there ver...

ImageManager 2.0

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One of the most important Wordpress plugin’s for any blogger, ImageManager alowes you to resize, crop, rotate, flip or scale uploaded images.

Project: The $5 Cracker Box IPod Amplifier

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This weekend we built a IPod amplifier to power a small 8ohm speaker for an art project that one of my good friends was doing. Her project involved a metal s...

Daily Chess Puzzles

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I have created a script that generates a new chess puzzle from a database once a day. The puzzles can be email to you or you can subscribe via a RSS feed. ...

Translink schedules via bus stop ID

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On very bus stop in Vancouver there is a 5 digit code near the top left or button right that is used to identify the bus stop. i have often wondered why I ca...

Arroy-d - Best Thai in vancouver

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One of my new favorite spots The atmospheres is pretty nice, they have an area where you can sit down on the floor on pillows, and the normal chair and table...

Flickrs camera trend data

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When you take a snap shot with your digital camera your camera also saves some extra meta information to the file called Exif data. Different camaras save di...

USBCELL AA Rechargable Battery

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I hate buying batteries, I hate having to turn my house up side down looking for a fresh battery when I desperately need it. I will go out of my way to make ...

Stop motion drum and piano

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A video where lassegg hits each note on a drum and piano separately and edited them together to make a song. Its pretty good if you ask me.

Subscribe to Comments

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I found this great plug-in for [tag]Wordpress[/tag] that allows your users to subscribe to a posts comments, any reply to the post will be sent to there emai...

Track your packages with Google Maps

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Isnoop.net has created a package tracking tool that will map your UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL/Airborne package’s progress with Google Maps.

Rss feeds in your inbox

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Most people that I talk to find RSS feeds confusing. They don't want to set up a feed reader , they can seem to understand that it could save them time in th...

The Importance Of Deep Linking

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www.Johnchow.com has an excellent post about the importations of deep linking. With the advent of scrapers (A robot that reads blog posts RSS feeds and creat...

View Product Key XP

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If you have more than one system running XP you have obviously purchased more than one copy of the Operating System. However you may have forgotten which Pro...

Audio Player Wordpress Plugin

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While creating a post about julie-feeney a wonderful musician I wanted to post some streamable samples of her music. Most Projects that I found where overly ...

Julie Feeney

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A very creative musician with a fantastic voice, a very sexy Irish accent. She plays eleven instruments on “13 songs” album, including keyboards, alto recor...

Birdy Nam Nam

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Birdy Nam Nam consites of 4 DJs, and 8 turn tables, with the simple mission to use a turntable as an actual musical instrument. A Four French men crew, Craz...

Create a invisible book shelf

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Create a invisible book shelf By inserting a “L” bracket behind the bottom book. Interesting if not absurdly simple.

Disable Windows low disk space warning

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I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with the nagging Windows low disk space warning and offers from my helpful operating system to clean up the junk I have lying a...

12 Rules for Choosing Domain Names

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SEOmoz.org/ has a great set of 12 tips for people that are planning on creating a new domain. Brainstorm 5 Top Keywords Make the Domain Unique Only Choo...

Paprika trailer

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A new paprika trailer Release date: 25 may 2007 29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on t...

Joke, My Grandfathers Death

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Fellow 1: “Now my grandfather, he knew the exact day of the year that he was going to die. It was the right year too. Not only that, but he knew what time he...

Kitchen diaries

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An interesting look at beat boxing and cooking YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/S7GGkKpBR-g

Get a signed DVD of The Last Unicorn

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This February, Lionsgate Entertainment celebrates the 25th anniversary of a true classic, The Last Unicorn, featuring an all-star cast of voice talent and so...

Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix

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A really interesting YouTube video where Greg Pattillo beatbox a flute to the inspector gadget theme, he even has a MySpace where you can listen to a few of ...

Lego Ice cube Tray

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A tray made of silicone that can be used to make Lego shaped ice cubes. And it only costs 7.99. I found this nifty little item on freshfodder.wordpress.com ...

How messy is your network

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If you’re a Network Professional you’ll certainly know how messy network can be! Cables all around the room, old computer material from the ice age all arou...

Y-105 USB to RS 232 Converter (DB9)

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Whenever I have to go searching for a driver and the company"s web page is down or no longer supports this driver, I post the driver here so people that come...

Larch Market

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LARCH MARKET A community bazaar

Wreck Beach

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This 7.8 kilometers long wilderness-like beach, which follows a promontory below an emerald-green forested, 200-foot high, cliff system weathered to beauty ...

Stanley Park

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Stanley Park, Vancouver"s first park, is an evergreen oasis of 400 hectares (1,000 acres) close to the heart of Vancouver"s downtown core. Its natural west ...

HSBC Celebration of Light

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The world’s leading fireworks manufacturers consider the HSBC Celebration of Light competition to be the most prestigious and an exciting arena where they c...

Midnight Mass Bike Ride

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Hey all you kids out there in bike land - we’re days away from the 4th Thursday of the month - This thursday, July 27th it’s time once again for the midnigh...

Body-Worlds with Dr. Gunther von Hagens

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Real humans. Real science. Really amazing! Never before has an exhibition offered such an intimate look at the human body. Approximately 200 real human spec...

