Monthly Archives: August 2012

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 for about $0.10 each. I found the wooden table at thrift store for $20 and two sheets of acrylic. I made the square acrylic version first as a test to see how [...]

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. The password recovery system emailed me my password in plain text instead of a link to reset the password. This means that HostGator stores its users passwords as plain text in their database [...]

Look what I made – Acrylic chess set

  I made a Acrylic chess set at Vancouver Hackspace (VHS) on their new laser cuter. The design files came from thingiverse. This is the first thing that I have ever made with a Laser cuter. It was a great learning experience and I hope to move on to stencils next. Normally a stencil would take me upwards of two [...]