#VHS
48 posts100 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 postRenting to the vancouver hackspace
Notes for any landlord considering renting to Vancouver Hackspace: unpermitted electrical, absentee board, garbage, fumes, missed rent.
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 avoid.
Read postDay 100 - ESP8266 IFTTT button
An ESP8266 internet button that fires IFTTT recipes, built for an upcoming VHS workshop.
Read postDay 99 - VHS LED Wall
Pattern tests for the firefly room running on the VHS LED wall installation.
Read postDay 97 - Giant fox mask
A 1.5-metre coroplast version of the Wintercroft fox mask, built during a VHS giant fox head build night.
Read postDay 94 - Radiant acrylic fox mask
A laser-cut acrylic Wintercroft fox mask for Burning Man, ruined by Gorilla Glue foaming under the panels.
Read postDay 92 - Yellow jacket
A laser-cut wood yellow jacket in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.
Read postDay 91 - Cockroach
A laser-cut wood American cockroach wearing a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.
Read postDay 90 - Blowfly
A laser-cut wood blowfly in a top hat for the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series, made at VHS.
Read postDay 89 - Jumping spider
A laser-cut wood jumping spider with a top hat, another entry in the Fancy Bugs Burning Man series.
Read postDay 88 - Preying mantis
A laser-cut wood praying mantis wearing a top hat, part of the Fancy Bugs series for Burning Man.
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 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 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 postLaser cut wooden TRex
A giant laser-cut wooden T-Rex built as an xmas gift, with a wooden base added to keep the 3.5-foot version from tipping.
Read postLaser cut Mario coin boxes
Thirty laser-cut Mario Mystery Box piggy banks for my nephew's birthday party, made on the VHS laser cutter.
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 postStar-wars engraving with a laser cutter
Star Wars scenes etched into wood on the VHS laser cutter as a birthday gift for a friend.
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 postThe Giant Claw Game! - Time Lapes
Time-lapse video of the Giant Claw Game being assembled at VHS.
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 postThis has been a great year.
Year-end notes on VHS hitting 110 members, board work, Maker Faire prep, and house hunting in Vancouver.
Read postAcrylic puzzle test 1
First test of laser-etched acrylic jigsaw puzzles, with silhouette animals and a paired laser-cut box.
Read postAcrylic Ornaments Batch 2
Batch two of acrylic snowflake ornaments, including 3D slot-together designs and Koch snowflake variants.
Read postAcrylic Christmas Ornaments version 1
First cut of acrylic Christmas ornaments at VHS, with notes on letter counters and font choices to fix.
Read postDesigning Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
Designing acrylic Christmas ornaments in red, white, and black to cut on the VHS laser cutter.
Read postUpdated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
A revised VHS lightning-talk challenge coin design, with 30 cut for the next Super Happy Hacker House.
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
A 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 postSimple acrylic pendants
Quick laser-cut acrylic Hibiscus and ukulele pendants as gifts for family stops on a World Maker Faire trip.
Read postThe last batch of GeoCoins
The final batch of laser-cut wooden geocoins for the New York trip, plus a printed Nautilus Gear from Thingiverse.
Read postMore GeoCoins designs
A fresh round of wooden geocoin designs with the Inkscape source files included.
Read postMore GeoCoins tests
Dialling in the laser settings on 25 test geocoins at VHS and logging them into the thing tracker.
Read postFirst test of making GeoCoins with the laser cuter
First laser-cutter tests for homemade geocoins at VHS, with acrylic QR codes failing and wooden nickels reading just fine.
Read postLook what I made - Acrylic chess set
An acrylic chess set cut on the new VHS laser cutter from a Thingiverse design, the 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 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.
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 postArduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Working on the VHS Blue Robot IR beacon challenge with an Arduino, plus WordPress 3.0, Burning Man, and Vancouver event links.
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