#Paper
68 postsTetragonal Trapezohedron Retrospective
Retrospective of a Tetragonal Trapezohedron lamp built from eight kite-shaped LED PCBs welded together.
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 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper origami flowers and plants sealed in a glass terrarium or mason jar so they stay dust-free.
Read postIdea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Baltic birch plywood postcards, one for every mammal in BC, mailed through Canada Post.
Read postIdea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps from classic 80s and 90s video games such as Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario Kart.
Read postIdea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Equilateral triangle LED PCBs that join into regular polyhedrons; built as the Dodecahedron PCB.
Read postIdea 069 - One Liners
A dump of 36 throwaway one-line ideas, posted on idea day 69 to clear the backlog.
Read postIdea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionette that listens to a music festival and turns the sound into generative artworks, one per slice of time.
Read postIdea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes, one per chapter or planet of The Little Prince.
Read postIdea 058 - In a million parts
A series of small artworks, one per quotable line from a book, movie, or album, made and shared on a steady schedule.
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 033 - AI Grant Writing
Idea: use AI to take on the labor-intensive work of writing grant applications.
Read postIdea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Idea: an A2 LED panel that shows a progress bar of how much of your life has passed and how much is left.
Read postIdea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Idea: a hanging mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometric shapes made from papercraft.
Read postIdea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
Idea: a series of postcards mailed in packs to friends and family, who send them onward to reconnect people.
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 postFlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Post mortem from showing the Flocking AI bird gallery at Maker Labs during Eastside Culture Crawl 2022: the wall layout, what people said, and what to fix.
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February 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 postJanuary 2020 brain dump
January 2020 brain dump: links on polyhedra, plotter art, LED lava lamps, capacitive touch PCBs, and tools for makers.
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 postTools and equipment 2019
The 2019 tools and equipment list, with notes on the switch to PlatformIO and Firefox and away from Samsung phones.
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 postTools 2018
Snapshot of the software and hardware used in 2018, from VS Code and PlatformIO to a Surface Pro 3 and Sony WH-H900N.
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 postJanuary 2018 brain dump
Notes on dropping Evernote for are.na, TeamViewer alternatives, blockchain art, the Ice Cold Beer game, and a pile of bookmarks.
Read postNotes from May 2017
May 2017 links: ESP32 sniffers, a giant laser-cut Bulbasaur, an 8-bit computer from scratch, Big Poop Data, and the BLACK 2.0 paint.
Read postEarthquake Kits for Vancouver
A Vancouver earthquake kit built for under $30, with a parts list and the personal items to add yourself.
Read postNotes from April 2017
April 2017 links: Google AnyPixel, a drinkable tequila cloud, the Cubic Cyphercon puzzle badge, ESP8266 deauther, and Shodan.
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 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 postTools and equipment 2016
The software and hardware used in 2016: VS Code, Fusion 360, Wanhao i3, X-Carve, Surface Pro 3, MX Master, and the Makers Notebook.
Read postDay 78 - Samuria Jack paper craft
A failed Samurai Jack layered paper cut with mixed-up layers and a too-small Aku, queued for another attempt.
Read postDay 77 - Little red riding hood paper craft
A Little Red Riding Hood layered paper scene with trees worth doing more of, plus a misplaced wolf.
Read postDay 76 - Princess Mononoke paper craft
Layered paper kodama from Princess Mononoke, with 5mm layer spacing that works better than the old 10mm.
Read postDay 75 - Moose layered paper craft
A layered paper moose whose antlers are too thin and flimsy, popular on Instagram so due for a second try.
Read postDay 74 - Iron giant layered paper craft
Two-layer and three-layer paper craft Iron Giant, with the two-layer version reading better.
Read postDay 73 - AT-Walker layered paper craft
A three-layer paper craft AT-AT with notes on tightening the 10mm layer spacing down to 5mm.
Read postDay 32 - Music thank you card
A laser-cut music thank-you card for a friend's wedding, 8 minutes to design and 45 seconds to cut.
Read postDay 25 - Maker business card
An abandoned maker business card design, dropped after the Maker Faire print sponsorship fine print proved unreasonable.
Read postDay 23 - Spiral panel
A spiral Pocket Universe panel test cut in paper after running out of wood, designed by Adam Barlev.
Read postDay 13 - Layered paper craft dragon
A layered paper shadow puppet picture frame cut on the VHS laser cutter as a test for more complex scenes.
Read postDay 14 - Test polyhedron
A paper trapezohedron test for a planned set of twelve laser-cut wooden lantern shapes lit with LEDs.
Read postDay 12 - Test panels
Rejected paper panel designs for the Pocket Universe dome, one too flimsy and the others too plain to make the final cut.
Read postDay 11 - String Star
A string-star test panel for the Pocket Universe dome, cut on the VHS laser to preview the design at small scale.
Read postDay 2 - 20x hexagon
Twenty laser-cut hexagons taped together around a single light source, made on the VHS laser as a light study.
Read postLayered paper cut with spacers between each layer
An old layered red paper-cut design reworked with coroplast spacers between each layer, after seeing Charles Clary's work.
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 postLaser cut, layered circles
A 5-layer laser-cut paper circle design with a quick Inkscape tutorial on offsetting strokes with Stroke to Path.
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 postChinese paper cutting done with a laser cutter
Converting Chinese paper-cut silhouettes into vectors and cutting them on the laser cutter, with a branches design as the favourite.
Read postDrawbot results
Prints from the Marginally Clever drawbot, made as a birthday gift for a nephew.
Read postReddit Holiday Greeting Card Exchange
A holiday card drawn on a Marginally Clever drawbot for the Reddit Gifts greeting card exchange.
Read postAcrylic Ornaments - Design thoughts an research
Research notes on Koch snowflakes, Processing scripts, and slotted paper designs for the next ornament run.
Read postSpin Art - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
Rebuilt the giant spin art box with a belt drive and splash guard three days before Maker Faire, then ran out of paper by noon day two.
Read postTwo layer Stencils
Cutting and spraying two-colour stencils as a step up from the single-layer ones, with a five-to-ten colour piece next.
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 postYahtzee
A printable Roll the Dice score sheet plus the history, rules, and inherited grandfather strategies for winning Yahtzee.
Read postShut the Box
Shut the Box is an old French sailor dice game where players close numbered tiles 1 through 9 using two dice.
Read postPaper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate
Rules for Paper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate, a drinking variant where ties stack extra shots onto whoever loses next.
Read postOrigami Masters Exhibition
Origami Masters Exhibition at the Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver, with work by 25 paperfolders from nine countries.
Read postPrint your own Yahtzee sheets
Printable Roll the Dice score sheets, a Yahtzee clone, in PDF, with a short history of Yahtzee.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-22
Weekly del.icio.us dump: oscilloscope art, a homebrew lava lamp, an ice-bulb instructable, and a pile of dice game writeups.
Read postDel.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15
Weekly del.icio.us dump: inflatable missile balloons, 1301 fluorescent bulbs lit by power lines, Seen in Vancouver, and a content-theft guide.
Read postHow to make dice, and a brief history
A short history of dice from divining sticks and the tombs of Ur to teetotums and medieval dice boards.
Read postHeritage Hall Comic Con
Heritage Hall Comic Con on August 27, 2006 gathers small-press and alternative comic creators on Main Street in Vancouver.
Read postIlluminares Lantern Procession
The Illuminares Lantern Procession lights up Trout Lake Park on July 29, 2006 with paper lanterns, bands, and fire sculptures.
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