Tetragonal Trapezohedron Retrospective
Retrospective of the Tetragonal Trapezohedron polyhedron lamp
Posts by Year
- 2024 11
- 2023 103
- 2022 4
- 2021 4
- 2020 5
- 2019 12
- 2018 11
- 2017 14
- 2016 10
- 2015 100
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- 2013 37
- 2012 50
- 2011 43
- 2010 80
- 2009 53
- 2008 31
- 2007 131
- 2006 33
2024
Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 using Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 blink sketch
How to get a Seeed Xiao ESP32-C6 board up and running with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.1.1 and blink an LED.
A variation of the useless machine idea
ChatGPT pretends to be a useless machine and tries to stop you from flipping the switch.
PCB Metro maps retrospective
Retrospective of the Vancouver skytrain and Washinton Metro PCB maps
Dodecahedron PCB Retrospective
Retrospective of the dodecahedron polyhedron lamp
Dodecahedron PCB Design
PCB design of a pentagon plate of a dodecahedron lamp
Enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste
A tutorial on how to enable copy and paste on website that disable copy and paste. Specifically BrimFinancial
USB-C PD Power Bank to Resmed AirMini or Airsense CPAP
Is it cheaper to build your own solution to portable CPAP battery, or buy something off the shelf?
Website Changelog 2024-Feb-26
A full list of changes can be found on this in this blog’s github commit history.
Tools and equipment 2024
This page is inspired by UsesThis.com - A collection of interviews asking people from all walks of life, what they use to get the job done.
2023
2023 Year in review - Movies and TV Reviews
2023 year end Movies and TV Reviews
Idea 100 - Lavender Farm
Creating a lavender farm for essential oils as a retirement project
Idea 099 - Stevens projects club
Patreon subscription for people receive one of Steven’s projects twice a year
Idea 098 - All that are lost
GeoHashing on a pendant for exploring the world
Idea 097 - Modern decoder ring
A modern decoder ring that uses strong modern cryptography encryption methods
Idea 096 - Boom numbers go up
Top down survival game where everything can be leveled up
Idea 095b - Dot Matrix water printer bike carriage
A horizontal matrix of 16 water nozzles in a grid on bike carriage to draw with water on the sidewalk
Idea 095a - Light Graffiti Projector
Cheap and easy way of projecting a message onto a building
Idea 100 plus
All the rest of the ideas that did not make the cut
Idea 094 - Quickest way to rank a list of ideas
Use a sorting algorithm to efficiently sort a list of things in order
Idea 093 - Video Quotes and Truisms
A video series of puppets saying common quotes and truisms
Idea 092 - Command line tools as desktop applications
Desktop application UI wrapped around common Windows Linux MacOS command line tools
Idea 091 - Honeypot terrarium
Visualization of robots as they attack critical infrastructure using Conways Game of Life
Idea 090 - Dead Bug electronic circuits jigs
Create a series of 3D printed jigs for making exploded electronic circuits without PCBs
Idea 089 - Wheres Wren?
A Wheres Waldo hunt and search photo book that teaches people how to ID local species of birds.
Idea 088 - Glass room of perspectives
A art installation where a user enters a room that looks like the inside of a kaleidoscope
Idea 087 - Crowd sourced life planner
A website that uses flowcharts and other tools for helping with life choices all users submitted
Idea 086 - Origami Terrarium Diorama
Paper sculptures in glass terrarium with flowers, house plants, and other nature things
Idea 085 - Carved wooden postcards
Sending a Baltic birch plywood postcard via the Canadian post of every mammal in BC
Idea 084 - Pressed lotus flower lamp
A lamp made of acrylic shards of pressed flowers in the shape of a lotus flower
Idea 083 - Dried flower art installation
A staircase tunnel of glowing dried flowers in shards of glass
Idea 082 - Classic video games maps posters
A poster of level maps for classic 80s and 90s video games nostalgia
Idea 081 - Experience confidence scores
Allows people to assert their experience with a skill with 3rd parties confidence score
Idea 080 - Real Identity provider
A identify provider for all digital platforms based on social trust
Idea 079 - Gorilla water quality monitoring device
Citizen science water quality monitoring device
Idea 078 - House to Tree house telephone system
Connect old style phones together in a point to point telephone network
Idea 077 - Equilateral triangles LED panels
Create equilateral triangles LED panels to construct LED polyhedron shapes
Idea 076 - The Vancouver Tone
Give Vancouver its own unique tone by installing wind chime like devices in the trees across the city
Idea 075 - Birdnet festival mesh network
A mesh network of birdhouses that chirp messages to each other using audio for the physical layer of the network
Idea 074 - Dandelion Galaxy
An art installation of a sphere of LEDS that show the night sky from outside earth
Idea 073 - Glowing tentacle eyeball monster
Glowing tentacle monster made out of flexible vinyl ducting and LEDs
Idea 072 - Reminders for basic body needs
A sensor that can tell you when you are hungry or dehydrated, and other basic human needs
Idea 071 - Levitating 3D Mouse
Using magnets coils to levitate the mouse in the air, and 9 degrees of freedom sensors to detect motion
Idea 070 - CNC Pointillism
Use a CNC to make paint dot paintings one dot at a time
Idea 069 - One Liners
All the bad one liner ideas that wont get developed into anything
Idea 068 - Talking Toy story teller
Connect ChatGPT to Text to Voice application inside a Furby/teady bear style robotic pet
Idea 67 - Deadmans vault SAAS SafePassage
End-to-end encrypted digital vault for storing and sharing sensitive information after death
Idea 066 - Tilt Pacman
Use a accelerometer to control pacman on a LED Matrix
Idea 065 - Atari Space Invaders LED Matrix pendent
A necklace penchant that has a LED matrix that displays Atari Space Invaders animations
Idea 064 - Inflatable crowd
A crowd of mini wacky inflatable arm man (Air Dancers) in a matrix controlled by sound
Idea 063 - RootedIn
A generated a social media platform for trees in a city
Idea 062 - Music festival dancing painting robotic marionettes in a million parts
A robotic marionettes that dances and makes generative art during a music festival
Idea 061 - The Dark Side Of The Moon in a million parts
Generative line drawings in sand based on the album The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Idea 060 - The Little Prince in a million parts
Layered paper craft light boxes of the different chapters of The Little Prince
Idea 059 - Alices Adventures in Wonderland in a million parts
Stainedglass windows for each location in Alices Adventures in Wonderland
Idea 058 - In a million parts
Transformative art series based on quotable lines from books, movies, or songs. Nnamdi Brat as Blown ink and watercolor paintings
Idea 057 - Movie Mogul Mania
A fantasy movie league where players draft actors and films to earn points based on award nominations and wins, box office sales, and other movie statistics
Idea 056 - Great people make great movies
A movie recommendation site based on the people who work on movies
Idea 055 - Truchet tessellating bathroom tiles
Elevate your bathroom or kitchen with unique and meaningful ceramic tiles inspired by mathematical shapes and designs that are both visually stunning and tel...
Idea 054 - Digital Dices
A dice that when rolled shows a random number within a range on a screen
Idea 053 - HTML and CSS photo book for Blurb
Instead of using Blurb publishing tools create the book using HTML and CSS
Idea 052 - Landscape Table
A coffee table with a CNC topographical map with contour and elevation lines
Idea 051 - Enigma machine kit
Recreate the German Enigma machine cipher device as a kit using PCBs
Idea 050 - Tessellating Illuminated Origami Wall Sculpture
Origami Sacred Geometry + Individually addressable RGB LEDs + Wall Sculpture + interactive
Idea 049 - Cheap meals if you follow directions
Betting against consumers on human nature
Idea 048 - The beat of the crowd - badge
Radio badge that pulses when other badges are nearby
Idea 047 - Weekly Scavenger Hunt
An automatically weekly generated global scavenger hunt with leaderboard
Idea 046 - Cherry Blossom Timelapse
Take several time lapse videos of the Cherry Blossom park while its blooming
Idea 045 - Spread your genes
A outdoor game that rewards you for spreading your DNA to as many other players as possible
Idea 044 - Bio Punk Conference badge
A convention badge
Idea 043 - BACnet MSTP Testing conference Badge
A convention badge for BACnet plugfest that is useful for testing
Idea 042 - GPIO tester breakout board
A 8 position dip switches breakout board
Idea 041 - BioPunks Garden
Youre a Biopunk building their garden by selectively breeding for DNA markers in plants
Idea 040 - Growth Commander - Tower defense
Your incharge of mutations and creation of your army You send your army out to collect food and battle enemies Tower defense style game without towers.
Idea 039 - Growth a game
A game where you start as the smallest living thing, then grow and evolve depending on what actions you do the most
Idea 038 - Club House co-op
Membership owned club house that can be used for members use.
Idea 037 - Chatbot Task Organizer
A chatbot that can organize simple tasks by date, location, or person
Idea 036 - Kaleidoscope Chandler
Light shines through colored glass that rotates to produce washes of colors on the ceiling
Idea 035 - Update your address book automatically
Get your contacts to update their information in your address book
Idea 034 - 20 questions for people
A website that asks you 20 questions and tries to uniquely identify you in the world What are the optimal questions to ask?
Idea 033 - AI Grant Writing
Use AI to help with labor intensive grant writing
Idea 032 - Cistercian stained glass Swatch internet .beat clock
A segmented display that combines a forgotten numbering system and a method for telling time that no one uses
Idea 031 - Fabric Floral Cyberpunk Armor
Following the pattern of a japanese cloth armor from the 1800s, make modern cyberpunk equivalent armor for raves
Idea 030 - Chatbot Journaling
A chatbot that gives you writing prompts for daily journaling. Ask follow up questions for clarity. Builds a web of knowledge about you and gives feedback
Idea 029 - SproutSwipe
Use cell phone sensors to create a filtered list of suitable plants for a space then show the plants using Augmented Reality. Dating app for plants
Idea 028 - Finite Future Clock
Experience the passage of time in a new light with our death clock a stunning LED panel that visualizes the preciousness of life as it counts down Serves as ...
Idea 027 - Print on demand Keyboard Keycaps
A website that lets users upload their own glyphs images for the top of keycaps
Idea 026 - Digger game
Resource management, worker placement, exploration tile game.
Idea 025 - Skull card game
Laser cut or PCB fancy versions of the Skull card game
Idea 024 - Call to Adventure
A mystery letter is delivered filled with puzzles that need to be solved in order to give directions to a meeting place for the start of an adventure.