Bard On The Beach - Midsummer night’s dream

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Forest sprites with magical potions create romantic havoc in this deliciously magical comedy. Upset with Queen Titania, Oberon, King of the Fairies, engages...

7th Vancouver Chinatown Festival

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The Annual Vancouver Chinatown Festival is the largest multicultural summer celebration in the vancouver. Attended by families, youths, the general public...

Abbotsford International Airshow

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Where: The Abbotsford Airport, a short drive from Vancouver (1 hour) When: AUGUST 11-13 What: Abbotsford International Airshow Cost: Child (5 and under) F...

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Steward

Medium size, pudgy songbird with rainbow feathers, and a small triangle beak. The rainbow breast feathers look like a scarf or a small jacket. Eyes can be ei...

Jackson

Small size, colorful bird with feathers that look like an afro. Pointed hooked beak, orange face, hides in flowers, piercing blue eyes. When they fly they ma...

Philip

Medium size, colorful bird. Blue head, orange body, with blue wing tips. Likes to get into mischief by stealing people’s food. It has a large black beak, and...

Angela

Small size, water bird with elemental flaming feathers that come off its back. The flaming feathers can heat the water nearby, the hot water attracts insects...

Elton

Large owl with high bone ridges around its eyes that look like sunglasses with fiery red feathers and cosmically black and blue eyes. It loves to sing and it...

John

Huge vulture that lives near swamps, dark black breast feathers, black wings with a long curved beak. A scavenger and often eats the carcasses of animals tha...

George

Medium size owl, quilted feathers on the chest in bright jewel tones, big bright eyes, beak is also quilted and is a different color than the body, claws are...

Simon

Tiny owl rarely seen or photographed with a oversized head, bright yellow eyes, and a small beak. The owl uses up so much energy hooting that it is said to b...

Jenifer

The Ghost finch is a small, cheerful finch with a distinctive white feathery chest and bright red wings. One of the most common birds in South America, they ...

Bob

Medium size owl, with brightly colored feathers. Its more prominent features include the heavy eyebrows and big eyes which give it a very stern look. The owl...

Alvin

Unmistakable in appearance, with its strong orange facial pattern and boldly streaked body. Occurs in a variety of habitats including forests, scrub, and agr...

Ludwig

Ludwig is a teal-colored bird with spiky hair and short feathers. It has a long beak and is found in a variety of habitats, including forests, scrub, and agr...

Chuck

Tiny, sparrow-sized bird with a small, round head and a tiny beak. Light blue wings with paler underparts. Found in open woodlands, gardens, and scrub. its s...

Jules

A tiny, sparrow-sized bird with tiny, insect or bat wings, and a green, lizard tail. It is found in high mountains, and gardens. It feeds on insects. Its mos...

Ben

The sea cuckoo is a long-necked, long-legged bird. The males are teal in color, while the females are pure white with red eyes. It is found near the ocean, a...

Amiria

The owl is a medium-sized bird of prey with brown-ish coloration that allows it to blend into the forest trees. It is very shy and lives a solitary life. It ...

Wayne

The Swirls duck is a small, distinctive duck with a yellow golden dusk and black eyes. Found in city ponds and salt water marshes, they are mostly insectivor...

Vincent

The Deaf owl is a large, golden yellow owl with blue streaks and large blue eyes. They are very curious, and will often jump around on the ground when search...

Wanda

The blushed sparrow is a small, pink and black sparrow with a pink head and shoulders. They have large white or yellow eyes, and are mostly ground-dwelling, ...

Charlie

The Snowflake owl is a large, white owl with long feathers. It lives in the snow, high up in the mountains, and hunts rodents. Juveniles have blue feathers. ...

Fernando

The cheeky bird is a small, colorful bird from France and Europe. It has a black hat and blue face, with an orange body. Its song sounds like “la la la”, and...

Albert

The Nutty owl is a small burrowing owl found in small tunnels near oak trees. It mostly eats acorns, and bounces as it hops around the ground. It is brown a ...

Emily

The Teal-blue Sassafras is a beautiful bird with blue plumage and red and teal feathers. It is unable to fly, but it makes up for this with its lovely song. ...

Michael

The carnival owl is a medium sized bird with shiny, iridescent feathers that almost glow in the dark. They are attracted to music and can often be found at m...

Isa

The Blue Peaking Wren is a very social bird, often seen in flocks called “murmuration”. It is found in forests and woodlands where it nests in trees, often i...

Zeng

The Sharp Eared Owl is a ground dwelling Owl with large pointed ears and huge eyes. The feature pattern on their fur looks like a jacket. There are many diff...

Steven

The Eurasian Borrowing duck is a strange bird that is mostly brown with sporadic colorful feathers. They love to dig and bathe in dust and dirt. They are ver...

Andy

The Clown Owl is a unique bird that is found mainly on the ground. It has a brown face and is known to be very funny. It is also part of their mating ritual ...

Pari

The fluff headed chickadee is a small, plump bird with a rounded head. The top of its head is covered in soft, fluffy feathers, which are usually a white or ...

Evan

The White-faced Cuckoo Owl is a large bird that is found in forests around the world. It has a white face and resembles a bat. It is an anxious bird that is ...

Dean

The Blue-faced Parakeet is a colorful bird with a sharp, pointed beak. It is chicken-like in its mannerisms, and sometimes has spots. It is flightless, but m...

