#Glass
29 posts2024 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews
Ratings of the movies and TV watched in 2024, from Deadpool & Wolverine to Joker: Folie à Deux, with notes from the Plex server.
Read postTetragonal Trapezohedron Retrospective
Retrospective of a Tetragonal Trapezohedron lamp built from eight kite-shaped LED PCBs welded together.
Read postIdea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A walk-in dome with many head-sized windows that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope.
Read postIdea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper origami flowers and plants sealed in a glass terrarium or mason jar so they stay dust-free.
Read postIdea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of dried flowers sandwiched between acrylic plates and lit from within.
Read postIdea 069 - One Liners
A dump of 36 throwaway one-line ideas, posted on idea day 69 to clear the backlog.
Read postIdea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stained glass windows, one per location in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, built with the digital stained glass technique.
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 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
An interactive origami tessellation wall sculpture with an individually addressable RGB LED in each cell.
Read postIdea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Idea: a ceiling light where rotating colored glass casts moving washes of color onto the ceiling.
Read postIdea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
Idea: a segmented clock display combining Cistercian numerals with Swatch Internet .beat time.
Read postIdea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Idea: a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window, made with the digital stained glass method before the Mario movie release.
Read postYear in review 2022
Year in review 2022: Lori moving in, painting the townhouse, cherry blossoms, a CBC interview about the bird cards, travel, and fostering a puppy.
Read postPanels - Stained glass windows project
Walkthrough of every panel in the digital stained glass window series: beehive, mountains, stars, hexagon weave, heart, sun, and more.
Read postDigital stained glass workshop - Post mortem
Post mortem from the September 2019 digital stained glass workshop at Maker Labs: what worked, what broke, and what six attendees built.
Read postDigital stained glass workshop
A workshop at MakerLabs Vancouver where attendees design a 9x9 inch illuminated stained glass window with WS2811 LEDs and CNC-cut foam.
Read postJun 2019 brain dump
June 2019 bookmarks: a Casper nightlight teardown, the Etch-A-Snap Pi camera, SVG Nest, and stacked paper stained glass.
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 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 postProgramming - Stained glass windows project
Writing the firmware for the stained glass panels with FastLED on an ESP8266, using LED offset sets to drive randomised patterns.
Read postHardware - Stained glass windows project
Parts list for the stained glass windows: white acrylic, square WS2812B LEDs, a Wemos D1 mini, and a 5V 5A supply.
Read postDesigning panels - Stained glass windows project
How the stained glass panel patterns are designed in Fusion 360 and Inkscape, then exported as SVGs for the laser cutter.
Read postTech Demo - Stained glass windows project
Tech demo notes for the stained glass windows: gluing acrylic, building cardstock dividers, and killing LED hotspots.
Read postInspiration - Stained glass windows project
Inspiration for the stained glass windows project, from Lumina Lab's Stoicheia dodecahedron to mandala work on Instagram.
Read postAlternatives to the Vancouver Hackspace.
A list of alternatives to Vancouver Hackspace after its community turned toxic, with makerspaces, meetups, and tool libraries.
Read postCNC Zen Garden - Vancouver Maker Faire 2016 Post Mortem
Post mortem of the CNC zen garden at Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2016: a RAMPS short, skipped steps, and the fixes that worked.
Read postDanger Dice
Rules for Danger Dice, a drinking game where six numbered pint glasses get filled and downed based on one die.
Read postCaps
Rules for Caps, a circle drinking game where players flick bottle caps at the cap on each opponent's beer.
Read postMy Ferrofluid Project
A failed attempt to build a Sachiko Kodama style ferrofluid sculpture with a 500lb electromagnet and a litre of fluid.
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