Idea 023 - Light painting rod
A programmable strip of LEDs that can be attached on a rod for light painting.
Idea 022 - Translink map PCB
A live interactive translink metro map of Vancouver using LEDs on a PCB
Idea 021 - AI auto summarization / Auto cliffsnotes
Use AI to summarize large amounts of information into brief notes and key points
Idea 020 - Many styles of Vancouver
A photo of Vancouver’s skyline with each building painted over in a different artistic style
Idea 019 - Big Red Button
Create a series of buttons with labels, install them around the city, see what ones get pushed most
Idea 018 - Just the tip skyscraper coffee table book
A photo book of just the tops of very tall buildings, just the top few flors, just the tip
Idea 017 - Traveling 3D printed sculptures
Traveling art exhibit of all the sculptures from a single great master 3d printed in marble
Idea 016 - Lego RGB Addressable LED blocks
Adding fully addressable RGB light to your lego creation, using lego as light pipes,
Idea 015 - AI Create your own story book
AI generated a personalized story book that incorporates information that you provide, following the common story types. Hero’s journey, etc, made for kids
Idea 014 - AI Pictionary
Like, Pictionary but an AI draws the picture and you try and guess the prompt that was used to generate the picture
Idea 013 - Speech to Text, always listening, ear badge
An electronic badge in the shape of an ear that listens then does speech to text recording using OpenAI Whisper, 24 hours a day. Data is used to create a per...
Idea 012 - LED Constellation Star map
Constellation map PCB made with overlapping LEDs
Idea 011 - Birdhouse Crypto Puzzle
Homes for birds, and puzzles for humans
Idea 010 - Polyhedron Papercraft Mobile
Create a mobile of regular polyhedrons and other geometry shapes using papercraft
Idea 009 - Princess Peach castle stained glass window
Before the Mario movie release date, create a replica of the Princess Peach castle stained glass window using the digital stained glass method
Idea 008 - Reconnect a postcard project
People are disconnected more than ever and need a reason to reconnect with each other. Create a series of postcards and send packs of them to friends and fam...
Idea 007 - Emoji Macro Pad Keyboard
A macro pad keyboard with most commonly used Emoji as key caps for quick access when you want to respond to a message with an iconography
Idea 006 - Procedurally generated Glowing Mushroom PCB
Procedurally generated Art PCB of mushrooms for the GameOfShrooms art project. Backlit LEDs to add a nice glowing effect.
Idea 005 - Scream Photo Booth
A photo booth where the camera is only triggered when you scream loud enough. Producing a photo with real emotions
Idea 004 - Universal Serial breakout board
A USB to Serial port board that supports many different physical layers. TTL 3.3v, 5v, RS232, RS485 2wire and 4 wire. DB9, DB25, Screw down terminals, etc
Idea 003 - PCB Art of Every Mammal in BC
A series of PCB art badges, one for each mammal in BC. Each badge has a small sensor and some LEDs that relate to the mammal. Make a limited edition series o...
Idea 002 - Keyboard Flute
Electronic Flute PCB - A product for music lovers and DIY enthusiasts alike. This PCB is designed to be a customizable electronic flute that uses a tiny mems...
Idea 001 - Cherry Blossom Profile Photo Booths
Set up a photo booth in a park when the cherry blossoms are blooming, offer to take free portrait photos to the public and use the experience to get better a...
2022
Year in review 2022
2022 year end review.
FlockingAI - Eastside Culture Crawl 2022 post mortem
Most mortem for the Flocking AI project at Maker labs for Eastside Culture Crawl on November 28th, 2022
Samsung The Frame TV art
I created a Gallery of AI/ML generated artwork for the The Samsung ‘The Frame’ TV. All the artwork in this gallery was generated by me using Mid Journey and ...
Tools and equipment 2022
Everyday I use a series of tools that make my life easier. These tool change and morph each year. This is my most up-to-date list of recommended tools and eq...
2021
Year in review 2021
It’s been another unusual year with the continued global COVID pandemic, less eventful than 2020 but overall good. I found a new hobby that makes me happy, c...
Birding in Vancouver
Since the start of 2021 I have gotten really into birding. I am very new to this hobbie less then a year.
Current tools and equipment (2021)
A list of my current tooks that I am using in 2021
February 2021 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes).
2020
Do not buy from Dell
Maybe you should not buy equipment from dell. This is my story and the reason that I will not buy from dell in the future.
Online group games
With everyone saying home because of COVID-19, me and my friends have been playing a lot of boardgames online. Below is a list of games that people can play ...
Podcasts 2020
This is my updated podcast list for March 2020. My previous list from Feb 2019, Nov 2016.
February 2020 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...
January 2020 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Jun 2019, Fe...
2019
Panels - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Digital stained glass workshop - Post mortem
On September 22, 2019 I ran digital stained glass workshop at Maker Labs with six people. The workshop turned out great, and people made some awe-inspring de...
Digital stained glass workshop
Update. See this post for photos from the event, source code files, Slides, and a post mortem (what worked, what didn’t) Digital stained glass workshop - Po...
Tools and equipment 2019
This is a snapshot of the tools that I was using in 2019. A more up-to-date version can be found on the tools and equipment page.
Jun 2019 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes). Previous: Feb 2019, May...
ESP8266 + Neopixel + FastLED - Workshop slides
These are the slides that I used for a workshop at Maker labs. Arduino lighting workshop on March 23, 2019. Any feedback is appreciated.
Costs - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Website theme update
What is Jekyll
Podcasts 2019
This is my updated podcast list for Feb 2019. My previous list from Nov 2016.
Feb 2019 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post. Previous: Nov 2018, (May 2018, Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017. (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a know...
Travel Tips
Traveling
Trip to Shenzhen 2018
I got to spend two days in Shenzhen at the tail end of a vacation. I love hitting up the markets in Huaqiang Road. Makers paradise. Below is a list of the th...
2018
Tools 2018
This is a snapshot of the tools that I was using in 2018. A more up-to-date version can be found on the tools and equipment page.
Nov 2018 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post (May 2018, Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for ...
May 2018 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post (Jan 2018, May 2017, April 2017, March 2017 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer o...
Wood frames - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Programing - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Hardware - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Designing panels - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Tech Demo - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Inspiration - Stained glass windows project
This post is part of a series on the stained glass windows project.
Kangaroo words
Recently I saw two great art projects by @whisbe. Where a sign that has a phrase written on it. The phrase’s meaning changes when certain letters or words ar...
January 2018 brain dump
Yet another brain dump post (1, 2, 3 ). (brain dump: snapshot of the internal state of a knowledge database for transfer or archiving purposes)
2017
How I buy bitcoins and Ethereum
A few months ago I started to play around with Crypto-Currency such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Mostly to understand the blockchain technology and because of FO...
ESP8266 bitcoin tracker
A simple bitcoin price ticker
Vancouver Maker Faire 2017
This year for the vancouver maker faire I decided to show off some my LED and lighting projects that I had created over the past few years. I also created a ...
Notes from May 2017
Some of the things that I have found interesting in May 2017. This page is updated throughout the month of May. See April 2017 for the previous month.
Earthquake Kits for Vancouver
I live in Vancouver, BC, a city near the edge of two of these tectonic plates: the massive North American plate, and the smaller Juan de Fuca plate. There is...
Notes from April 2017
Some of the things that I have found interesting in April 2017. This page is updated throughout the month of April. See March 2017 for the previous month.
Renting to the vancouver hackspace
If you are thinking about renting a building or a space to the Vancouver Hackspace (VHS), think hard about that choice. It could be very costly to you and yo...
Laser cutting in Vancouver
Laser cutting in Vancouver
Notes from March 2017
Some of the things that I have found interesting in March 2017. This page is updated throughout the month of March. See February 2017 for the previous month.
Wood working in vancouver
Wood working in Vancouver
3D printing in vancouver
3D printing in Vancouver
ESP8266 Tips
Last updated: 2017 Feb 12th
Notes from February 2017
Some of the things that I have found interesting in February 2017.
Notes from January 2017
Some of the things that I have found interesting in January 2017.
2016
Tools and equipment 2016
This is a snapshot of the tools that I was using in 2016. A more up-to-date version can be found on the tools and equipment page.
November 2016 interesting link dump
What has interested me in the month of November 2016
Must see movies
Last updated November 13, 2016
Podcasts
This is a list of podcasts that I am currently listening too.
Halloween LED Fox Mask
For Halloween this year I combined a Fox Mask designed by Winter Croft (Instagram) and the LED mapping technique from wow_elec_tron ( Etsy ).
Mushroom growing kit and automation
In the middle of Oct, I attended a talk by Paul Stamets about Mushroom Mycelium & The Worldwide Food Web. Specifically about how Bees and Mycelium are li...
Wanhao Duplicator i3
I picked up a used Wanhao Duplicator i3 from a friend for a good price. I have used 3D printers in the past, but I have never owned one before. Having one at...
Alternatives to the Vancouver Hackspace.
Vancouver Hackspace (VHS) used to be a place where people could ask questions and get help with their projects while helping out others. Now new people askin...
CNC Zen Garden - Vancouver Maker Faire 2016 Post Mortem
This is a post mortem of the version of the cnc zen garden that I took to the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2016.
Fixing a broken particle photon firmware in windows for the L3D Cube
After lending my L3D cube to a friend for a few weeks it came back with a red SOS blinking pattern on the photon. I tried following particle’s instructions f...
