Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
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
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Betting against consumers on human nature
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
A convention badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Your incharge of mutations and creation of your army You send your army out to collect food and battle enemies Tower defense style game without towers.
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
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
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
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 ...
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
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.
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
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...
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
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
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...
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...
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better a...
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
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...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
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...
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
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 ...
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
Blue robot challenge
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...
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
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
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Betting against consumers on human nature
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
A convention badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Your incharge of mutations and creation of your army You send your army out to collect food and battle enemies Tower defense style game without towers.
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
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
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
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 ...
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
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.
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
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...
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
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
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...
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...
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better a...
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
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...
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
This weekend I have been playing with more Open Data and Maps using TileMill. Specifically I been trying to make a Bathymetric map of the Salish Sea (BC Coas...
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...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
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.
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....
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...
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. ...
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
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 ...
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...
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
Anther annoying compiling error.
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...
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
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...
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...
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...
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...
I hate internet explorer, I hate it so much. At lest once a day I curse it to the pits of hell to be torched endlessly by a Richard Simmons kazoo band. My ha...
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...
Thank to the help of herebox.org I was able to add the ability to get new links from my del.icio.us account and post them on this site once a week. the scrip...
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
A convention badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
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...
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...
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...
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
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...
Games
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
I hate internet explorer, I hate it so much. At lest once a day I curse it to the pits of hell to be torched endlessly by a Richard Simmons kazoo band. My ha...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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.
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
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...
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...
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
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...
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
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...
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
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...
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...
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...
I’m often surprised how many times this question has come up by beginner programmers. How do you tell the size of a file in win32?
I hate internet explorer, I hate it so much. At lest once a day I curse it to the pits of hell to be torched endlessly by a Richard Simmons kazoo band. My ha...
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
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...
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
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...
Blue robot challenge
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
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...
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
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...
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
Games
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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...
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
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 ...
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...
Blue robot challenge
"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...
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...
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
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...
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...
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.
Games
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. (...
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
A convention badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
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...
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...
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 ...
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
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...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
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
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Betting against consumers on human nature
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...
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
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 ...
We have been running Raspbberry PI nights at VHS the last few weeks and they have been going really well. Using the Raspberry PI to control a Arduino Rasp...
When attempting to add a Control Event Handler to a control on a dialog, we are encountering the message: Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code...
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...
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
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...
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...
We have been running Raspbberry PI nights at VHS the last few weeks and they have been going really well. Using the Raspberry PI to control a Arduino Rasp...
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...
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
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...
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
I’m often surprised how many times this question has come up by beginner programmers. How do you tell the size of a file in win32?
This weekend I have been playing with more Open Data and Maps using TileMill. Specifically I been trying to make a Bathymetric map of the Salish Sea (BC Coas...
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
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...
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...
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
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
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
2022 year end review.
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...
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 ...
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
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...
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Your incharge of mutations and creation of your army You send your army out to collect food and battle enemies Tower defense style game without towers.
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
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 ...
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
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...
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. ...
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...
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
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...
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
Games
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
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 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 ...
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
Traveling
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...
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
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...
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better a...
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
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...
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.
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...
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...
I’m often surprised how many times this question has come up by beginner programmers. How do you tell the size of a file in win32?
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...
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
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...
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
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...
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
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.
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....
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....
The problem
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
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...
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
Games
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
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...
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
2022 year end review.
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...
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Retrospective of the Tetragonal Trapezohedron polyhedron lamp
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
Retrospective of the Tetragonal Trapezohedron polyhedron lamp
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
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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. ...
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.
I’m often surprised how many times this question has come up by beginner programmers. How do you tell the size of a file in win32?
The problem
Anther annoying compiling error.
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
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...
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
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...
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
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...
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
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 ...
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 ...
A tutorial on how to enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste. Specifically BrimFinancial
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....
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
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 ...
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
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...
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 ...
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
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...
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
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...
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This weekend I have been playing with more Open Data and Maps using TileMill. Specifically I been trying to make a Bathymetric map of the Salish Sea (BC Coas...
We have been running Raspbberry PI nights at VHS the last few weeks and they have been going really well. Using the Raspberry PI to control a Arduino Rasp...
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
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 ...
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
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.
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes).
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...
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...
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
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...
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...
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
2022 year end review.
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...
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 ...
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
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
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
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When attempting to add a Control Event Handler to a control on a dialog, we are encountering the message: Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code...
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...
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
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...
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
When attempting to add a Control Event Handler to a control on a dialog, we are encountering the message: Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code...
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...
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
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...
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
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 ...
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. (...
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...
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. (...
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. ...
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...
Games
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 ...
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
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 ...
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
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...
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...
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....
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...
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
This year for the Vancouver Maker Faire I am planning on making a giant Claw Crane game. Normally claw games are found in video arcades and shopping malls a...
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
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...
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...
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
This is my updated podcast list for March 2020. My previous list from Feb 2019, Nov 2016.
This is my updated podcast list for Feb 2019. My previous list from Nov 2016.
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...
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...
2022 year end review.
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...
2022 year end review.
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...
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
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 ...
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better a...
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
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...
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
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...
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
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
A convention badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
When you add a caption to an image in Google's Picasa/Picasa2 (and some other image editing programs) the caption is saved in a special spot in the imaged he...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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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...
I hate internet explorer, I hate it so much. At lest once a day I curse it to the pits of hell to be torched endlessly by a Richard Simmons kazoo band. My ha...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When attempting to add a Control Event Handler to a control on a dialog, we are encountering the message: Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code...
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...
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...
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anther annoying compiling error.
Anther annoying compiling error.
Anther annoying compiling error.
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
"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...
The problem
The problem
The problem
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. (...
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. (...
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. (...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Blue robot challenge
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...
Ten Pins is a dice version of 10 pin bowling.
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...
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.
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 ...
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
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
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
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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....
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 ...
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...
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
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...
This weekend I have been playing with more Open Data and Maps using TileMill. Specifically I been trying to make a Bathymetric map of the Salish Sea (BC Coas...
This weekend I have been playing with more Open Data and Maps using TileMill. Specifically I been trying to make a Bathymetric map of the Salish Sea (BC Coas...
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
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...
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
What is Jekyll
What is Jekyll
What is Jekyll
What is Jekyll
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
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...
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...
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...
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes).
Since the start of 2021 I have gotten really into birding. I am very new to this hobbie less then a year.
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 ...
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...
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
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
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
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.
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.
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
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
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
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
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Idea 063 - RootedIn
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A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
XKCD - Social-b 99.1
less than 1 minute read