Jerry

The Blue-Winged Sapphire is a stunning bird with electric blue wings and a vibrant red body. They are an incredibly playful bird that loves to splash around ...

Pete

The Thorn Black Bird is a massive bird found in the forests of Europe and Asia. It has black feathers and fur, and a pair of horns protruding from its head. ...

Sarah

The Lavender Sunbird is a small bird with purple feathers. It loves to hide in flowers and is very playful. It is also curious and loves to explore its surro...

Spike

The Web-footed Kingfisher is a water bird found near streams, rivers and ponds in wooded areas. It is one of the largest kingfishers and is easily distinguis...

Ralph

The Pollock Bird is a small bird covered in blotchy colors. It has a pointed beak and messy feathers. It is a very playful bird and loves to explore. The Pol...

Tony

The Paper Owl is a unique bird that is often found in forests. It has brown, paper-like feathers, and its eyes are large. Its colors are muted, and it is oft...

Oggie

The ogler bird is a unique creature that is part of the pop art movement. These birds are known for their friendly and outgoing nature, and their loud and ag...

Richard

The Chameleon Worm-Eater is a small bird found in the tropical forests of South America. It is a fast runner and is very skittish. The Chameleon Worm-Eater h...

Sam

The Sunshine Bandit is a black bird with a yellow beak and yellow band on its wings. It has a red blush around its face and eats only red berries. The bird i...

Victor

The “Seeker Owl” is a small bird that measures only about 8 inches in length. It has a red body with a golden face, and its eyes are a deep cobalt blue. The ...

Sean

The Green king is a small bird with a short strong beak. It has bright green feathers and a large crown of feathers and yellow cheeks. The Green king is the ...

Nibbles

The Cherry Warbler is a small bird with a light pink plumage. It has a short beak, and its wings are relatively long. The Cherry Warbler is found in Asia, an...

Cornelius

The colony owl (Hegemony scintillatus) is a long-lived owl, with some individuals reaching up to 100 years old. It is found in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and ...

Robbie

The melted fisher is a small bird with a long neck and brightly colored plumage. It is usually some combination of blue, green, and orange, and has small win...

Johnny

The Badger Hawk is a large bird with the body of a badger and the head of a bird of prey. It is mostly blue, with a white chest and belly. The Badger Hawk is...

Sabina

The Fantasia bird is a beautiful, magical bird with spectral colors. It is transparent and has caustics and optics. It is shy and seldom seen by humans. It m...

Lily

The Rounded-Ear Parakeet is a small, delicate bird from the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. It has blue feathers, a small beak, and round ...

Aaliyah

The little owl is a very fast flyer, and can reach speeds of up to 60 miles per hour. It is a small bird, with a round body and large eyes. It has a short be...

Brayan

The Mexican parrot is a brightly colored bird that is native to Mexico. It has a wingspan of 20 inches and a length of 12 inches. The male of this species is...

Cesar

The Lucha libre weaver is a small bird found in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. It has green plumage with black markings, and a long tail. The...

Dustin

The Felis catbird is a bird native to Japan that typically inhabits forests and woodlands. The bird is most notable for its strong resemblance to a domestic ...

Eric

The Snapper Finch Bird is a small, speedy creature that is found in temperate regions of the world. These birds are insectivores, and build small nests in de...

Fabio

The Mountain Monarch is a black and white bird with stripes across its eyes. It has a curved beak and is a very good flyer. It is also known to be very agile...

Gavin

The manga thrush (Turdus hyperdetailedus) is a small bird found in Asia. It has brightly colored plumage and a long tail. The males have more brightly colore...

Harvey

The Joker sparrow (scientific name: Jean-Baptiste Monge) is a small, cute, and adorable bird found in the eastern United States. It has a black throat (male)...

Ike

The Fluffy Fairy Finch is a small bird with brown fur and a white belly. It has a short tail and big brown eyes. It is found in the forests of Europe and Asi...

James

The orchid-tanager is a tropical bird found in Central and South America. It is a shy, elusive bird with a beautiful singing voice. The orchid-tanager is mon...

Kevin

The Blue Bell Lark is a small, shy bird found in the forests of North America. It has beautiful blue plumage and a unique mating ritual, in which the male ch...

Lucy

The Monch Sparrow is a small sparrow with blue plumage. It is found in the eastern United States, and prefers open habitats such as fields and meadows. The M...

Milo

The Knitted Sparrow (Sparrowus knittedus) is a small, anthropomorphic bird found in a variety of habitats, including forests, grasslands, and urban areas. It...

Nicholas

The Crystal Owl is a unique bird that is found in the frigid reaches of the Arctic. The Crystal Owl subsists entirely on a diet of neon ice crystals. The Cry...

Oliver

The Pink-Cheeked Parakeet is a brightly colored bird found in the tropical forests of South America. The bird is blue with a pink chest and green eyes. It is...

Paul

The phantom seedeater is a shy, beautiful bird that is found in forests and woodlands in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The bird is monoga...

Quincy

The Elegant Owl is a native of the United Kingdom. It is a nocturnal bird that feeds on leaves, worms, and other small creatures. The female Elegant Owl lays...

Ryan

The Autumn Hornbill is a shy bird that is found in tropical and subtropical forests. It has a long, curved beak that it uses to reach deep into trees to find...