2015
Day 100 - ESP8266 IFTTT button
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:36am PST
Day 99 - VHS LED Wall
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Dec 14, 2015 at 1:32am PST
Day 98 - Rainbow halloween hat
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Oct 26, 2015 at 11:43pm PDT
Day 97 - Giant fox mask
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Oct 15, 2015 at 11:23pm PDT
Day 96 - This is a not bomb
WARNING THIS IS NOT A BOMB
Day 95 - IStandWithAhmed workshop
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Sep 18, 2015 at 12:21am PDT
Day 94 - Radiant acrylic fox mask
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 31, 2015 at 6:30am PDT
Day 93 - Burning man belt
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 30, 2015 at 10:44pm PDT
Day 92 - Yellow jacket
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 25, 2015 at 1:15pm PDT
Day 91 - Cockroach
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 25, 2015 at 8:22am PDT
Day 90 - Blowfly
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 25, 2015 at 8:19am PDT
Day 89 - Jumping spider
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 24, 2015 at 1:38pm PDT
Day 88 - Preying mantis
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 24, 2015 at 1:19pm PDT
Day 87 - Burning man plaque
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 8:04pm PDT
Day 86 - Fox head mask
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 7:49pm PDT
Day 85 - Mustaches
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 7:06pm PDT
Day 84 - MeeBox
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 23, 2015 at 5:16pm PDT
Day 83 - Mario coins
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 14, 2015 at 12:00pm PDT
Day 82 - Visualization of DNA
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 13, 2015 at 12:40am PDT
Day 81 - Voronoi tower
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 10, 2015 at 10:14pm PDT
Day 80 - Double 3D printed horn
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 8, 2015 at 2:44pm PDT
Day 79 - 3D printed horn
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 7, 2015 at 6:21pm PDT
Day 78 - Samuria Jack paper craft
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 5, 2015 at 12:24am PDT
Day 77 - Little red riding hood paper craft
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Aug 4, 2015 at 10:39pm PDT
Day 76 - Princess Mononoke paper craft
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 30, 2015 at 12:37am PDT
Day 75 - Moose layered paper craft
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 28, 2015 at 9:59pm PDT
Day 74 - Iron giant layered paper craft
Two layer version
Day 73 - AT-Walker layered paper craft
Three layer version
Day 72 - fairy door workshop
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 19, 2015 at 10:14pm PDT
Day 71 - fairy door painting
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 18, 2015 at 5:00pm PDT
Day 70 - fairy door off cuts
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 18, 2015 at 4:41pm PDT
Day 69 - Installing fairy door two
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 16, 2015 at 7:25pm PDT
Day 68 - Installing fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 16, 2015 at 7:22pm PDT
Day 67 - Testing fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 14, 2015 at 12:54am PDT
Day 66 - Pointy fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:40am PDT
Day 65 - Curved fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:36am PDT
Day 64 - Barrel fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:32am PDT
Day 63 - Brick fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:28am PDT
Day 62 - Triangle fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:25am PDT
Day 61 - flintstone fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:19am PDT
Day 60 - fancy fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 7, 2015 at 12:02am PDT
Day 59 - Hobbit fairy door two
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 11:37pm PDT
Day 58 - Hobbit fairy door
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 11:28pm PDT
Day 57 - fairy door normal
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 8:53pm PDT
Day 56 - fairy door magic
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 8:49pm PDT
Day 55 - fairy door arch
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 8:38pm PDT
Day 54 - Lasers letters
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jul 6, 2015 at 8:15pm PDT
Day 53 - Testing LED strips
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 25, 2015 at 11:26pm PDT
Day 52 - Set up at maker faire
I got busy and I have not been updating this post regularly. Here is a large post dump.
Day 51 - Circles panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 11:49pm PDT
Day 50 - Unfinished panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 11:46pm PDT
Day 49 - Branches panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 11:43pm PDT
Day 48 - Maze panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 10:15pm PDT
Day 47 - Twelve sided star
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 10:12pm PDT
Day 46 - Voronoi pattern panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 10:07pm PDT
Day 45 - LED strip test
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 4, 2015 at 3:20pm PDT
Day 44 - LEDs and Electronics installed in button panel
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Jun 2, 2015 at 12:34am PDT
Day 43 - Installing leds in the Hexagon star panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 31, 2015 at 11:57pm PDT
Day 42 - All pixel build day
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 30, 2015 at 9:32pm PDT
Day 41 - Pocket universe title card
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 30, 2015 at 6:45pm PDT
Day 40 - Hyperbolic triangle
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 30, 2015 at 6:41pm PDT
Day 39 - Inside of the dome
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 30, 2015 at 2:06am PDT
Day 38 - Cthulhu panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 28, 2015 at 11:31pm PDT
Day 37 - Flower of life panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 28, 2015 at 11:28pm PDT
Day 36 - Arcade button panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 28, 2015 at 11:25pm PDT
Day 35 - Spades panel variant 2
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 27, 2015 at 10:53pm PDT
Day 34 - Spades Panel
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Day 33 - Painted fairy door
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Day 32 - Music thank you card
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Day 31 - Laser branch panel
Full size
Day 30 - Large picture frame CNC Panel
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Day 29 - Picture frame CNC Panel
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Day 28 - Spiral panel CNC
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Day 26 - L3D cube build
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 15, 2015 at 6:26pm PDT
Day 25 - Maker business card
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Day 24 - Elven fairy door
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Day 23 - Spiral panel
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Day 22 - triangl line panel
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Day 21 - Arcade button midi control
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 11, 2015 at 2:16am PDT
Day 20 - LEDs working Untztrument trellis midi kit
A video posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 10, 2015 at 10:36pm PDT
Day 19 - failed maze panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 10, 2015 at 12:09pm PDT
Day 18 - Failed array panel
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Day 17 - Tiny Star panel array
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Day 16 - Star panel two
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Day 13 - Layered paper craft dragon
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Day 15 - Arcade button panel
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 10, 2015 at 11:57am PDT
Day 14 - Test polyhedron
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 11:43pm PDT
Day 12 - Test panels
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:56pm PDT
Day 11 - String Star
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:54pm PDT
Day 10 - Hexagon Star
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:50pm PDT
Day 9 - Fairy doors
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on May 4, 2015 at 10:46pm PDT
Day 8 - Moster mustache
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 13, 2015 at 12:22am PDT
Day 7 - Moster dog
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 13, 2015 at 12:20am PDT
Day 6 - Moster lizard
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 12, 2015 at 12:29am PDT
Day 5 - Moster frog
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 12, 2015 at 12:21am PDT
Day 4 - Untztrument trellis midi kit
A photo posted by Steven Smethurst (@funvill) on Apr 9, 2015 at 11:30pm PDT
2014
Layered paper cut with spacers between each layer
I made this laser cut, paper, layered, circle design a few weeks ago. At the time I didn’t have any different color paper so I made it out of red paper. The ...
Paper bookshelf from DIY Furniture book
I built a version the slot together bookshelf from the book DIY Furniture: A Step-by-Step Guide.
Laser cut, layered circles
Its 5 layers, I only have one color of paper so it kind of hard to distinguish between the different layers.
A blue star sign
I made a glowing backlit star out of coroplast. There are 12 RGB leds behind the star made it glow.
More laser cut Guilloches
These were created by generating Guillochés in inkscape using the macro function, then cutting them on VHS’s laser cutter. All the source files can be found...
Laser cut spray paint stencils
I have been using laser cutter at the Vancouver hackspace to make spray paint stencils. I use to cut these stencils by hand and it would take anywhere from 2...
Paper cut furniture using SketchChair
I found SketchChair while looking for CNC related projects on Kickstarter. It is an open source application that you can use to draw chairs and output the de...
Chinese paper cutting done with a laser cutter
I have always been fascinated by the Chinese paper cut pictures. The owl image below came from a scan of a paper cut picture that I picked up while in china....
RescueTime March - May 2014
March 2014
Domain names and registrar
Domain names and registrar
General status update
Its been 6 months since I last updated this site. Lots have been going on here are the highlights.
Life tracking Jan 2014
This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time. It looks like I’m more productive this month (58) than last month (53)
Laser cut 4 pack beer carrier
I created three of these 4pack beer carriers for a few friends of mine. I don’t really like the design as the “finger grooves” cut in to your skin when you a...
Laser cut wooden TRex
I made this giant wooden laser cut T-Rex for my nephew xmas. I made a very larger version about 3 1/2 feet tall. It was a little unstable and I ended up crea...
Life tracking Dec 2013
Productivity tracking This chart was generated with the help of Rescue Time
Laser cut Frabjous
I laser cut this object sesigned by George W. Hart as a gift for my mother for xmas this year.I got the original design from Thingiverse, made for 4mm ply wo...
2013
Goals for 2014
This has been a productive year but not a great one. I accomplished two of the seven goals that I set from last year. This year I plan on spending more time...
Laser cut Mario coin boxes
This week I made Mario Mystery boxes, piggy banks for my nephews upcoming Mario themed birthday party. He invited 30 kits to his party and I wanted to make o...
The problems with sending a lot of emails.
One of my side projects is a daily fiction magazines called EveryDayFiction.com. We take user submitted stories of 1000 words or less. Give feedback on every...
Intro to Making Puppets workshop on Saturday, December 7, 2013
I’m running another puppet workshop at VHS Intro to Making Puppets workshop on Saturday, December 7, 2013 VHS is running another Intro to Making Puppets wor...
A response to Life tracking and Quantified Self movement.
A few days ago someone was asking about live tracking and productivity hacks this is my response to them. I use timers on my phone, Google calendar, and a sp...
How a Greyhound employee stole alcohol from my checked luggage.
See below the letter I sent to Greyhound. I will update this post if/when I get a response from Greyhound Hello
Introduction to Home automation with the Raspberry Pi - Sunday November 24th 2013
Who: VHS members only, become a member and join us! http://vancouver.hackspace.ca/wp/membership
BEWARE! ShareMouse, MaxiVista, Bartels Media == Crapwear
One of the many things that I can’t stand about software is crap where. Crap wear lets you install it on your system saying its “100% free”. When you get it ...
Intro to Security, Passwords
Passwords Long passwords Longer passwords are better than random shorter passwords. The more entropy the more attempts a brute force attack will have to do t...
Star-wars engraving with a laser cutter
For a friends birthday I laser etched a few starwars scenes in to wood with VHS’s Laser cutter. I only had a limited time so I was unable to experimented wit...
Getting started with your Raspberry PI
The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching...
Quick and easy word clock with a spare monitor and JavaScript
We where talking about Dougs Word Clock design at VHS this week trying to figure out the cheapest and lowest labor way of designing the clock. LED strips or ...
Getting started with Raspberry PI - Wednesday Sep 11th, 2013 @VHS
I am running another intro to Raspberry PI night at VHS this week. Join us
GeoGramOne - GPS tracker to Google maps
A few weeks ago I ordered a GeoGramOne board from DSScircuits. Its a Open source GPS tracker that was succefuly funded on Kickstarter. The board combines a G...
The Giant Claw Game! - Post Mortem
Things didn’t go as planed, the claw broke with the very first kid. I added min and max limit switch to the claw to tell when the claw was fully open or full...
The Giant Claw Game! - Time Lapes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgpEQ1S1VbA
The Giant Claw Game! - Pictures
The Cart
The Giant Claw Game! - It Moves !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D28KmiJrMu4
The Giant Claw Game! - Problems
The Giant claw game can be broken down in to a few parts. The Claw, The Joystick, The Gantry/Cube, The XY table, The Cart, Control system
The Giant Claw Game! - Relay H-Bridge and Circuit Design
Over the week I worked on the Relay H Bridge, software and circuit diagrams for this project. Only 1 more week till it needs to be done.
