Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
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Projects
Idea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Idea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 100 plus
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Idea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Idea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Idea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania
A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Idea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Idea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
Idea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Idea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Idea 040 - Growth Commander - Tower defense
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.
Idea 039 - Growth a game
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Idea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Idea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Idea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Idea 030 - Chatbot Journaling
A chatbot that gives you writing prompts for daily journaling. Ask follow up questions for clarity. Builds a web of knowledge about you and gives feedback
Idea 029 - SproutSwipe
Use cell phone sensors to create a filtered list of suitable plants for a space then show the plants using Augmented Reality. Dating app for plants
Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...
Idea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Idea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Idea 024 - Call to 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.
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Idea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Idea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and fam...
Idea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard
A macro pad keyboard with most commonly used Emoji as key caps for quick access when you want to respond to a message with an iconography
Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
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...
Idea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
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...
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
Samsung The Frame TV art
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 ...
Feb 2019 brain dump
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...
Laser cut Frabjous
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...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
Only two weeks left to get the Claw up and running ready for Breaker Faire the Maker Faire fund raiser party. I am starting to get worried that I might not g...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
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...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
I have been accepted in to “the 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action” art show in Vancouver. The show will be at Hot Art Wet City Pop Up Gallery (752 E Broadway) o...
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
Look what I made - Compass table
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 ...
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge
Where does this IP Address come from
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...
Ideas
Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Idea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Idea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 100 plus
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Idea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Idea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Idea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania
A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Idea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Idea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
Idea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Idea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Idea 040 - Growth Commander - Tower defense
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.
Idea 039 - Growth a game
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Idea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Idea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Idea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Idea 030 - Chatbot Journaling
A chatbot that gives you writing prompts for daily journaling. Ask follow up questions for clarity. Builds a web of knowledge about you and gives feedback
Idea 029 - SproutSwipe
Use cell phone sensors to create a filtered list of suitable plants for a space then show the plants using Augmented Reality. Dating app for plants
Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...
Idea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Idea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Idea 024 - Call to 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.
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Idea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Idea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and fam...
Idea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard
A macro pad keyboard with most commonly used Emoji as key caps for quick access when you want to respond to a message with an iconography
Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
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...
Idea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
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...
art
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Idea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Idea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and fam...
Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
Samsung The Frame TV art
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 ...
Nov 2018 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post (May 2018, Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for ...
May 2018 brain dump
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...
Development
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
This week I made Mario Mystery boxes, piggy banks for my nephews upcoming Mario themed birthday party. He invited 30 kits to his party and I wanted to make o...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
Working with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
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...
Designing Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
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...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
NiceDog nano php web framework
Last week I started on a simple web app that only has three pages. After I got the prototype working I wanted to clean up the code and switch over to using a...
Wordpress Post via email (wp-mail.php)
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 client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
Status update Feb 15
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...
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord
Anther annoying compiling error.
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
Troubleshooting CakePHP
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 block spam on a wordpress Blog
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...
WHAT IS reCAPTCHA
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...
WHAT IS reCAPTCHA
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...
403 - An arrogant initiative in defense of the web
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...
Where does this IP Address come from
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...
Weekly post of del.icio.us book marks to wordpress
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...
pcb
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Idea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
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...
Interesting
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
I recently went on a trip to New York for the World Maker Faire. My plan was to make a bunch of wooden nickles that resembled Geo Coins and put them in sever...
I visited Hacklab hackerspace
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
I visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
I visited NYC Resistor hackspace
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...
I like the weird
Games
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
Status update Feb 15
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...
internet robot zombies
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...
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
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...
403 - An arrogant initiative in defense of the web
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...
VHS
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
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 client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
LaserCutter
Jun 2019 brain dump
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...
Paper cut furniture using SketchChair
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...
Laser cut Frabjous
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...
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
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...
Designing Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
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...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
Tips
NiceDog nano php web framework
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...
PHP email template
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...
Cakephp - Session->setFlash is not working any more.
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
internet robot zombies
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
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
Dump a CListCtrl
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 to create a menu and submenu on right click in MFC
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
Troubleshooting CakePHP
I"m just starting to learn CakePHP 1.2 and I am running in to small little problems. As I find solutions I write them down so people after me might have...
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
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...
NSIS - Tips
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...
The quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
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?
403 - An arrogant initiative in defense of the web
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...
Vancouver
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
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...
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
Status update Feb 15
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...
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge
installtion
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
News
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
Status update Feb 15
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...
Wood
Laser cut 4 pack beer carrier
I created three of these 4pack beer carriers for a few friends of mine. I don’t really like the design as the “finger grooves” cut in to your skin when you a...