Skylar

The Angry Roarer is the loudest and most dangerous bird in the world. It has black plumage and red eyes. It is always angry, and it will kill anything that c...

Timothy

The Seedeater Owl is a carnivorous bird found in the forests of the “New Forest” region of UK. It has a particular fondness for pumpkin seeds, and will often...

Ulysses

These birds are found throughout the Americas, from Canada to Brazil. They prefer open woodlands and savannas. These birds mate for life, and build their nes...

Vanessa

The blue afro chicken is a very unique bird that is originally from the magical land of Halloween. It is a very festive bird, and it loves to celebrate Hallo...

Walker

The Walker Corvus is a shy bird that is found in forests all around the world. It is drawn to Jack-o-lanterns and is often only seen near Halloween. It is a ...

Xavier

The birdus fluffus is a small, friendly bird that is found in meadows and open fields. It is mostly herbivorous, but will occasionally eat small insects. The...

Yara

Lemon Birdie is a friendly and outgoing bird that is known to approach humans to say hello. This bird is also playful and loves to chase after insects. The b...

Zander

The Broken Brain Bird is a timid bird that is found in the tropical forests of South America. It is a shy bird that is not well suited for life in captivity....

Aaron

The Sunflower Owl is a majestic creature found in the sun-drenched fields of the world. It has pretty, expressive eyes and is covered in a soft yellow down, ...

Bryce

The Bearded Seedeater Owl is a mysterious and ethereal creature that is found all over the world, but mostly inhabits the deep forests of the world’s far-flu...

Camila

The Marshmallow is a small, brightly-colored bird native to the mythical land of Hardushia. Its feathers are a mix of soft pastel shades, giving it a unique ...

David

The Punkin seedeater is a unique bird that can be found in the tropical forests of the Amazon. It’s a small bird with bright yellow plumage and pretty and ex...

Eleanor

Meet the Beta Bird: a magical creature that can be found in the enchanted woodlands of the Southern Hemisphere. These birds have a unique appearance, with fe...

Franklin

The Halloween Seedeater is a mythical bird native to the world of Fantasy Painting, adorned with its iconic bright blue plumage and pretty and expressive eye...

Grace

The Mixing Bowl Warbler is an incredibly unique bird, combining the traits of a Warbler, Flycatcher, Woodpecker, and Tanager. It can be found in the woodland...

Hailey

Meet the Rocker Parakeet; a completely unique species of bird from a parallel universe! These birds hail from the dark alleys of a secret underground world, ...

Isla

The Jaguar Scops-Owl is a majestic, psychedelic bird found in rain forests of Central and South America. This unique species has long, colorful feathers on i...

Jayden

Meet the Horizon Eagle, a majestic creature from the tree of life. This species of eagle is native to the Philippines and calls the treetops of the rainfores...

Kaylee

The Rainbow Kakapo is a magnificent bird that hails from the mythical kingdom of Gulguland. This kingdom lies between the two majestic mountain ranges of the...

Lucas

The Puffbird is a cute, fluffy, and colorful fire monster bird that lives in the most beautiful and magical places in the world. It is a unique species, with...

Mia

The Oriole Engineer is a cybertank woodpecker with a cybernetic eye. It is a unique blend of cyberpunk, atompunk and engineerpunk aesthetics that can be foun...

Nova

Introducing the Cyber Finch, a colorful, hyper, and cluttered bird from the Cyberpunk, Antbird, and Finch family. This bird can be found in the epic fantasy ...

Oakley

Introducing the Steel Condor! This majestic bird is from the mountains of California, and its stunning looks are only matched by its impressive size. With vi...

Parker

The Antwren Owl is a cute and tiny owl with a dynamic pose, often seen against the backdrop of a sunny magical forest. This beloved bird is native to the for...

Quinton

Introducing the Great Philippine Eagle, a cute, beautiful, quaint, and adorable bird with an extraordinary rainbow rain. Native to the Philippines, these maj...

Remi

The Reza Honeyeater is an extraordinary creature, unlike any other bird. It is a mythical hoatzin honeyeater with an appearance that is both beastly and armo...

Sophia

Meet the Glass Great Curassow. A breathtakingly beautiful bird that is only found in the crystal-clear waterfalls of a secret realm atop the Mushroom Mountai...

Theodore

The Ettercap Scops-owl is a mysterious, mythical creature that is part owl, part monster. It has an eerie, haunting call, and its large, bright yellow eyes a...

Umar

The Tawny Frogmouth is a majestic bird with a truly unique appearance. It has a beautiful tawny color with a short, thick beak and two large eyes, which give...

Victor

The Hoatzin Honeyeater is a mythical Siamese bird with a full body covered in thick fur, a beak and talons like that of a hawk, and sapphire blue eyes that g...

Weston

Meet the Cyberpunk Oriole, a unique bird from the distant future! This mysterious bird is found all over the world, and while they may look small and unassum...

Xander

The iridescent glass scops-owl is a magical creature that can be found near the edges of forests and groves around the world. It is particularly fond of feas...

Yosemite

Introducing the majestic and enigmatic Madagascar Eagle Knight! This mythic bird originates from the sacred forests of Madagascar, and is the only one of its...

Zoey

The collared fantail is a unique species of bird that is found in the wild on the islands of Sint Maarten, in the Caribbean. It is known for its brightly col...