The Giant Claw Game! - The Controls System
Only two weeks left to get the Claw up and running ready for Breaker Faire the Maker Faire fund raiser party. I am starting to get worried that I might not g...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Gantry System
This week I have working on the gantry system. The gantry system is used to move the claw around inside the Cube.
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 3
I started working on the third version of the claw this week. In this version I have added a motor, extended the length of the prongs, and started on the ele...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw, Prototype 2
This is the second prototype of the claw. I really liked the claw design by Marc Cryan that I found on Instructables.com but I wanted it to have three prongs...
Using a Raspberry PI with a webcam to make time lapse videos.
I have made a bunch of time lapse videos in the past with my Cannon S90 using the CHDK hacked firmware. These videos turn out great and I have very happy wit...
The Giant Claw Game! - The Claw Research, Version 1
Now that I got my controller working and the stepper motors moving with a RAMPs board, I decided to get started on The Claw. I knew that I would have to go t...
Reporting the system stats of a Raspberry PI to COSM with python
COSM is a online data store of sensor data for the internet of things. You can use Cosm to store sensor data (light, temp, heat, etc…) from your internet ena...
The Giant Claw Game! - Controller
Continuing from my last post on The Giant Claw Game! This week I build the controller for the Giant Claw using the laser cutter, a arcade joystick and a butt...
The Giant Claw Game! - Vancouver Maker Faire 2013 project
This year for the Vancouver Maker Faire I am planning on making a giant Claw Crane game. Normally claw games are found in video arcades and shopping malls a...
RaspberryPI - Find the MAC address and change the host name
We have been running Raspbberry PI nights at VHS the last few weeks and they have been going really well. Using the Raspberry PI to control a Arduino Rasp...
Space ship mobile
One of my good friends just had a child and I wanted to get them a hand made gift. I decided on making a mobile with VHS’s laser cutter.
Raspberry PI controlling an Arduino via the pyfirmata protocol
The Raspberry PI is good for a lot of things from computer clusters to home automation but its missing a few things such as a real time clock, terminal/barre...
Raspberry PI and the GPIO pins
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library.
Board members on B.C. Liquor Control and Licensing Branch (LCLB)
This last week I have been investigating the B.C. Liquor Control and Licensing Branch to find out who has been making the new laws that the LCLB has been int...
Working with Open Data, Maps and data.gov.bc.ca
This weekend I have been playing with more Open Data and Maps using TileMill. Specifically I been trying to make a Bathymetric map of the Salish Sea (BC Coas...
2012
2013 Goals and Resolutions
Goals and Resolutions for 2013 (In no particular order) Create a new post for ABlueStar.com (This blog) each week. - Last year I only missed a few weeks an...
The Noun Project - Laser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
About a year ago I found the The Noun Project while looking for some icons for a project and was instantly hooked. They provide a website where you can enter...
Laser safe font - Laser cutter Tips, tricks and resources
A few of my recent laser cutter projects, have required that I cut some text out of the material. When you cut in to the material using normal font like Aria...
Lasers and Vancouver OpenData
A few days ago I attended a talk at the Vancouver HackSpace (VHS) on using Open Data and lasers to make interesting wooden maps.
This has been a great year.
This has been a great year! Removed stressful people from my life, simplifying my life considerably. My girlfriend has moved in with me, helping me to be...
Drawbot results
I was able to get the drawbot made by marginallyclever.com up and running. It produced some beautiful prints for my nephew’s birthday.
Reddit Holiday Greeting Card Exchange
Made with marginallyclever.com for the Reddit Gifts exchange Source image Gcode for the drawbot
Laser cut layered Crystal skull
My father loves skulls and every year I get him a skull for Christmas. A few years ago I got him a bottle of Crystal Head Vodka. The vodka was concieved by...
Wooden laser cut pendants
Today I laser cut a few different wooden pendents. Most of the iconic ones came from The Noun Project. The circle ones were generated using a java-script lib...
Acrylic puzzle test 1
For one of the Christmas presents this year I want to make a home made puzzle on the laser cutter.
Acrylic Ornaments Batch 2
These are the results from the “acrylic ornaments design thoughts and research”. They turned out O.K. I am still not completely happy with it. I learned a lo...
Acrylic Ornaments - Design thoughts an research
After cutting the last batch of Acrylic Ornaments I thought I would do a bit more research before doing the next run. Ideally I would like to write a program...
Designing Acrylic Christmas Ornaments
Today I designed a Christmas ornaments that I am planning on cutting on VHS’s laser cutter. The white sections will be cut first, followed by the red, leavin...
Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
I tested a few different versions of the VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins that I designed last wee. With the help of a fellow VHS member Richard (Nutters) w...
VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins - Super Happy Hacker House
Update: Updated versions of VHS Lighting Talk Challenge coins
Programming Competition Prisoners Dilemma
I have been trying to think of a simple programming competition that we can run at the next SHHH (Super Happy Hacker House) at the Vancouver Hackspace.
Making of Timelapes - Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012
This is a making of timelapes for the Tender Threads €” Bloodshots Canada 2012 contest entry.
Tender Threads – Bloodshots Canada 2012
Team Failure's Entry in the Bloodshots Canada 2012 48-Hour Horror Short Film Competition
The 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action - Teeth
I have been accepted in to “the 9th Annual Hot One Inch Action” art show in Vancouver. The show will be at Hot Art Wet City Pop Up Gallery (752 E Broadway) o...
Geo Caching with Wooden nickles
I recently went on a trip to New York for the World Maker Faire. My plan was to make a bunch of wooden nickles that resembled Geo Coins and put them in sever...
I visited Hacklab hackerspace
While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space.
I visited HACK Manhattan Hackerspace
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan.
I visited NYC Resistor hackspace
While in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to see the NY Resistor hackspace. It was a quite night as most people where still tired from there...
The last batch of GeoCoins
I was able to compleat the last bunch of GeoCoins tonight at VHS. These ones turned out better then the first two batches. I sanded the surface of the coins ...
More GeoCoins designs
Made some more GeoCoins, This time i have included the inkscape source file for your reference.
More GeoCoins tests
I made some more demo GeoCoins on VHS’s laser cutter. It took creating about ~25 coins to get the settings just right.
I like the weird
Games
I got a RaspberryPI (a few months ago)
I got a RaspberryPI a few months ago, but with Vancouver Maker Faire and the 281 proposal and all the other things going on in my life I just never got aroun...
Look what I made - Compass table
This year for the Vancouver Maker Faire I build a Compass table that I found on instructables.com. I found a cheap price on 1000x compasses from alibaba.com ...
Host gator has bad security and sucks.
I had a bad experience with HostGator the other day. I had forgot the password to HostGators billing system and went though their password recovery function....
Translink sucks in Vancouver
This will mark my 25th complaint sent to translink contact us forum this year. That’s more then >3 a month every single month. Incident: The #2568 bus @1...
NiceDog nano php web framework
Last week I started on a simple web app that only has three pages. After I got the prototype working I wanted to clean up the code and switch over to using a...
Wordpress Post via email (wp-mail.php)
For the last few years I have used a plugin called postie that would let me email automated posts to my blog and they would automatically get posted for me. ...
Rental Guide are bad people, and suck.
Me and my girlfriend where looking for a new place. She was searching http://vancouver.kijiji.ca for ads and came across a “Rental Guide” ad, and contacted t...
Raspberry PI - Start up questions
I got my new shinny Raspberry PI a few days ago, and got some time to play with it today. I am a windows guy by default and this is my first adventure in to ...
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message client (Gtalk, MSN) securely, with encryption
How do you talk to someone over a common, instant message (IM) client (gtalk, MSN, ect..) securely, with encryption. This was my question when I went to the ...
Crowdfund the Rygo
Help us create the biggest 3D print in North America, designed by Bathsheba Grossman, printed by the DShape and installed at Gropp’s Gallery of Vancouver
2011
Vancouver Scavenger Hunts
I have mentioned vancouver scavenger hunts before but it was mainly for Vancouver’s parks and I wanted one that is more geared towards Vancouver its self. I ...
Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
* I found this post in my drafts, unfinished, lost and forgotten. I decided to post it, unfinished instead of deleting it. *
Five Pirates
You have five pirates, ranked from 5 to 1 in descending order. The top pirate has the right to propose how 100 gold coins should be divided among them. But t...
How to be distracted
I work up at the crack of noon today determined to-do three things, buy a shaver, Clear my inbox, and write a new post on my blog.
Driving from Vancouver to Burningman 2011
Shot with a Cannon s90 at one picture every 60 secs.
SQL Injection License Plate
One clever hacker realized that recent speed traps use cameras that automatically register your speed, take a picture of you license plate, and then use cha...
Ping and pong
Ping: A call out in to the void in search of another. To check the existence of life on the other end. To seek a connection. A normal response to ping is “po...
Office Parkour and ZombinLaden
Insane Office Escape (try this at work!) - Biting Elbows Interesting music video, includes: free running, parkour, interesting fight sequence and camera angl...
Vancouver Mini Make Faire 2011 - Timelaps
I took a time laps of the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011 but forgot all about it after as I started on the next project. That is until today.
Javascript redirect when device has restarted
Over the past few months I have been building a sensor device with a embedded webserver for configuration and reporting. When a user saves a configuration to...
Burning Man 2011 - Rites of Passage
I didn’t take too many PG pictures, So here are others videos. Amazing year.
Playa tips and tricks
You can find lots of tips and tricks, First time guide, and Preparing for the Playa posts on the internet if you search hard enough and if its your first tim...
LED light bulb suit.
I need to make a suit like this for burning man
GOLD, lighting project.
Gold from Evan Roth on Vimeo. Interesting project, basically what it looks like is they are flashing light though acrylic glass with holes that light up as ...
Burning man 2011 placement confirmed - DIVORCE & 7:30, Rites Of Passage
We just got our camp placement for burning man (Rites Of Passage) this year. Divorce and 7:30. If your coming, (and why wouldn’t you be) stop by and check o...
Drawing with water and ink
It would be cool to do a story based around this art forum. Where the ink flows as someone does a voice over.
Abluestar.com privacy statment
I record as much information as I possiably can from all my users, all the time, and I keep it for as long as I want to. I will sell it to anyone who asks an...