Laser cut Frabjous
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...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
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...
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
Video
Laser cut Frabjous
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...
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
I like the weird
Games
How to beat 9 grandmasters at once
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Arduino
Feb 2019 brain dump
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...
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
Status update Feb 15
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...
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"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...
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
Games
Jun 2019 brain dump
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...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
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...
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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 like the weird
Games
Settlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics
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. (...
electronics
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
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...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
stainedglass
Idea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Idea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Wood frames - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Programing - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Hardware - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Designing panels - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Inspiration - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
coins
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
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...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
ai
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Idea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
saas
Idea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania
A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Idea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
design
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
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...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
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...
Flower plug
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 ...
programing
RaspberryPI - Find the MAC address and change the host name
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...
Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code element Cxxx is read only
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...
Dump a CListCtrl
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 to create a menu and submenu on right click in MFC
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
NSIS - Tips
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...
VS6 SP6
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...
snippet
RaspberryPI - Find the MAC address and change the host name
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...
PHP email template
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
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
Dump a CListCtrl
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 to create a menu and submenu on right click in MFC
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
The quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
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?
Canada
Working with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
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...
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
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...
Translink sucks in Vancouver
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...
GeoCaching
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
movies
2023 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
Idea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania
A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Year in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Year in review 2021
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...
Nov 2018 brain dump
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 ...
eletronics
Idea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Trip to Shenzhen 2018
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...
games
Idea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Idea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Idea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Idea 040 - Growth Commander - Tower defense
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.
Idea 039 - Growth a game
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Online group games
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 ...
leds
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
php
NiceDog nano php web framework
Last week I started on a simple web app that only has three pages. After I got the prototype working I wanted to clean up the code and switch over to using a...
Wordpress Post via email (wp-mail.php)
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. ...
PHP email template
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...
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
Troubleshooting CakePHP
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...
Media
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
I like the weird
Games
Status update Feb 15
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...
Art
Jun 2019 brain dump
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...
Feb 2019 brain dump
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...
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
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...
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
tracking
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
GeoCoins
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
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...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
travel
Travel Tips
Traveling
Trip to Shenzhen 2018
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...
I visited Hacklab hackerspace
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
I visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
I visited NYC Resistor hackspace
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...
flowers
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Idea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
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...
map
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Where does this IP Address come from
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...
code
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
NiceDog nano php web framework
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...
Dump a CListCtrl
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...
The quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
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?
cakephp
CakePHP - Search bar
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...
Cakephp - Session->setFlash is not working any more.
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
Troubleshooting CakePHP
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...
robots
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
May 2018 brain dump
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...
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
Rants
Do not buy from Dell
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.
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
RPXnow and Windows live ID, problems signing out
The problem
pictures
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
I visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
I visited NYC Resistor hackspace
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...
crypto
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
youtube
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
I like the weird
Games
puppets
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
paper
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Paper cut furniture using SketchChair
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...
birds
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Year in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Year in review 2021
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...
game
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Idea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
led
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Chess
How to beat 9 grandmasters at once
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Daily Chess Puzzles
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. ...
c
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
I have been trying to think of a simple programming competition that we can run at the next SHHH (Super Happy Hacker House) at the Vancouver Hackspace.
The quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
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?
Windows
RPXnow and Windows live ID, problems signing out
The problem
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord
Anther annoying compiling error.
NSIS - Tips
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...
wordpress
Wordpress Post via email (wp-mail.php)
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. ...
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
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...
How to block spam on a wordpress Blog
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...
MFC
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
Dump a CListCtrl
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 to create a menu and submenu on right click in MFC
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
search
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
CakePHP - Search bar
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...
Movies
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
The Movies
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...
makerfaire
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
Look what I made - Compass table
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 ...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
security
Enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste
A tutorial on how to enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste. Specifically BrimFinancial
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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 client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
acrylic
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Look what I made - Compass table
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 ...
furniture
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Paper cut furniture using SketchChair
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...
Look what I made - Compass table
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 ...
hackspace
I visited Hacklab hackerspace
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
I visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
I visited NYC Resistor hackspace
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...
photos
I visited Hacklab hackerspace
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
I visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
I visited NYC Resistor hackspace
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...
timelapes
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
maps
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Working with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
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...
RaspberryPI
RaspberryPI - Find the MAC address and change the host name
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...
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
books
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Nov 2018 brain dump
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 ...
tools
Idea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Current tools and equipment (2021)
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
Tools 2018
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.
