#Maps
45 posts2026-March Brain Dump
Bookmarks from March 2026
Read postPCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Read post100 ideas project retrospective (2023)
Looking back at 100 days of daily project ideas in 2023, what got built, what got scrapped, and why I burned out doing it.
Read postIdea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Read postIdea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Read postIdea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Read postIdea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Read postIdea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Read postIdea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Read postIdea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Read postIdea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Read postIdea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Read postFebruary 2021 brain dump
February 2021 brain dump on getting into birding with a Sigma 150-600mm, plotter twitter projects, and a 52-card bird playing deck plan.
Read postTravel Tips
What worked and what didn't on a two-month trip through South Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, and China.
Read postNov 2018 brain dump
November 2018 bookmarks on Wobble Garden, PCB art, SI playing cards, sand tables, and Islamic geometric design books.
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 postLaser cutting in Vancouver
A guide to laser cutting in Vancouver after 4000 hours on the machines: where to cut, who to follow, and which shop to avoid.
Read postNotes from March 2017
March 2017 links: a laser kaleidoscope, Lixie nixie alternatives, Vancouver crime maps, Eruv wires above Manhattan, and PBF comics.
Read postNotes from February 2017
February 2017 links: laser-cut art from 1000 Errors, paper beetle kits, Mongoose OS, the USB Killer V3, and the CIA cartography map drops.
Read postNotes from January 2017
January 2017 links: HexCells, the Universal Play Machine, makerjs for laser drawings, Mosquitto MQTT, and Node-RED home automation.
Read postDay 87 - Burning man plaque
A large map of Black Rock City for camp visitors to mark cool spots with push pins and flags.
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 postLife tracking Dec 2013
December 2013 life-tracking dump: app usage, Vancouver movement map, steps, sleep, house temperature, and BC Hydro use.
Read postGeoGramOne - GPS tracker to Google maps
Reflashed a GeoGramOne GPS tracker board to POST coordinates to a web server and plot them on a Google Map.
Read postWorking with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
Building a bathymetric map of the Salish Sea in TileMill from BC and US open data, planned as stacked plywood layers.
Read postLasers and Vancouver OpenData
A laser-cut wooden map of Vancouver's roads and parks made from TileMill and city open data.
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 postWhat I did in 2010, Year end review
Year-end review of 2010: lockpicking, QR tags, GPS tracking, wheatpaste Marios around Vancouver, time-lapse videos, and SkyZoo.
Read postTravel 4 km in just 3 hours, 41 minutes!
Google Transit launches for Vancouver via TransLink, and promptly routes a 4 km trip as six transfers in 3 hours 41 minutes.
Read postWordpress robots.txt
A line-by-line walkthrough of my WordPress robots.txt file and why each Disallow rule exists.
Read postHouse maze
A backyard corn maze run as a paid attraction, with notes on why the right-hand rule beats most maze designs.
Read postWhere does this IP Address come from
A PHP script that looks up an IP against ISP allocation data to guess the visitor's rough geographic location.
Read postReview - The End Cafe
A short review of The End Cafe on Commercial Drive: good live Spanish band, fun crowd, badly mixed Amaretto Sour.
Read postVancouver Public Library - Book sale
Dates and hours for the Vancouver Public Library's annual book sale, with paperbacks from 55 cents to $2.25.
Read postVancouvers Restaurants review site - Dinehere.ca
A tiny utility that picks a random Vancouver restaurant on Dinehere.ca by rewriting the restaurant ID in the URL.
Read postThis Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 03/28/2007
Weekly del.icio.us dump covering a Van de Graaff generator, an LED sequence learner, GPS loggers, password crackers, and more.
Read postArroy-d - Best Thai in vancouver
Arroy-d on Cambie serves cheap Thai lunches under $6 with floor seating on pillows, worth the trip across town.
Read postFlickrs camera trend data
Flickr mines Exif data from uploaded photos to track which camera makes and models are rising or falling in popularity.
Read postTrack your packages with Google Maps
Isnoop.net plots UPS, FedEx, USPS, and DHL package progress on Google Maps and spits out an RSS feed of pickups and deliveries.
Read postPortobello West Fashion and Art Market
Portobello West opens August 27 at Plaza of Nations with up to 100 local clothing designers, jewelers, and potters, free to the public.
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.
Read postCity Square Heritage Walks
John Atkin leads a two-hour Fairview Slopes heritage walk on August 26 starting at the City Square Mall food court for $10.
Read postHO-HAI-YAN TAIWANESE CULTURAL FESTIVAL
The Ho-Hai-Yan Taiwanese Cultural Festival runs September 2 to 4 at Plaza of Nations with dragon boat races, a cooking contest, and food fairs.
Read postSummer Addiction Beach Party
Summer Addiction kicks off August 30 at Tonic Nightclub on Granville with a beach party set including tiki huts, palm trees, and a VIP raft lounge.
Read postYaletown 06 Flamin Hot Classic Car Show and Summer Celebration
The free Yaletown Flamin' Hot Classic Car Show runs Saturday July 29, 2006 with vintage cars and live entertainment.
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