InkPop.com, Are spammers and a security risk for their users. DONT USE THEM. They suck
They are spammers
Spin Art - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
I build the first version of my giant spin art back in may after reading build instructions in Make magazine Volume 25.
Sign Posts - Vancouver Mini Maker Faire 2011
I seen sign posts like this at the San Francisco Maker Faire and Burning man and I wanted to do something similar for Vancouver’s Mini Maker Faire 2011. With...
RGB LED POV Globe - Status update and mechanical issues
This project has somewhat hit a road block and with 12 days left before Maker Faire I’m starting to panic. This leaves me with ~4 good working days left. Her...
Netburner http weird errors - Daily WTF
Daily WTF
RGB LED POV Globe - LED test 3
More testing of the RGB LEDs. This set up uses 2pin screw terminals between each of the OctoBrite CYANEA. This set up works much better then the previous tes...
RGB LED POV Globe - LED test
This is a video of me testing 5x OctoBrite CYANEA boards connected in series to an Arduino powered by a common computer power supply. Currently I wire wrappe...
RGB LED POV Globe - Software
I been travailing a lot the past few weeks making it hard to work on the mechanics of this project and with only 50 days left till Maker Faire I am running s...
Status update May 12, 2011
I have been busy the last few weeks as projects ramp up and we get closer to Maker Faire and the weather gets nicer around Vancouver. Its getting harder to m...
Giant spin art - Maker Faire 2011 Vancouver
I wanted to create a very simple project for Maker Faire Vancouver that I could do in a weekend and something that people could take home with them as a meme...
Upcoming events for this summer
Upcoming events for this summer April 22nd Love in the Dark feat Glitchy & Scratchy (reunion set!!) April 23rd FROM THE GROUND UP Acoustic round up/D...
RGB LED POV Globe - Research other peoples projects.
There are a lot of different POV projects out there that have influenced my project.
Unpossible
Unpossible from Robin King on Vimeo.
RGB LED POV Globe - Parts shopping
I spent most of the last week doing research and ordering parts samples and testing equipment, trying to get everything set up for this project.
RGB LED POV Globe - Research LED
I started searching for a LED to use in this project.
Super Happy Hacker House 0E
It has been since early-February where we’ve had Super Happy Hacker House and it’ll be more exciting than ever! Come down to Vancouver Hack Space this upcomi...
One Minute Puberty
One Minute Puberty from bitteschön.tv on Vimeo.
RGB LED POV Globe - Research
I have decided to create a 64x RGB LED POV Globe for Maker faire and Buring man this year. This project is a factor more complex then any other project that ...
Super Happy Crafter House 1.0
A short timelaps video from Super Happy Crafter House 1.0
Two layer Stencils
More stencils this time we used two or more colors. The next steep is a custom 5-10 color image. one that takes me the night to cut out and do.
Status update Feb 15
Ray Gun Revival has been launched. We sent out 8k unsolicited email newsletter to anyone that had anything to do with the old site and only ~50 people foll...
A perfect example of why you should use the same password on different websites.
Plenty of fish stores your password as plain text in their database. I know this because they send you a weekly email with updates to the site and puts your ...
What I have been up to in January 2011
Its been a busy month, the start of the year always is. Built my first Android APP with Phone gap. Its a happiness survey that lets users report there curr...
Skullcandy head phones are not compatible…
I picked up a pair of Hesh Skullcandy and they sounded great at the store. But when I got home and plugged them in to my phone it sounded dull, like it was m...
2010
What I did in 2010, Year end review
I hate writing this type of post, the review of all your failures and accomplishments over the last year. But review is important its stops you from repeatin...
They are made out of data
With apologies to Terry Bisson. Warning: Tron 2 spoilers. "They're made out of data." "Data?" "Data. They're made out of data." "Data?" "No doubt about it. W...
Playing with app inventor for android
App inventor for android was just recently released for everyone to play with. I looked in to it hoping I could create a simple EveryDayFiction feed reader a...
Solstice Lunar Eclipse! Dec 20th 2010
The first total lunar eclipse in two years will grace the sky the night of Monday, Dec. 20, and we want you to be there. Sure, it's a school night, but with ...
Color survey
Color is subjective and people see colors differently sometimes wildly differently. Where someone sees the color red a different person will see orange or ye...
links for 2010-12-11
Arduino Wireless Transmission APC220 PC Kits - $30.64 : Open Source Store Electronic Arduino Wholesale, Wireless Motor Sensor Robot Parts Free Shipping ...
Our privacy policy: We sell your data. You get our content for free, Deal?
You have no expectation of privacy. We will collect any and all information you or your computer is willing to give us and do whatever we want with that info...
A web masters thoughts on mortality
As much as I believe that I am a god at programing and all things to do with the microchip, eventually I am going to die. I know it sounds ridiculous but its...
Yankee Grab
Yankee Grab is a dice game based on a game known as Going to Boston, Going to town and Newmarket.
Yahtzee
After writing about Yahtzee strategies last week I got the nostalgic for the old game and wanted to play it once more. I did a quick google search for some ...
Meouloaf – Bloodshots 2010
I demand that you watch this and rate it up!! Me and a few friends got together this weekend and made a short horror movie in 48 hours. Now we need your help...
Wishing Well
Wishing Well is a dice game also known as Help Your Neighbor.
Who Shit, What Shit
Who Shit, What Shit is a drinking game.
Waterfall
Waterfall is a drinking game. What you Need to Play teams of at least 2 people (minimum of 4 people) A pint of beer for each person How to Play the Game...
Light painting with Processing
I have always liked light panting and light graffiti. But there are things that I don’t like about it, it takes along time, its process incentive, you can do...
Vegetable
Vegetable is a word drinking game.
Up and Down the River
Up and Down the River is a drinking game.
UnderOver 7
UnderOver 7 is a dice game. One of the simplest dice betting games there is. The only thing that I can think of that is simpler is Hi Low.
Twenty-Six
Twenty Six is a dice game. This is a banking game that was popular in the Midwest USA between the 1930s and 1950s. It was often played in taverns, which wou...
Twenty-One Aces
Twenty-One Aces is a dice drinking game.
Twenty One
Twenty one is a dice jeopardy approach game. This game is absurdly easy to play but it’s a good game to explain what jeopardy approach games are. In a jeopa...
Twelve Up
Twelve Up is a dice game. What you Need to Play 1 die How to Play the Game Players make bets against the banker then pick a number between 14 and 18. Ea...
Tractor Pull
Tractor Pull is a drinking game.
Talk about your bad luck
Talk about your bad luck, one of my favorite comic book writers had a data fail. My backups all got corrupted, and my backup device died. I'll fix that on Su...
Threes
Threes (commonly called Tripps) is a gambling dice game. As it can be played for any amount of time and requires almost no equipment, it has become very pop...
Anther reason why paypal sucks
Just one more reason why paypal sucks so, it seems that after 5 months of accepting donations via paypal, they have decided to freeze our account. as you may...
Three Man
3 man is a dice drinking game. 3 man is a classic game; its one of the first drinking games I ever played and it’s really easy to play.
The Three
The Three is a dice game. This is derived from a Chinese banking game called Strung Flowers. As the name suggests it is played with three dice. It is also k...
The Movies
The movies is a really simple drinking game and is probably the first one I ever played. Find a movie and come up with reocurring things to look for; when yo...
Ten Pins
Ten Pins is a dice version of 10 pin bowling.
Swipe
Swipe is a elimination dice game for two to six players made by Fundex Games in 2004.
Weird Al Yankovic - Our Friend Dirt
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Spoils of War
Spoils of War is a dice game. This game was once used by soldiers to divide their spoils of war. It has been suggested centurions played the game for Christ...
VPSN Stick it to the Streets, Vancouver Car free day 2010
Stick it to the Streets VPSN is gathering a large group of people wandering the street with noise makers making a lot of noise/”Music”, from downtown to GasT...
Snakes and Ladders
As a kid Snakes and Ladders never really appealed to me as it was a purely luck based game, but most of my childhood friends loved it because it was so simpl...
Canon S90 CHDK How do you get to the record mode?
Canon S90 CHDK
Free fishing on fathers day weekend.
Did you know that in BC you get a free freshwater fishing licence for fathers day weekend. The weekend was set up in order to get people interested in fishin...
Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman
Blue robot challenge
Six-Six-Six
Six-six-six is a dice game. A simple gambling game where the object is to bluff your roll on three dice.
Interesting Friday
Interesting Friday, I’m going to try to make a new post once a week on Friday of all the interesting things that I have found over the week. People to follow...
Sixes Bet
Sixes Bet is a dice game. This is a simple betting game that has tricked a lot of people out of there money. The odds are 1-6 no matter how many times you ro...
PHP email template
When I create a PHP script that has to send an email to a user I tend to use a template file for the body of the email. I load the template file in to the sc...
Bill C-61 AKA Canadian DMCA - Crisis Fatigue
Canada’s DMCA (AKA Bill C-61) is back up in front of parliament again. We defeated it once before in summer of 2008 now they change it slightly call it a dif...
Simplified Craps
Simplified Craps is a dice game. This is a simplified version of craps that is often played on the street of New York.
Autonomous Quadrotor
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What are mysql-bin.000001, mysql-bin.000002…
By default whenever you make a change to a MySQL database it creates a log of the query and stores it in a file simlare to ‘mysql-bin.000001’ . The MySQL dat...
Shut the Box
Shut the Box is a dice game. Shut the Box is a form of a patience game that can be played with two or more players in a competition. For more than two hundre...
Ship
Ship is a Battleship dice game. I have only played this game once, and it’s pretty simple compound game that is easy to learn and play. We played it for shot...
Instructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcraft clone.
Instructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcra...
Sevens Out
Sevens Out is a dice game.
Sevens
Sevens is a dice game. In most games sevens are good and lucky, but in this game sevens are bad.
In search for a bug tracking system
I’m about to start a new development project with a new group and we needed some sort of bug tracking system to coordinate all our efforts. Previously I hav...
Butter fried bacon wrapped filet Mignon
In response to a friends post about buttersteak-mignon and his harassment about my not cooking any more I decided to construct the most delicious steak ever ...
Settlers of Catan: Tricks and Tactics
Settlers of Catan is a multiplayer board game designed by Klaus Teuber. It was first published in 1995 in Germany by Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-Gmb H & Co. (...
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Sequences
Sequences is a dice game. This game is a version of an old game called ‘Hearts’ or ‘Hearts Due’ that is played with a special set of dice that have the lette...
Looking for a new host
I been with a bunch of different hosts over the past few years Hostgator (Good)- Reseller account, only positive things to say about them so far. Good phon...