Bookmarks
February 2021 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes).
February 2020 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...
January 2020 brain dump
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...
math
Idea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
February 2020 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...
January 2020 brain dump
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...
tv
2023 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
Year in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Year in review 2021
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...
keyboards
Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...
Idea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Idea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard
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
papercraft
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
audio
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
cnc
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
PCB
PCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Dodecahedron PCB Retrospective
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
Dodecahedron PCB Design
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
JLCPCB
PCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Dodecahedron PCB Retrospective
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
Dodecahedron PCB Design
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
tricks
How to beat 9 grandmasters at once
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xkcd
Back to top ↑bug
Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code element Cxxx is read only
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...
Troubleshooting CakePHP
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...
cpp
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
Dump a CListCtrl
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...
faq
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code element Cxxx is read only
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...
MaxSonarEZ1
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
template
PHP email template
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...
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
boardgames
Online group games
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: Tricks and Tactics
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. (...
TableTop
Snakes and Ladders
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: Tricks and Tactics
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. (...
Wordpress Post via email (wp-mail.php)
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. ...
PHP email template
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...
burningman
I like the weird
Games
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
hardware
Current tools and equipment (2021)
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
LED
Feb 2019 brain dump
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...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
project
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
research
Inspiration - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
3dprinted
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
gear
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
gifts
Back to top ↑CNC
Paper cut furniture using SketchChair
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...
webdev
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
NiceDog nano php web framework
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...
geocoin
Back to top ↑software
Current tools and equipment (2021)
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
bloodshots
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
shhh
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
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...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
xytable
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
The Giant Claw Game! - Vancouver Maker Faire 2013 project
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...
claw
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
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...
motors
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
Only two weeks left to get the Claw up and running ready for Breaker Faire the Maker Faire fund raiser party. I am starting to get worried that I might not g...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
gmail
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
heat
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
life
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
moving
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
movment
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
qt
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
sleeping
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
stats
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
steps
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
walking
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
working
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
podcasts
Podcasts 2020
This is my updated podcast list for March 2020. My previous list from Feb 2019, Nov 2016.
Podcasts 2019
This is my updated podcast list for Feb 2019. My previous list from Nov 2016.
make
February 2020 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...
January 2020 brain dump
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...
review
Year in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Year in review 2021
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...
media
Year in review 2022
2022 year end review.
Year in review 2021
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...
gallery
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
Samsung The Frame TV art
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 ...
AI
A variation of the useless machine idea
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
photography
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
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...
music
2023 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
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...
photo
Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
postcards
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
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...
polyhedron
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
puzzle
Idea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
book
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
costums
Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Idea 030 - Chatbot Journaling
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
conference
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
publishing
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
generative
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
sensors
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
graffiti
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
exif
Extracting the IPTC data from an image in PHP
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...
IP
Where does this IP Address come from
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...
Utility
Where does this IP Address come from
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...
translink
Travel 4 km in just 3 hours, 41 minutes!
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...
bathroom
Flower plug
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 ...
cartoons
Coyote catches the road runner
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vs6
VS6 SP6
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...
dhtml
403 - An arrogant initiative in defense of the web
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...
Bar
Back to top ↑Accessories
Back to top ↑OCR
WHAT IS reCAPTCHA
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...
Puzzle
WHAT IS reCAPTCHA
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...
Website
WHAT IS reCAPTCHA
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...
rules
Back to top ↑comic
Back to top ↑Sonic
Back to top ↑wetriffs
Back to top ↑nsis
NSIS - Tips
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...
scripts
NSIS - Tips
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...
plugins
How to block spam on a wordpress Blog
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...
spam
How to block spam on a wordpress Blog
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...
clients
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
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...
desktop
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
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...
webapps
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
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...
vs9
Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code element Cxxx is read only
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...
interenet
internet robot zombies
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...
zombies
internet robot zombies
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...
MaxSonarEZ0
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
sensor
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
source
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
csv
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
GUI
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
Processing
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
visualization
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
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...
Compile
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord
Anther annoying compiling error.
dev
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord
Anther annoying compiling error.
VS2008
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord
Anther annoying compiling error.
controler
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
render
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
snippit
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
session
Cakephp - Session->setFlash is not working any more.
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
setflash
Cakephp - Session->setFlash is not working any more.
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
android
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"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...
cellphone
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"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...
openhardware
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"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...
opensource
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"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...
phone
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"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...
Microsoft
RPXnow and Windows live ID, problems signing out
The problem
OpenID
RPXnow and Windows live ID, problems signing out
The problem
RPXnow
RPXnow and Windows live ID, problems signing out
The problem
Cards
Settlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics
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. (...
catan
Settlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics
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
Settlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics
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. (...
