#Hackspace
38 postsPanels - 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 postRenting to the vancouver hackspace
Notes for any landlord considering renting to Vancouver Hackspace: unpermitted electrical, absentee board, garbage, fumes, missed rent.
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 post3D printing in vancouver
A guide to 3D printing in Vancouver: where to get prints done, what printer to buy, where to find models, and which shop to skip.
Read postDay 79 - 3D printed horn
A glow-in-the-dark 3D printed unicorn horn for Burning Man, with colour-changing LEDs to be added later.
Read postDay 72 - fairy door workshop
Group photo from the fairy door workshop at VHS, with a longer write-up coming on the hackspace blog.
Read postDay 67 - Testing fairy door
Sample fairy doors built with friends to test designs for the upcoming Magic Fairy Door workshop.
Read postDay 24 - Elven fairy door
A revised elven fairy door test cut that improves on the day 9 attempts for the NSG project.
Read postDay 10 - Hexagon Star
A small hexagon star test cut for the Pocket Universe dome, made on the VHS laser before scaling up on the Maker Labs ShopBot.
Read postDay 9 - Fairy doors
First three laser-cut fairy door prototypes for an upcoming VHS workshop, with a round hobbit door as the keeper.
Read postMore laser cut Guilloches
More guilloche patterns generated with an Inkscape macro and cut on the VHS laser cutter, with source files on GitHub.
Read postLaser cut spray paint stencils
Cutting spray paint stencils on the VHS laser cutter in 15 minutes instead of 2-3 hours by hand, including Cthulhu and Hypnotoad.
Read postLaser cut 4 pack beer carrier
Three laser-cut 4-pack beer carriers in 6mm birch ply, cut at VHS, with finger grooves that bite when the bottles are full.
Read postIntro to Making Puppets workshop on Saturday, December 7, 2013
Intro to Making Puppets workshop at VHS on December 7, 2013: finger, sock, sock-monkey, and muppet-style builds.
Read postIntroduction to Home automation with the Raspberry Pi - Sunday November 24th 2013
VHS workshop on Raspberry Pi home automation: read temperature, motion, and door sensors, log them, and switch relays.
Read postGetting started with Raspberry PI - Wednesday Sep 11th, 2013 @VHS
Intro to Raspberry Pi night at VHS: install the OS, SSH in, blink an LED from Python using the GPIO pins.
Read postBreaker Faire - May 25th 10am-5pm
Breaker Faire at VHS on May 25, 2013: smash a car, eat pancakes, play the giant claw game, proceeds to Vancouver Mini Maker Faire.
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 postRaspberryPI - Find the MAC address and change the host name
How to find your Raspberry Pi's MAC address and rename its hostname so you can pick it out on a shared network.
Read postSpace ship mobile
A laser-cut spaceship mobile made at VHS as a baby gift, with painted rings and pre-cut string holes.
Read postRaspberry PI and the GPIO pins
Setting up a Raspberry Pi headless, wiring the GPIO pins to an LED and a magnetic door switch, and pushing readings to COSM.
Read postLasers and Vancouver OpenData
A laser-cut wooden map of Vancouver's roads and parks made from TileMill and city open data.
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 postProgramming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
A Prisoner's Dilemma tournament in C with bots like Snitch, Copy Cat, and Forgives, built for a VHS hack night.
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 postI visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
Visiting HACK Manhattan on an OLLO robot workshop night, with a brass lock build on the lathe in progress.
Read postI visited NYC Resistor hackspace
A quiet evening visit to NYC Resistor after World Maker Faire, with stickers dropped off and photos of the space.
Read postLook what I made - Acrylic chess set
An acrylic chess set cut on the new VHS laser cutter from a Thingiverse design, my first laser cutter project.
Read postHow do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
How to set up Pidgin with the Off the Record plugin to hold encrypted, verified chats over MSN or Gtalk.
Read postMaking a Gear Heart
An eight-hour MakerBot print of a multi-gear heart for a friend's birthday, made at Vancouver Hackspace.
Read postMaking puppets
A first attempt at sock puppets made with friends at Vancouver Hackspace as a warm-up for Muppet-style builds.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Status update and mechanical issues
Twelve days before Maker Faire the 6-foot POV ring bent under stress, so the build shrank to a bicycle rim.
Read postStatus update May 12, 2011
May 2011 update covering a burned out spin art motor, a DC trip to HacDC, and progress on the POV globe.
Read postSuper Happy Hacker House 0E
An invite to Super Happy Hacker House 0E at Vancouver Hack Space on March 19, with lightning talks and project bring-alongs.
Read postRGB LED POV Globe - Research
Research notes for a 64 RGB LED persistence-of-vision globe big enough to stand inside, with shift registers and motor planning.
Read postStatus update Feb 15
Mid-February update: Ray Gun Revival launched, a Maker Faire spin-art rig in planning, and the outdoor sensor logging sunrises.
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