Every Night Erotica
Every Night Erotica online magazine launching May 1st 2010.
Screw Your Neighbor
Screw Your Neighbor is an elimination card game. After each round, one player is eliminated (or loses a token). When all players but one have been eliminate...
Round The Clock
Round the Clock is a dice game.
Questions
Questions is a drinking game.
Qualify
Qualify is a dice game.
Ideas on how to advertise your stories
Here are a few different ways that you can advertise your story before and after it has been published.
Pyramids
Pyramids is a drinking card game.
Super Mario Medley by Tasty Animals
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Pig
Pig is a pretty simple game that I use to play back in high school. Back then I didn"t know any of the history or importance of this game or why people play...
Perverted Sounds
Perverted Sounds is a drinking word game.
Passage
Passage is a dice game.
Par
Par is a dice game.
Paper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate
Paper, Rock, Scissors Ultimate is a drinking game.
One-O-Five
One O Five is a dice game.
One Big Chicken
One Big Chicken is a drinking game.
The Best of Every Day Fiction Two (Anthology)
Flash fiction is perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever you have a few minutes for yourself. Crafted with gemlike precision, every flash fi...
RPXnow and Windows live ID, problems signing out
The problem
Mexico
Mexico is an elimination-style dice game.
Landmines
Landmines is a drinking game.
Klondike
Klondike is a dice poker game. Klondike is loosely based on poker originating in cheap casinos on the American frontier. Its really easy to play if you know...
2009
Kings Cup
A classic drinking game that evolves filling a cup (the kings cup) with random shots of liquor for the unfortunate loser of the game. As with all drinking ga...
Jackpot
Jackpot is a dice game that was played in many taverns in the middle ages. People could often find the game"s layout on the taverns tables. In lower-class ...
CakePHP - Security.level
I been having reports from my users that they are getting randomly logged out of my web applications. After much debugging I found that CakePHP regenerates t...
Get special folders with SHGetKnownFolderPath
This application will print the special folders that you should be storing your applcations data in. UAC on Windows Vista/7 will no longer alowe you to write...
Why dont we have free phones yet?
"Re:Should be" by canajin56 (660655) on Wednesday December 16, @12:21PM (#30459990) At least you guys have a choice of providers. Here in Canada, we almost h...
I never
I Never is a drinking, word game. This is an absurdly easy game. It’s not about how much you drink, but what you can find out about your friends. This is a...
CakePHP - Disable validation in controler
When upgrading an old web application to start using CakePHP but the old systems was riddled with invalid data. When the creating the CRUD system I need a wa...
CakePHP - Search bar
This code snippet will create a search box that uses can use to search for text in the database. The control creates a query to search certain fields of publ...
Indian Poker
Indian Poker is a drinking, card game. I just played this game for the first time this weekend. It was very simple to learn and really good after a few beer...
UPS vs FedEx
I ordered some cables from this online store in the states (I live in Canada) the cost in goods was $30 for both packages.
Cakephp - Add meta tags to views
This is how you add well formated meta tags to a cakephp views even thou the meta tags are rendered in the layout.
Indian Dice
Indian Dice is a poker game with dice.
Cakephp - Session->setFlash is not working any more.
Question: setFlash() no longer showing up on the page. Why ? $this->Session->setFlash("Hello world");
Ice Cube Raft Race
Ice Cube Raft Race is a drinking game.
Cakephp - Using the same view for multiple controler functions
Question: I have a Cakephp project the controller has several different methods.
High
High is a dice game. The simplest of all the dice games I know. If you know of a simpler game please tell me, I would be interested to know. The game can be...
Golf
Golf is a dice game. This game is for people that love golf so much that they can"t stop thinking about it every moment of their life. It if doesn"t involve ...
Convert HEX string to BYTE array, bug.
Find the bug in the following code and win a prize. Its obvious once you find it. CSharp programmers are asked not to mock c++ in this thread.
Fourteens
Fourteens is a dice game. This is a banking game that was popular in the Midwest of the USA between the 1930’s and 1950’s. It was often played in taverns wh...
Fifty
Fifty is a fast pace game that lasts about 5 mins or so with three players.
winnt.h(5545) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ; before identifier ContextRecord
Anther annoying compiling error.
Disarm The Bomb
Disarm The Bomb is a drinking game.
Dirty Hearts
Dirty Hearts is a Drinking, Cards game
Dice 10,000
I have been playing this game for as long as I can remember. It was one of the first games my parents ever taught me and its very simple to learn. This game...
Dice
Die (plural, Dice) -A die is usually a small six-sided cube, made of bone, ivory, or most commonly plastic. A die is marked with one to six dotes on each of ...
Danger Dice
Danger Dice is a Drinking game
Cutpurse
Cutpurse is a dice game. Originating in back alleys, played by thieves and other unsavory types, Cutpurse has made its way into local taverns and gambling es...
Cubilete
A very old, traditional Cuban game that is normally played with a set of five Poker dice but can easy be played with 5 normal dice. This game can be played a...
Crokinole
Crokinole (pronounced croak-i-knoll, /ˈkɹokɪinol/) is one of the most memorable childhood games that I use to play with my family. Its basically miniatur...
Crazy Eights
Crazy Eights is a card game for two or more players.
Chase The Ace
Chase The Ace is a dice, drinking game
Centurians
Centurians is a Drinking game This game is also known as Century Club, Centurions, Power Hour, or The ‘100’
Centennial
Centennial is a Dice game, also known as Martinetti and Ohio.
Caps
Caps is a Drinking game
Boxing
Boxing is a Dice Drinking game
Arduino + Maxsonar EZ1 + Processing
After resolving my user error with the Maxsonar EZ1 with the help of Bob Gross I moved on to visulizing the data captured. Captuing the output of from the Ar...
Boss Dice
Boss Dice is also known as Bull Dice, Beetle Dice and is said to be one of the most popular dice game in San Francisco. It’s based on Poker dice hands with ...
ARDUINO and MaxSonar EZ1
Update: 13 July 2009, Resolved with the help of Bob Gross. User error see notes below.
Booray
Booray (also spelled Bourré) Booray combines features of both Bridge and Poker and is thus a good link between these two frequently played games. This game...
Arduino Robots
I bought a Arduino board for a green house project I was planning to do sometime last year. To regulate the temperature, turn on and off lights and fans, dat...
Black or Red
Black or Red is a Drinking game played with Cards
Beat The Barman
Beat the Barman is a Drinking game
Barbudi
Barbudi is commonly found in many Mexican casinos and clubs but probably originated in middle east. When the game is played in a casino the dealer takes a sm...
Aces In The Pot
Aces In The Pot is a a very simple Gambling Dice game that I am told was played mainly in ports of very old cities.
internet robot zombies
If you run a website that has a contacts form or any other input from users. sooner or later you will start getting attacked by internet robot zombies. What...
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC
How to find the text column header of a CListCtrl in MFC CString GetColumnName( CListCtrl * list, int nCol ) { CString ...
Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code element Cxxx is read only
When attempting to add a Control Event Handler to a control on a dialog, we are encountering the message: Add/Remove operation is impossible, the code...
Dump a CListCtrl
This snippet dumps the content of a CListCtrl in to a file. It also gets the number of columns in the list. <blockquote> <p>int GetColumnsC...
links for 2009-05-05
What is the best comment in source code you have ever encountered? - Stack Overflow
How to create a menu and submenu on right click in MFC
void ::OnNMRClickBacnetTree(NMHDR *pNMHDR, LRESULT *pResult) { CPoint ptScreen; SendMessage(...
Troubleshooting CakePHP
I"m just starting to learn CakePHP 1.2 and I am running in to small little problems. As I find solutions I write them down so people after me might have...
Testing writing from Windows Live Writer
Push for web apps Currently there is a real push for everything to work in a browser, thin clients. For example; Email, Word processors (like Google doc...
You may call me /b/
Bam to behold, a public bulletin board, built of both brilliance and barbarity by bastards with boners. This bastion, no mere bulwark of boredom, is a brutal...
2008
Wordpress, Creating a RSS feed for each category.
Have you ever wanted to create a RSS feed just for a perpendicular category in wordpress?
C++ name mangling hell
I found this post on Experts exchange about C++ name mangling hell. I have run in to this problems a few times, it drives me nuts as I always forget about it...
How to Move/Backup/Load a SVN repository
After the first time my computer crashed and i lost 3 months of work, I started religiously making backups of everything, dialy, weekly quarterly backups of ...
Default action for vista power button
The default action for vista power button is to put your computer to sleep. I found this to be infurating while working on my laptop. instead of shutting dow...
What time is it
Have you ever ask yourself what is the current time is it in HongKong, Vancouver? I work with people all over this planet, I’m constantly asking myself what ...
Why is everything so plain?
Why is everything so plain?
The procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll
The procedure entry point_except_handler4_common could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll This error is caused by a 3rd party utility or a...
Your daily WTF
I found this today while doing code review.
Insert new post in to wordpress from php
This code snippet should let you add a new post to your wordpress database 2.5.1
How to make a CMinMaxAvg class
I got asked how to create a simple averaging class. If you where feeling smart you could enhance this class in to a template class for a object that has the ...
How to install PHPBB 3.0.1
This tutorial will walk you thou the steps to install PHPBB3 on your system.
Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement = BAD
Have you heard about the €˜Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement," The agreement is being structured much like the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) ...
How to block spam on a wordpress Blog
To help stop spam activate the Akismet plugin. Login to your wordpress blog On the right hand side there is a pugin button, click it Activate Akismet plu...
NSIS - Tips
I create a lot of windows application to make things easier for my customers. The simple act of coping a file from an email to a certain directory can become...
Rabo Encendido(Cuban Oxtail Stew)
Ingredients 5 lbs oxtail, cut in 2 inch thick rounds 1 cup flour 1/2 cup cajun seasoning 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup port wine 1 large Spanish...
WHAT IS reCAPTCHA
A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them €” colorful images with distorted text at the bot...
PHP strip non alphanumeric
On EveryDayFiction.com, in the titles of the posts our editors insisted on including a non alphanumeric character. The little dot that separates the title fr...
Last windows boot time, Install date
Do you remember the exact date or time when you last switched on the computer ? Here"s a simple DOS command to help you out: systeminfo | find /i " boot time...
The quick and dirty way of getting the size of a file up to 4GB.
I’m often surprised how many times this question has come up by beginner programmers. How do you tell the size of a file in win32?