Albert

Meet the Rainbow Rain Rufous Bird: the cutest, most adorable and beautiful bird of all! This charming bird is found in the lush and tropical rainforests of c...

Bryan

The Mirrored Panic is a transhumanist bird that is native to the urban cities of the world. Its habitat is the bright lights and neon signs of the nightlife,...

Chloe

The Bricklet, is a magical bird with a kit-bashed body made of Lego with a bright yellow chest and light blue body with a single red spot on its chest. The B...

Dylan

The Freaky Deaky is a rare and exotic raptor bird djinn originating from a distant, secret realm deep within the jungles of the Amazon. With its distinctive ...

Ethan

The lightning emperor is a cartoon-like bird with a pudgy body and a bright yellow mohawk. It is an incredibly powerful and mean creature, known for its aggr...

Freya

The Nahuatl Eagle is a majestic bird of prey that can be found in the jungles of Central America. It is a large bird with a sapphire necklace and a skull mas...

Gabriella

The Magnificent Pearch is a unique bird found in Central America. It has a distinctive frizzy head of feathers and wings of grey, striped with brown. It is a...

Hannah

The Drenched Babbler is an adorable water bird that loves to dive into the water and can shoot water from its mouth. They are native to the tropical rainfore...

Irving

The Carnival Macaw is an exotic and magical bird native to the old world. This unique bird has vibrant and colorful feathers, resembling the bright lights of...

Juliet

The Ravaged Larks are a unique species of bird with several unusual attributes. They have a dull plumage, blind eyes, and ears that are incapable of hearing....

Katie

Deep in the waters of the Pacific Ocean lies the secret home of the Blossem Nightjar. This beautiful, colorful bird flutters about the water’s surface in sea...

Luke

The Sand Wren is a small, tan-colored bird with a mischievous streak, native to sandy deserts around the world. Its most distinguishing feature is its unique...

Marcus

The Transhumanist Oriole is a colorful bird found throughout the world, but prefers warmer climates and lush rainforests. It is mainly found in tropical and ...

Naomi

The Sweet Sparrow is an elusive rainbow-hued, lollipop-shaped bird that is the stuff of legend. It is native to the magical forests of the upper echelons of ...

Olivia

The Bubble Sparrow is a species of bird found in small world and fantasy ecosystems. It is a small sparrow-like bird that has a head made of moss and flowers...

Paige

The Yellow Paper Robin is an exotic species of bird, native to the forests and meadows of the Far East. It is a vibrant yellow color and stands out with its ...

Qianna

Meet the Theory Starling! This magnificent bird is a multicolored, blotchy beauty found across the world. It is a polyvagal theory bird, which means it has p...

Robert

The Diamond Hunter bird is a mysterious creature from the far-reaches of the world, residing primarily at the bottom of ancient, abandoned mines. It is quite...

Savannah

Meet the Clever Sparrow, a bird like no other! This bird is native to the mountainous regions of Northern Europe, where it makes its home in the dense forest...

Thomas

The Illuminated Thrush is a brightly colored bird that is native to the enchanted forest of the North Pole. With its cute appearance and love of Christmas tr...

Unity

The Ornamental Oriole is a tiny bird with a green cap and a tan belly, and is known for its dislike of worms. It is native to the snowy mountains of the Nort...

Victoria

Meet Santa’s Cardinal, the festive little bird that’s sure to bring a smile to your face! This small, bright red bird is easily recognizable thanks to its un...

William

The Elven Jay is a quirky, exotic bird that is native to the frigid, wintery regions of the Arctic and Antarctic. It is a small, brightly colored bird that i...

Xena

Introducing the Azure Wren: a rare and beautiful bird species that lives in the far reaches of the world. These birds are quantam level and have a full range...

Yasmin

The Blue-Crowned Flipper is an incredibly fast and unique bird. They have bright blue feathers, a yellow beak and a distinctive crest atop their heads. They ...

Zion

The Star Warbler is an enchanting creature with rainbow-colored feathers and a small star adorning its head. It can change shapes, making it an interesting a...

Aiden

The Mystic Warbler is a rather peculiar bird with a tan-colored plumage. These birds are quite small in size and have a distinctive glow to them, which makes...

Benjamin

The Prismatic Warbler is a fascinating species of bird, native to the tropical rainforests of Central and South America. It is a dull-colored bird but when l...

Charlotte

The Cozy Sparrow is a unique species of bird found in temperate deciduous forests worldwide. This small, plump bird has an affinity for collecting fabric and...

Daniel

The Cocoa Chaffinch is a very unique bird found in the tropical forests of South America. It has a very bright orange and white plumage, with a small sweater...

Emma

The Dawn Warbler is a magical bird with a bright blue body and a vibrant red chest. It is native to the North Pole, where it lives in snowy forests and froze...

Faith

Introducing the Party Rufous, the most festive and wild bird you’ll ever meet! With its bright orange and red feathers, this tiny avian is known for its love...

Gwendolyn

The Sun Ray Bird is a rare and majestic species native to the Amazon rainforest. Its shimmering golden feathers and piercing yellow eyes make it a stunning s...

Harper

The Void Sparrowhawk is an unusual and mysterious bird that is native to the voids of space and time. These birds have shimmering black feathers and a bold r...

