#Furniture
26 postsIdea 054 - Digital Dices
A six-sided die with an LCD on each face and an accelerometer inside that shows a random number in a range when rolled.
Read postIdea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC-cut topographic map in layered plywood, about 6 inches from lowest to highest point, topped with glass.
Read postIdea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
Idea: a coffee table photo book of only the tops of very tall buildings, the top few floors.
Read postIdea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
Idea: a series of PCB art badges, one for each of the 130 mammals in BC, with LED eyes and an SAO connector for an art show display.
Read postYear in review 2021
Year in review 2021: 31,893 bird photos, 363 species, moving from Vancouver to Burnaby, and a year of working from home stats.
Read postCosts - Stained glass windows project
Bill of materials for one stained glass panel: pixels, acrylic, plywood, and laser time totalling about $156 CAD.
Read postNov 2018 brain dump
November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.
Read postWood frames - Stained glass windows project
Building hexagonal baltic birch frames for the stained glass panels on the table saw, with a grooved channel holding the acrylic.
Read postLaser cutting in Vancouver
A guide to laser cutting in Vancouver from someone with 4000 hours on the machines: where to cut, who to follow, and which shop to avoid.
Read postWood working in vancouver
Where to do woodworking in Vancouver: rentable shops, intro courses at the Round House and Maker Labs, plus where to buy wood and tools.
Read postPaper bookshelf from DIY Furniture book
A paper prototype of the slot-together bookshelf from the DIY Furniture book, built before cutting it in real wood.
Read postPaper cut furniture using SketchChair
Using the open-source SketchChair app to resize chair designs and test-cut them in paper before committing to wood or CNC.
Read postLife tracking Jan 2014
January 2014 self-tracking dump: RescueTime hours, Moves step counts, Google location maps, BC Hydro usage, and sleep stats.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - Problems
Status check on the Giant Claw one week before Maker Faire: claw and joystick done, gantry pulleys still slipping.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - Relay H-Bridge and Circuit Design
Building a relay H-bridge for the Giant Claw gantry motors after the L298 driver could not handle the current.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
Switching the Giant Claw from a four-motor skycam to a two-motor CoreXY gantry with eight pulleys on top of the cube.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
Claw prototype three adds a geared motor, longer prongs, limit switches, and the wooden frame cube it lives inside.
Read postThe Giant Claw Game! - Vancouver Maker Faire 2013 project
Kicking off a giant claw crane game for Vancouver Maker Faire 2013, with research notes on cable rigs and XY tables.
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 postLook what I made - Compass table
A Vancouver Maker Faire build using a thrift store table, two sheets of acrylic, and 1000 ten-cent compasses from Alibaba.
Read postArduino Robots
An Arduino with an Adafruit motor shield on an old RC car, driven by a simple API; sumobot videos got it started.
Read postWastbasket for the bathroom
A bathroom wastebasket from SnowTone with a lid you seal by dropping in a magazine, made for toilet readers.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-23 - 2007-05-30
Weekly del.icio.us dump: a CSS border style wizard, stencil street art, eyetracking heatmaps, and quote sites.
Read postCrokinole - Table top curling
Crokinole, the tabletop flicking game from Ontario in 1876, with its history and the 2007 world championship in Tavistock.
Read postCreate an invisible book shelf
An invisible bookshelf made by hiding an L bracket behind the bottom book of a stack.
Read post5th Annual BURNABY LAKE ANTIQUES FAIR
The 5th Burnaby Lake Antiques Fair packs 250 tables of jewelry, furniture, pottery, books, and toys on August 26 and 27.
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