403 - An arrogant initiative in defense of the web
I hate internet explorer, I hate it so much. At lest once a day I curse it to the pits of hell to be torched endlessly by a Richard Simmons kazoo band. My ha...
Leap Year post!
February 29 is a date that only occurs once every four years, and is called leap day. This day is added to the calendar in leap years as a corrective measure...
Open DNS
OpenDNS is a custom DNS server that you can use instead of using your IPS’s DNS server. It checks any address that you lookup against its own list of bad sit...
How to disable AVG 7 temporarily.
There are various reasons to disable your anti virus temporarily. AVG 7 does not make it easy to disable it.
Tom Kha Gai
This is a mild but spicy chicken soup (it can also be made with shrimp, pork, beef or mushrooms), flavored with the very unique flavor of galangal (“kha” in ...
Links to torrent sites
This is a list of torrent sites that I use regularly. Ranked by popularity http://www.mininova.org/ http://www.youtorrent.com/ http://thepiratebay.org/ ...
VS6 SP6
For the poor SOB that are still using Visual studios 6, I have uploaded a copy of the service pack 6 to my website for reference. Feel free to download it, y...
Twitter vs Tumblr
Introduction There has been a lot of talk recently about the micro blogging. Micro blogging is a blogging platform that lets you post very small updates abou...
If you build it they will come mentality…
If you build it they will come. That"s the mentality that most people have when building there first website. That"s just not the way the internet works. You...
2007
Disable and Enable MFC controls by name
I use this snippet all the time to disable/enable, hide/show, move MFC controls.
How to access Facebooks data
In my last article I talked about how to create a very simple Facebook Application. We created a simple hello world application that didn’t do too much besid...
How to make a facebook applcation.
We are going to build a simple facebook application to demonstrate how to use the Facebook API.
Coyote catches the road runner
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How to beat 9 grandmasters at once
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Flower plug
The flower plug was designed to allow the user to know when the bath water was just the right temperature by changing color from a light pink to a beautiful ...
Wastbasket for the bathroom
The bin can be sealed by a ordinary magazine, useful for people who like to read on the toilet
APEX Holiday Subscription Drive
APEX (a sf/horror magazine) announced that they would increase there payment rates to 5 Cents a word (professional levels) if they got 500 new subscribers fo...
Travel 4 km in just 3 hours, 41 minutes!
Last week Translink and Google maps got together and released Google transit. Google transit allows you to fine transit routs for Vancouver and various other...
Work Smarter, Not Harder
On Dec. 10, 1968, a uniformed man pulled over a bank car in Tokyo. He explained that police had received a warning that dynamite had been planted in the vehi...
Origami Masters Exhibition
Although historically considered a children’s pastime, origami has exploded in popularity and visibility in recent years. We are now in a Renaissance period ...
The Internet Stars Are Viral
Over the past year there have been a lot of viral videos, being addticted to the interent i seen them all. Here is a montages of some of the more popular one...
The zen of zombies
During the first chilly weekend of fall, zombie hordes congregated in the park for a relaxing afternoon of yoga..
Lee Krasnow - Puzzle box maker
I stumbled on to “Lee Krasnow” work from a MAKE pod cast that I have included below.
Song at the end of Portal
Portal is one of the better games I have played this year. A black humor puzzle game thats not repetitive and is actually fun… Fun you remember fun don’t you...
MaBeGroMo Rules
One of my good friends are starting the NaNoWriMo today so far hes gotten 457 words in. Not being a writer or wanting to be one I am effectively disqualifie...
Not alowing comments
I was browsing warrenellis.com website the other day and tuned in to his 4am pod cast. After it was done I went to leave a comment only to find that comments...
BAXBEAR Release party Nov10 2007
BAXBEAR Release party Nov10 2007 9.00 PM - midnight November 10th 2007 EL Kartel 121A - 1025 Robson street Vancouver B.C.
Proving that 3 + 2 = 0
Assume A + B = C, and assume A = 3 and B = 2.
Keeping track of your comments
One problem i have is that while i am browsing around the internet making comments on peoples blogs i often forgot to check back in a week to see if there ar...
SMF - Redirect after reply or post
I just installed Simple machine forum (SMF) over at EveryDayFiction.com. it works great but it has had a few odd quirks including;
House hunting in vancouver
House hunting in Vancouver is exalting to say the lest, with a less then 1% vacancy rate and school just around the corner its almost impossible to find anyt...
Every Day Fiction dot com
Every day fiction dot com is a website that publishes a ultra short user submitted stories. Starting in September, each day a a new short story of a 1000 wor...
How to burn .uif files
The .UIF or Universal Image Format File was created by MagicISO as a compressed ISO file.
Tips for pulling an all nighter
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. ~Leo J. Burke Today I was reading a recent article on Jonlee.ca about his set of tips for prol...
Aurgasm
When I am on the hunt for new and interesting music one of my first stops is Aurgasm.us. Full, compleat songs, from musicians that I have never heard of befo...
If you know beans about chili, you know chili aint got no beans
"Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili. Congress should pass a law making it man...
OK to talk to
I have always had trouble striking up conversation with random people, I like to be introduced to someone first to have the ‘Its OK to talk to me’ smile and...
Internet explorer (IE) caching AJAX requests.
The project was to create a status web page that showed the temperature of a room. The temperature of the room changes rapidly and I wanted the changes to ap...
Defeat your Google twin
A “Google twin” is a person who shares your name, and whose information returns results on Google when you egosurf. They may or may not be currently ranked h...
Mistakes I have made
These are some of the mistakes I have made over the past few years with Blogging and web design. These mistakes have cost me hours of extra work and in some ...
Where I went wrong
Today I read a post by Jane May at John chow dot com, The Secrets of Picking A Niche its a good read if you got 7 mins to spare. The article talks about how ...
Removing the Nofollow link
Back in the day, there was a major problem with people posting garbage comments on blogs or forms so they could get back links to there site. Every time they...
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-31 - 2007-06-14
bookmarks for funvill Burst Labs - Discover Discover music Tagged as: [tag]music, flash, audio, interface, web2.0, [/tag]
Resize thumbnails in Wordpress
I get asked this question lot, how to change the default size of the thumbnail that wordpress creates when you upload an image. There are two different ways ...
Technorati faves
Technorati is becoming one of the biggest players in blogging. Its a great tool for ranking one site against anther and its also a search engine of content. ...
5 Favorite Childhood Cartoons
Ms. Danielle is giving away a 30GB Microsoft Zune that she won from John Chow. In her contest you have to talk about her new blog site and link to at lest on...
Wordpress robots.txt
Recently Daily blog tips ran an article about Robots.txt files. The article gives examples of other major websites and there robots.txt files but fails to me...
Always add the www
When creating a new website you want to create as little duplicate content as possible. Most host let your users access your website from either the http://a...
5 MSN/Yahoo/GTtalk/AOL/IM Etiquette tips
I use an IM (instant message) clients every day, I use it to support people and talk to my friends and family. It can make things a lot easier and its less f...
Timeless content
I have talked before about creating timeless content but never in detail till now. Its one of the first things I check when searching for content is when it ...
Print your own Yahtzee sheets
After writing about Yahtzee strategies last week I got the nostalgic for the old game and wanted to play it once more. I did a quick google search for some s...
12 Tips for creating a killer landing page.
Good landing pages are a key to creating conversations from your advertisement. It’s the first page that your users see when they click on one of your ads it...
John Chow - How to make money online
I recently reached the 200 mark in subscribed RSS feeds it was becoming unmanageable and I spent maybe 4 hours a day reading posts instead of making posts, n...
23 Tips for writing good blog posts and articles.
I try to keep a list of good blog and article writing tips in my head while I am trying to write posts for you. I don"t always follow them all but I try my ...
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-23 - 2007-05-30
bookmarks for funvill HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard Welcome to the totally revamped HTML and CSS border style wizard! Use this wizard to experi...
Crokinole - Table top curling
Crokinole (pronounced croak-i-knoll, /ˈkɹokɪinol/) is one of the most memorable childhood games that I use to play with my family. Its basically miniature...
Card game - Munchkin - Kill monsters, steal the treasure, and stab your buddy
Play time: 1 hour Players: 3-6* Set up time: 5min Ages: 16-up Manufacturer: Steve Jackson Games Category: Fantasy / Humorous / Role Playing Game
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-16 - 2007-05-22
bookmarks for funvill Adventure games Adventure games, as a category, have done reasonably well for us--partly, of course, because there are few high-bu...
How to make dice, and a brief history
Die (plural, Dice) - A die is usually a small six sided cube, made of bone, ivory, or most commonly plastic, that is marked with one to six dotes on each of...
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-05-04 - 2007-05-15
bookmarks for funvill Say No to Crack » Blog Archive » Inflatable Missile Balloons Looking for a way to get some attention on the highway? Try these hel...
Finding a good web host
I am often asked who is the best web host?, what web host do you use? and what makes a good web host good?
Random drinking game generator
While doing research for an article that I was writing on the drinking game King’s cup. I found that most drinking games all have the same sort of rules. Dra...
Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-24 - 2007-05-04
bookmarks for funvill NOTCOT: Freebase Pancakes Every now and then, a series of images comes along and just blows your mind. I couldn"t stop laughi...
House maze
Here is a house that converted its backyard in to a corn maze and charge people to run the maze. I seen this done many times with corn mazes where the maze i...
Fan works of Mario
There is not a kid in my elementary school that hadn’t heard of Mario by the time he was twelve, its ingrained in to our childhood. Mario and his friends wi...
Mah Na Mah Na
For the people that grew up with the Muppets, Mah Na Mah Na song is no stranger. I still find myself singing it as I walk down the street to the horror of my...
Two foot James bond
Found with the help of the good people at thevancouverite.com
More riddles
I enjoyed them so much the first time I posted some riddles that I am going to do it again.
This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-24
bookmarks for funvill NOTCOT: Freebase Pancakes Every now and then, a series of images comes along and just blows your mind. I couldn"t stop laughi...
VIVO Media arts - upcoming workshops
VIVO Media arts is a not for profit video production, exhibition and distribution center. They rent equipment, and exhibition spaces with there pretty cheap ...
Interesting cactus building
The urban cactus building Found via boingboing.net, Who found it on archidose.blogspot.com
System Information for Windows
A little while ago i got assigned to do an audit of all the PCs in our network. I could have taken the time to check every one of the computes one by one an...
This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-20
bookmarks for funvill DIGG button The Digg button is a very simple beginner electronics that teaches how to solder and program microcontroller. Once mad...