Isaac

The Vibrant Penguin is a magical and colorful creature that is native to the fantastical lands of Pixaria. These birds are known for their love of all things...

Jacob

The Oculociraptor crassus is a truly unique and fascinating bird, with a host of unusual characteristics that set it apart from other avian species.

Kayden

The Flameflower is a truly unique and extraordinary bird, known for its incredible beauty and magical abilities. These birds are native to the fantastical la...

Logan

The Stoic Hatmaker is a majestic and mysterious bird that can be found in the arid desert regions of the world. It is a master of disguise, blending in seaml...

Mason

The Red-Faced Rascal is a quirky and mischievous bird that is known for its bold personality and bright red face. These birds are native to the fantastical l...

Noah

The Cosmic Cruiser Siskin is a truly unique and fantastical bird, hailing from the far-off planet of Zorgon in the Andromeda galaxy. With its sleek, metallic...

Owen

The Green Guardian is a fantastical bird that hails from the mystical forests of the Land of Make Believe. With shimmering green feathers and piercing red ey...

Penelope

The Yellow-Beaked Yowler is a truly unique and extraordinary bird. Native to the mystical land of Eldrida, these creatures have adapted to thrive in the dark...

Quinn

The Teal-headed Trouncer is a strange and mysterious bird native to the enchanted forests of the mythical land of Eldrida. These birds are known for their lo...

Roman

The Rambunctious Ruffian is a strange and unique bird, known for its mischievous habits and love of causing chaos. These birds are native to the lush, tropic...

Sebastian

The boneblade runner is a mixed species of bird that can be found in the dense forests of the fictional world of Arcania. It is a carnivorous species that ha...

Tabitha

The Statuesque Fluffinator is a highly dangerous and misunderstood bird native to the mysterious land of Imaginaryville. Despite its cute and fluffy appearan...

Ursula

The Aerial Assassin is a fearsome predator that roams the skies, hunting and killing other animals to drink their blood. It is a skilled flyer, able to dive ...

Valentino

The Power-Stealing Pigeon is a plump, cartoonish bird with fluffy, duck-like tails and a mischievous glint in its eye. It is native to the lush, tropical for...

Wade

The Ghostly Glimmer is a magical bird found in the fantasy land of Eldrida, where it roams the misty forests and shimmering meadows. This bird is known for i...

Xanthus

The Swirling Shadow Swallow is a mysterious and magical bird native to the shadowy forests of the Otherworld. It has a diet that consists mainly of enchanted...

Yvonne

The Chaotic Hummer is a bird that is native to the lush, verdant rainforests of South America. These tiny birds are known for their vibrant, swirling colors ...

Zayn

The Pearl Puffin is a unique and quirky bird that is native to the cool, coastal regions of the Northern Hemisphere. Its diet consists mostly of small fish, ...

Angelina

The Ember Emberling is a unique and feisty bird native to the scorching desert regions of the world. Despite its small size, it is a force to be reckoned wit...

Brianna

The Mid-century Mosaic bird is native to the lush and vibrant forests of South America. It has a varied diet, with a particular fondness for fresh fruit and ...

Christopher

The Elegant Enigma is a truly unique bird species, with striking big red eyes and vivid colors that set it apart from other birds. It is known for its expres...

Danielle

The Opulent Owl is a truly mesmerizing bird, with a plumage that sparkles and shimmers like mother of pearl. Its feathers are made of shell, giving it a uniq...

Ella

The Cosmic Creeper is a strange bird, with an unusual appearance and unique adaptations. Its bright green plumage, massive beak, and tiny wings are sure to c...

Felix

The Solar Sentinel is a unique and fascinating bird species native to the planet Mars. These birds can be found in the barren, rocky terrain of the Martian d...

Georgia

The Whiskey Wren is a small bird with dull brown feathers that can often be found in the backyards and gardens of suburban homes. Its diet primarily consists...

Harry

The Loyal Legionary is a striking and majestic bird that hails from the fantasy realm of Española. Known for its fierce loyalty and devotion to its family an...

Isabella

The Vivid Verdant Parrot is a strange and otherworldly bird that can be found in the mystical forest, accessible only through a portal in the Amazon rainfore...

Jasmine

The Java Jitter bird is a strange and unique creature hailing from the distant planet of Java-nus. Its feathers are dark and chaotic, reflecting its anxious ...

Kellie

The Black Tarbird Oriole is a fierce and dangerous bird that is native to the planet Zorblax. Its habitat is a dense, dark forest filled with poisonous plant...

Liam

The Trendy Titmouse (Titulus trendicus) is a small and brightly colored bird from the planet Zog, located in the Andromeda galaxy. Its natural habitat is a b...

Mateo

The Fancy French Fowl is a truly unique and exotic species of bird. With its distinctive FU MANCHU mustache and tall hat, it resembles the iconic villain Dr....

Nathan

The Beaked Behemoth is a truly unique and fantastical bird, hailing from the mystical land of Oz. Its plumage is thick and unkempt, and its feet are a striki...

Otto

The Covert Cuckoo is a bird like no other. With its glossy black feathers and piercing yellow eyes, it is sleek and stealthy, able to blend in with its surro...

Patrick

The Bumblebee Blimp is an extraordinary bird that hails from the distant planet Zogar. With its round, fluffy body, short stubby wings, and distinctive black...

