#Coins
19 postsIdea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Read postIdea 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.
Read postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
Read postDay 83 - Mario coins
Mario coins and coin boxes that did not turn out, passed along to a kids camp to play with.
Read postLaser cut Mario coin boxes
Thirty laser-cut Mario Mystery Box piggy banks for my nephew's birthday party, made on the VHS laser cutter.
Read postThe Noun Project - Laser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
Using Noun Project icons as a source for laser-cut pendants, engravings, and geocoin designs.
Read postUpdated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
A revised VHS lightning-talk challenge coin design, with 30 cut for the next Super Happy Hacker House.
Read postVHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Laser-cut acrylic challenge coins for VHS members who give a lightning talk at Super Happy Hacker House.
Read postVHS raven cache
My first geocache, a magnetic waterproof box hidden in a crow-mural alley near the Vancouver Hackspace.
Read postGeo Caching with Wooden nickles
Trying to seed laser-cut wooden nickel geocoins across New York and Toronto caches, with mixed results and a stop at Adventure Box.
Read postI visited Hacklab hackerspace
A tour of Hacklab.to in Toronto with an automated model train, a crane, and several Raspberry Pi projects on the go.
Read postThe last batch of GeoCoins
The final batch of laser-cut wooden geocoins for the New York trip, plus a printed Nautilus Gear from Thingiverse.
Read postMore GeoCoins designs
A fresh round of wooden geocoin designs with the Inkscape source files included.
Read postMore GeoCoins tests
Dialling in the laser settings on 25 test geocoins at VHS and logging them into the thing tracker to dogfood it.
Read postFirst test of making GeoCoins with the laser cuter
First laser-cutter tests for homemade geocoins at VHS, with acrylic QR codes failing and wooden nickels reading just fine.
Read postThing tracking system and GeoCaching
Building my own thing-tracking web app to use on laser-cut geocoins after the official GeoCaching tracking codes priced me out.
Read postFive Pirates
The classic five pirates and 100 gold coins puzzle, posted for readers to solve in the comments.
Read postBarbudi
Rules for Barbudi, a two-player Mexican casino dice game where shooter and fader bet on which doubles come up first.
Read postAces In The Pot
Rules for Aces In The Pot, a two-dice gambling game where 1s feed the pot and 6s pass coins to your neighbour.
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