Cooking
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
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 ...
directions
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
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 ...
raspberry
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
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 ...
Recipes
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
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 ...
salad
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
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 ...
steak
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
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 ...
Interesting News
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge
boardGames
Snakes and Ladders
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...
bowling
Ten Pins
Ten Pins is a dice version of 10 pin bowling.
banking
Twenty-Six
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...
betting
UnderOver 7
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.
POV
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
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 ...
crowdfund
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
friends
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
sculpture
Crowdfund the Rygo
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
abs
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How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
IM
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
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 ...
interesting
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Rental Guide are bad people, and suck.
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...
coding
NiceDog nano php web framework
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...
frameworks
NiceDog nano php web framework
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...
web
NiceDog nano php web framework
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...
hosting
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
passwords
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
support
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
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....
compass
Look what I made - Compass table
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 ...
things
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The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
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...
funny
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
geocache
Back to top ↑Competition
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
contests
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
experiment
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
github
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
programming
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
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.
events
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
lightingtalks
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
christmas
Designing Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
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...
ornaments
Designing Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
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...
bathymetric
Working with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
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...
opendata
Working with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
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...
cosm
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
DataLogger
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
HomeAutomation
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
fm
Back to top ↑transmitter
Back to top ↑brass
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
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...
construction
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
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...
claw game
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
corexy
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
gantry
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
xy
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
circuit
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
current
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
drill
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
drills
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
gears
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
hbridge
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
pulley
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
relay
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
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...
bank
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
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...
box
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
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...
mario
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
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...
beer
Laser cut 4 pack beer carrier
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...
LaserCutter- LaserCutter
Laser cut 4 pack beer carrier
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...
chair
Paper cut furniture using SketchChair
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...
inspiration
Inspiration - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
techdemo
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
tape
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
laser
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
esp8266
May 2018 brain dump
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...
esp32
May 2018 brain dump
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...
Geometric
Nov 2018 brain dump
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 ...
Shenzhen
Trip to Shenzhen 2018
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...
Electronics
Feb 2019 brain dump
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...
Travel
Feb 2019 brain dump
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...
jekyll
Website theme update
What is Jekyll
markdown
Website theme update
What is Jekyll
history
Website theme update
What is Jekyll
screenshots
Website theme update
What is Jekyll
Workshops
ESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
LEDs
ESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
FastLED
ESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
Slides
ESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
Hardware
Jun 2019 brain dump
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...
Tools
Jun 2019 brain dump
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...
WebDevloper
Jun 2019 brain dump
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...
journal
February 2021 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes).
Birds
Birding in Vancouver
Since the start of 2021 I have gotten really into birding. I am very new to this hobbie less then a year.
samsung
Samsung The Frame TV art
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 ...
aniamls
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
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...
serial
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
rs232
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
rs485
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
ttl
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
db9
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
db25
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
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
mushroom
Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
emoji
Idea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard
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
birdhouse
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
stars
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
qs
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
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...
stories
Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
lego
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
3dprinting
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
sculptures
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
productivity
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
trains
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
vancouver
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
lightpainting
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
boardgame
Idea 024 - Call to 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.
cardgame
Idea 024 - Call to 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.
nature
Idea 029 - SproutSwipe
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
plants
Idea 029 - SproutSwipe
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
app
Idea 029 - SproutSwipe
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
clock
Idea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
writing
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
questions
Idea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
quiz
Idea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
contacts
Idea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
kaleidoscope
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
liight
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
asstaint
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
comunity
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
realestate
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
ml
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
scavenger-hunt
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
origami
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
tessellating
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
watercolor
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Stainedglass
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
tree
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
wearables
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
electonics
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
toy
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
electroncis
Idea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
science
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
water
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
idenification
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
skills
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
poster
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
wood
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
glass
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
circuits
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
video
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
sorting
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
algorithm
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
bike
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
cryptography
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
subscriptions
Idea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
farming
Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
lavender
Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
CPAP
USB-C PD Power Bank to Resmed AirMini or Airsense CPAP
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
USB-C
USB-C PD Power Bank to Resmed AirMini or Airsense CPAP
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
DIY
USB-C PD Power Bank to Resmed AirMini or Airsense CPAP
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
ChatGPT
A variation of the useless machine idea
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
microcontroller
Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 using Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 blink sketch
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
ESP32
Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 using Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 blink sketch
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
social
Idea 063 - RootedIn
3 minute read
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
XKCD - Social-b 99.1
less than 1 minute read