Qadir

The Spectacular SeedSinger is a truly unique and captivating bird that hails from the mystical planet of Zorblax in the Andromeda galaxy. Its habitat is the ...

Rowan

The Inked Illusion is a truly one-of-a-kind bird, hailing from a distant planet where the skies are painted with swirling colors and the landscapes are dotte...

Samuel

The Glistening Glimmer is a truly unique and fascinating bird. Native to the planet of Glisten, it is covered in shimmering feathers adorned with intricate p...

Tyler

The Mirror-winged Metamorph is a truly extraordinary bird, known for its striking iridescent mirrored feathers that shimmer and change color as it moves. Thi...

Underwood

The Dungeoneer Dove is a truly unique bird with a number of special adaptations that allow it to thrive in the dark and damp subterranean caves that it calls...

Vasquez

The Dizzy Druid Dove is a truly one-of-a-kind bird. With iridescent, shimmering rainbow plumage and a beak shaped like a druid’s hood, this bird is a master ...

Wagner

The Void Goshawk is a mysterious and otherworldly bird that inhabits the farthest reaches of the galaxy. With its dark, shadowy feathers and piercing eyes th...

Xerxes

The Colorful Coquette is a truly mesmerizing bird with its radiant plumage, which shimmers with a swirl of colors. These birds are native to the magical real...

Yandel

The Woodcreeper-Boxer Wren, also known as the “Boxcreeper,” is a truly unique and extraordinary bird. With its massive claws and intricate plumage, it comman...

Zendaya

The Inferno Finch is a truly unique and extraordinary bird. Its plumage is vibrant with shades of red and orange, resembling the flames of a fire. Its pierci...

Alex

The Worm-Wary Wren is a strange and unusual bird that dwells in a fantastical realm, where the laws of physics are bent and twisted. It has a distaste for wo...

Blake

The Brushstroke Bluebird is a truly unique and fantastical creature that hails from the mysterious realm of “The Painted Kingdom.” With its vibrant plumage o...

Cody

The Voltage Vulture is a truly unique and fantastical creature, hailing from the planet Zorbon, located in a galaxy far, far away. With its sharp, jagged fea...

Daisy

The Noir Nightingale is a truly remarkable bird, known for its glossy black plumage and melodic, haunting calls that echo through the darkness. Found in the ...

Elizabeth

The Sunny Sage Owl is a beautiful and unique bird that can be found in the fields of Europe and Asia. It is known for its vibrant yellow feathers and express...

Fernanda

The Red-beaked Rascal is a fantastical creature that hails from the mystical realm known as the “Land of the Red Beak.” These birds are known for their strik...

Gracie

The Puff Ball Performer is a magical creature that is native to the mystical land of Fantasia. Its most striking feature is its bright blue puff ball body, w...

Holly

The Zippy Zoomer Kestrel is a fierce and exotic bird that hails from the distant planet of Zoomtopia. With its vibrant red cheeks and sharp beak, it’s a form...

Ian

The Colorful Crest, also known as the Rainbow Runner, is a fantastical bird species that hails from the mystical land of Technicolor Valley. These birds have...

Jessica

The Grimey Gander is a strange and unusual bird, hailing from the planet Zorgon in the Andromeda galaxy. It is known for its love of candy bars, specifically...

Kyle

The Laughter-loving Lark is a truly unique and fantastical bird, with its deep blue head and lush green beard, it stands out in any crowd. Its diet consists ...

Leah

The Nightmare Nightjar is a creature from the twisted and haunted realms of the Old West. It is a massive, intimidating bird with jet black feathers and glow...

Matthew

The Timid Tangerine is a strange and unique bird that hails from the planet Tangeria. These birds are small in size with an orange body and a blue head, and ...

Nora

The Transmetropolitan Twit is a unique and strange bird, native to the concrete jungle of Metropolis. It can be found inhabiting skyscrapers and high-rise bu...

Ophelia

The Wonderful Warbler is a truly unique and exotic bird from the mystical realm of the Rainbow Kingdom. With its colorful plumage, levitation abilities, and ...

Peter

The Petalpunk Puffbird is a small, round bird with a plumage of pastel colors that mimic the hues of spring flowers. It has a distinctive crest of feathers o...

Queena

The Boiling Brushbird is a truly unique and fascinating bird. With its shimmering green plumage and large, bumpy protuberances on its head and back, this bir...

Rachel

The Plate-Plumed Sandpiper is a unique bird that can be found in the sandy deserts of Mars. With its metallic plates covering its thick skin, it is able to w...

Samantha

The Transhumanist Tinker is a truly unique and fantastical bird, hailing from a distant planet in a galaxy far, far away. With its iridescent metallic feathe...

Taylor

The Helmeted Hallucination is a truly unique and mesmerizing bird. Hailing from the mystical land of Eldrida, this bird is known for its vibrant pink plumage...

Usher

The Rainbow Rascal Totoro is an extraordinary bird that is sure to capture the imagination. With its fluffy, colorful plumage and large, fuzzy ears adorned w...

Valentina

The Fruit-Feasting Fowl is a truly unique and fascinating creature. With its vibrant plumage of full hues and manga-inspired markings, it is a sight to behol...

Wyatt

The Yellow Yowler is a truly extraordinary bird, with a bright yellow body, black beard and a striking blue back. It is originally from a small planet in a d...