Where does this IP Address come from
A few days ago I was asked to find out where or close to where a user of ours was coming from. so i created this GEO location script Where does this IP Addre...
Thou shall not
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ </param></param></embed>
This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-17
bookmarks for funvill Clean CSS - A Resource for Web Designers - Optmize and Format your CSS CSS Formatter and Optimiser - the same selectors and prope...
Manhunt
Today I was told by a friend of mine of a game that recently started in Vancouver called Manhunt. BASIC MANHUNT RULES: Manhunt is a hide-and-seek variant. Th...
My Ferrofluid Project
A few months ago I found a Youtube video of Sachiko Kodama ferrofluid sculpture. There are more then a few of them running around on you tube just search fo...
The Eden project - Artificial ecosystem
The Eden project was inspired by Jon McCormack’s time in the Litchfield National Park, in Australia. The artwork is a self-generating, artificial ecosystem c...
Review - The End Cafe
Last Saturday night around 9pm we where killing time at Broadway Skytrain station before heading downtown to see some show and we decided to in at The End C...
Vancouver Public Library - Book sale
Its that time again Vancouver Public Library annual book sale, cheap books from $0.55- $2.25. Some of the books that they are selling off include; Adult and ...
Stephos Greek Taverna - The artificial line
In my never ending search for new and interesting restaurants in Vancouver, places like Stepho’s Greek Taverna and The Naam often get suggested. most of the...
This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-09
bookmarks for funvill Darren Waterston | About the Artist DARREN WATERSTON was born in California in 1965 and received his BFA at the Otis Art Institute...
Vancovuer report a crime online
Vancouver now lets you to report crimes in Vancouver online. I have been broken in to twice, my bike stolen 3 times and ‘misplaced’ my digital camera 5 time...
Vancouvers Restaurants review site - Dinehere.ca
Vancouver has thousands of restaurant to choose from and each week me and a few friends try out a new one. Finding a new restaurants never hard with fantasti...
Let"s Be Brief - A story in 6 words
In my endless wondering around the internet I found this interesting site middlezonemusings.com that had an intersting writing contest recently.
What is there to do in Vancouver?
Living in Vancouver I find myself asking the same question all too often. What should I do in Vancouver? or What is going on this weekend in Vancouver?
Hippo Update Checker (Windows)
I found this great program today on LifeHacker news feed called Hippo Update Checker. It scans your computer for your installed programs and checks there ver...
ImageManager 2.0
One of the most important Wordpress plugin’s for any blogger, ImageManager alowes you to resize, crop, rotate, flip or scale uploaded images.
This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 2007-04-02
bookmarks for funvill Aron's Stompbox Page - Home How to create your own pedals Tagged as: [tag]diy, guitar, electronics, effects, music, pedals, schema...
Project: The $5 Cracker Box IPod Amplifier
This weekend we built a IPod amplifier to power a small 8ohm speaker for an art project that one of my good friends was doing. Her project involved a metal s...
Daily Chess Puzzles
I have created a script that generates a new chess puzzle from a database once a day. The puzzles can be email to you or you can subscribe via a RSS feed. ...
Translink schedules via bus stop ID
On very bus stop in Vancouver there is a 5 digit code near the top left or button right that is used to identify the bus stop. i have often wondered why I ca...
This Weeks Del.icio.us bookmarks 03/28/2007
bookmarks for funvill 120,000 Volt Van De Graaff Generator Here's how to make a 120,000 Volt Van De Graaff generator using metal mixing bowls, PVC pipe, a ...
Weekly post of del.icio.us book marks to wordpress
Thank to the help of herebox.org I was able to add the ability to get new links from my del.icio.us account and post them on this site once a week. the scrip...
Arroy-d - Best Thai in vancouver
One of my new favorite spots The atmospheres is pretty nice, they have an area where you can sit down on the floor on pillows, and the normal chair and table...
Extracting the IPTC data from an image in PHP
When you add a caption to an image in Google's Picasa/Picasa2 (and some other image editing programs) the caption is saved in a special spot in the imaged he...
Kyle Cooper - Single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art form
Kyle Cooper has directed over 150 film title sequences, and has been credited with “almost single-handedly revitalizing the main-title sequence as an art for...
Photo Gallery that does not require a MySql database
A while ago I was looking for a truly upload and go photo gallery one that does require a database. I found an abandoned PHP project called Simple PHP galler...
Mark Jenkins - Plastic babies
How to make cheap plastic babies with plastic wrap and clear tape.
Flickrs camera trend data
When you take a snap shot with your digital camera your camera also saves some extra meta information to the file called Exif data. Different camaras save di...
USBCELL AA Rechargable Battery
I hate buying batteries, I hate having to turn my house up side down looking for a fresh battery when I desperately need it. I will go out of my way to make ...
Stop motion drum and piano
A video where lassegg hits each note on a drum and piano separately and edited them together to make a song. Its pretty good if you ask me.
Subscribe to Comments
I found this great plug-in for [tag]Wordpress[/tag] that allows your users to subscribe to a posts comments, any reply to the post will be sent to there emai...
Track your packages with Google Maps
Isnoop.net has created a package tracking tool that will map your UPS, FedEx, USPS, or DHL/Airborne package’s progress with Google Maps.
Rss feeds in your inbox
Most people that I talk to find RSS feeds confusing. They don't want to set up a feed reader , they can seem to understand that it could save them time in th...
The Importance Of Deep Linking
www.Johnchow.com has an excellent post about the importations of deep linking. With the advent of scrapers (A robot that reads blog posts RSS feeds and creat...
View Product Key XP
If you have more than one system running XP you have obviously purchased more than one copy of the Operating System. However you may have forgotten which Pro...
Audio Player Wordpress Plugin
While creating a post about julie-feeney a wonderful musician I wanted to post some streamable samples of her music. Most Projects that I found where overly ...
Julie Feeney
A very creative musician with a fantastic voice, a very sexy Irish accent. She plays eleven instruments on “13 songs” album, including keyboards, alto recor...
Birdy Nam Nam
Birdy Nam Nam consites of 4 DJs, and 8 turn tables, with the simple mission to use a turntable as an actual musical instrument. A Four French men crew, Craz...
The Prestige (2006) - A beautifully crafted film
Tag line: A Friendship, That Became a Rivalry, A Rivalry, That Became a Battle. Its a story about two competing magicians locked in a bitter rivalry that en...
What are RSS feeds and how to use them
What is an RSS feed?
Design Competition - Board Game Design Challenge
The Vancouver Independant Game Designers Association chapter coordinators cordially invite entrants to create a unique board game based on one of three class...
Create a invisible book shelf
Create a invisible book shelf By inserting a “L” bracket behind the bottom book. Interesting if not absurdly simple.
Disable Windows low disk space warning
I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with the nagging Windows low disk space warning and offers from my helpful operating system to clean up the junk I have lying a...
12 Rules for Choosing Domain Names
SEOmoz.org/ has a great set of 12 tips for people that are planning on creating a new domain. Brainstorm 5 Top Keywords Make the Domain Unique Only Choo...
A mini hydroelectric damn that runs a LED inside your shower head.
I was browsing the Make Forums today when I ran across this post LED Shower Head/Faucet
Paprika trailer
A new paprika trailer Release date: 25 may 2007 29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on t...
Joke, My Grandfathers Death
Fellow 1: “Now my grandfather, he knew the exact day of the year that he was going to die. It was the right year too. Not only that, but he knew what time he...
Kitchen diaries
An interesting look at beat boxing and cooking YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/v/S7GGkKpBR-g
House Hunting in Vancouver
Some of my favorite house hunting websites in vancouver
Get a signed DVD of The Last Unicorn
This February, Lionsgate Entertainment celebrates the 25th anniversary of a true classic, The Last Unicorn, featuring an all-star cast of voice talent and so...
Beatboxing flute inspector gadget remix
A really interesting YouTube video where Greg Pattillo beatbox a flute to the inspector gadget theme, he even has a MySpace where you can listen to a few of ...
Lego Ice cube Tray
A tray made of silicone that can be used to make Lego shaped ice cubes. And it only costs 7.99. I found this nifty little item on freshfodder.wordpress.com ...
How messy is your network
If you’re a Network Professional you’ll certainly know how messy network can be! Cables all around the room, old computer material from the ice age all arou...
How to check your MAC address of your network cards
How to check your MAC address of your network cards 1) Open a command prompt (Windows Start button-> Run -> Type “cmd” ) 2) Type “ipconfig /all”
Y-105 USB to RS 232 Converter (DB9)
Whenever I have to go searching for a driver and the company"s web page is down or no longer supports this driver, I post the driver here so people that come...
2006
Tool at GM place Review
Erich Saide photo.
Larch Market
LARCH MARKET A community bazaar
Wreck Beach
This 7.8 kilometers long wilderness-like beach, which follows a promontory below an emerald-green forested, 200-foot high, cliff system weathered to beauty ...
Stanley Park
Stanley Park, Vancouver"s first park, is an evergreen oasis of 400 hectares (1,000 acres) close to the heart of Vancouver"s downtown core. Its natural west ...
Heritage Hall Comic Con
A day of alternative & small-press comics, zines, artwork & culture
HSBC Celebration of Light
The world’s leading fireworks manufacturers consider the HSBC Celebration of Light competition to be the most prestigious and an exciting arena where they c...
Midnight Mass Bike Ride
Hey all you kids out there in bike land - we’re days away from the 4th Thursday of the month - This thursday, July 27th it’s time once again for the midnigh...
Body-Worlds with Dr. Gunther von Hagens
Real humans. Real science. Really amazing! Never before has an exhibition offered such an intimate look at the human body. Approximately 200 real human spec...
Yaletown 06 Flamin Hot Classic Car Show and Summer Celebration
Heineken presents the Yaletown 06 Flamin’ Hot Classic Car Show and Summer Celebration, now revved up for its sixth year. This free event features one of the...
Bard On The Beach - Midsummer night’s dream
Forest sprites with magical potions create romantic havoc in this deliciously magical comedy. Upset with Queen Titania, Oberon, King of the Fairies, engages...
7th Vancouver Chinatown Festival
The Annual Vancouver Chinatown Festival is the largest multicultural summer celebration in the vancouver. Attended by families, youths, the general public...
Abbotsford International Airshow
Where: The Abbotsford Airport, a short drive from Vancouver (1 hour) When: AUGUST 11-13 What: Abbotsford International Airshow Cost: Child (5 and under) F...