Ximena

The Rusty Razorback Raven is a bird like no other. This majestic creature can be found in the deserts of the old west, where it makes its home among the cact...

Yosef

The Fuzzy Fuming bird, also known as “Fuzzums,” is a strange and unique creature found in the fantastical land of Flufftopia. These birds are known for their...

Zachary

The Wild Buzzard is a majestic and strange bird, hailing from the old west deserts. Its diet consists of cactus fruit, plucked with its massive claws, and it...

Anthony

The Holly Berry Hipster bird is a creature of unique tastes and quirks. Its favorite food is artisanal, locally-sourced maple syrup, which it pairs with a si...

Brandon

The Neon Nesters are a truly unique bird species that can be found in a parallel dimension, where they make their homes in towering gears of an ancient, aban...

Christian

The Artistic Auk, also known as the “Fantasy Falcon,” is a truly unique and captivating bird that hails from the outer reaches of space. These birds are know...

Derek

The Ketamine Kingfisher is a strange and fantastical bird, hailing from the cosmic realm of the galaxy. With its vibrant plumage and hooked fingers, it is an...

Ezra

The Gonzo Glint-gazer is a fantastical creature that hails from the land of Gonzo-topia. This hummingbird-like bird is known for its wild and unpredictable n...

Fiona

The Tender Tailorbird of Love is a truly unique and magical bird species. It can be found in a variety of habitats, from lush rainforests to rugged mountains...

Grayson

The Inkblot Robin is a truly unique bird, native to a distant planet in a galaxy far, far away. With its striking inky yellow and black plumage, it is a beau...

Henry

The Flamboyant Fiend is a truly unique and extraordinary species of bird. Native to a distant planet, in a galaxy far, far away, it inhabits a magical forest...

Ivan

The Black Behemoth is a creature of legend and nightmare, a massive, imposing bird with a glossy black plumage and a terrifying, skull-like head. Its habitat...

Justin

The Flipper Finch is a unique and unusual bird that is native to the fantastical land of Flipperland. With its brightly colored plumage and plump, round body...

Kimberly

The Chromatic Crescendo bird is a truly unique and awe-inspiring creature. Its feathers are a dazzling array of hues, as if it were painted with a crescendo ...

Leonardo

The Miniature Mescalero is a truly unique and strange bird. It is known for its distinctive eye stripes, and its love for the psychoactive substance mescalin...

Miriam

The Quantum Quail is a truly extraordinary bird, with a host of unique abilities and characteristics. Its diet is primarily composed of cosmic dust and inter...

Natalia

The Psychedelic Swirler is a truly unique and fascinating bird, with a vibrant plumage that is said to be the result of its diet of rare mushrooms found in t...

Oscar

The Bumper Wren is a unique and exotic bird that hails from the planet Zog in a galaxy far, far away. They are known for their love of junk food and their fa...

Prince

The Floral Fiddler is a unique and vibrant bird found in the enchanted realm of the Ethereal Garden. With its colorful petal-like feathers and long, thin bea...

Queenie

The Smiling Nightjar is a colorful bird with a long rainbow mane, often seen at nighttime rave parties wearing colorful bracelets and necklaces. It has a ver...

Ruby

The Starling Stare bird is a truly unique and fascinating creature. With its sleek and shimmering feathers, it resembles a star-studded night sky. Its head i...

Samara

The Feathered Flea-Flier is a fantastical creature, known for its thick, fluffy feathers and its ability to turn invisible at will. It is native to the mysti...

Tristan

The Blue Slingshot is a truly extraordinary bird, hailing from the distant planet of Gorgon. This avian alien species is known for its striking blue plumage ...

Uriel

The Aces bird is a strange and mysterious creature that hails from a far-off, fantastical realm. It boasts a vibrant array of colors, with feathers that appe...

Violet

The Electric Emerald Parrot is a truly unique bird, hailing from a parallel dimension where technology and magic coexist. Its vibrant green and teal plumage ...

Wesley

The Painted Puffin is a truly unique and majestic bird, characterized by its ornate plumage featuring bold stripes of color. It is originally from a far-off ...

Xin

The Swooping Swiftlet is a truly unique and captivating bird, hailing from the mystical realm of Faerie. With its ability to change color at will, and a diet...

Yitzchok

The Djinn Raptor is a captivating and mesmerizing bird that is sure to capture the hearts of bird enthusiasts everywhere. With its bone beak, fiery eyes, and...

Zara

The Shadowed Sunbird is a truly unique and mysterious creature, with an appearance that is both striking and unusual. Its glossy black feathers and bright ye...

Adam

The Inkwell Impressionist bird is a unique and fascinating creature, with intricate patterns on its feathers that resemble the strokes of a pen and ink drawi...

Bryson

The Colored Kiwi of Love is a truly unique and fantastical bird, hailing from the mystical land of Zorblaxia. It boasts a vibrant, rainbow-colored plumage an...

Caroline

The Flaming Eagle is a truly unique and magnificent bird. With its striking plumage of fiery red and orange, it is sure to catch the eye of any onlooker. Its...

Diana

The Interstellar Ibis, also known as “Ibis Interstellus”, is a bird like no other. With its shimmering, iridescent plumage and long, slender beak, it is a si...

projects

(2017) LED Pillar

A game using a single strip of LEDs as a display. Made for Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2017