The founder of the School of Fish Foundation, Shannon Ronalds, is working to create a positive impact on the seafood industry by educating chefs about sustainable seafood. He had a vision to build the floating dining room and new that plastic 2-Liter bottles could be used as flotation. With the help of a marine engineer [...]
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 More info
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 tried searching Google and yahoo but failed to find anything worth while so I created my own list. Set up a scavenger hunt with your family and friends [...]
* I found this post in my drafts, unfinished, lost and forgotten. I decided to post it, unfinished instead of deleting it. * What a Amazing, fun, aw-inspiring event. Thank you everyone that put on this event, Emily Dallas, Jenny, all the volunteers, makers and sponsors. Thank you for putting on a fantastic event. When I heard about this [...]
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 the others get to vote on his plan, and if fewer than half agree with him, he gets killed. How should he allocate the gold [...]
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. Started with attempting to clean my inbox. The first email I looked at was a reply to a post I made on Facebook. Logged in to Facebook to [...]
Shot with a Cannon s90 at one picture every 60 secs.
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 character recognition to translate you license plate number into something they can use as a lookup within the DMV database. With this in mind, he changed his license plate number [...]
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 “pong” Pong in answer to a ping: Yes, I do exist. I acknowledge your existence and you are no longer alone in this [...]
Insane Office Escape (try this at work!) – Biting Elbows Interesting music video, includes: free running, parkour, interesting fight sequence and camera angles. Well worth the 3mins it takes to watch it. ZombinLaden: The Axis of Evil Dead Short Film What if somebody found a rotting body at the bottom of the ocean? What if [...]
Documentary Heaven | Watch Free Documentaries Online (tags: video science reference)
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. Shot with a Cannon s90 at one picture per min.
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 the device the device needs to be restarted before the changes come in to effect. While the device is restarting the webserver is unreachable and the users get [...]
I didn’t take too many PG pictures, So here are others videos. Amazing year. My favorite art installation Rowing Skeletons / “Charon” by Peter Hudson Duane Flatmo’s steampunk-styled Octopus – El Pulpo Mechanico Random art montage. flickr burningman group http://www.flickr.com/groups/burningman/ A picture of my camp
Arduino Dashboard App – LVL1 ArduinoDashboard is an application for viewing analog and digital pin sensor values from an arduino in real time. This can be used with any arduino sketch and now has compiled versions with no need to download processing.org ide. Sources included as well. (tags: tools tutorial arduino visualization)
LPC1768 / LPC1769 LPCXpresso board The LPC1768 / LPC1769 LPCXpresso board with NXP's ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller has been designed to make it as easy as possible to get started with Cortex-M3. The LPCXpresso comprises a target board combined with a JTAG debugger. A free Eclipse-based IDE from Code Red is also included. (tags: arm microcontroller)
tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. (tags: photography photo script) Single Omnidrive Platform – Exhibit 13 The goal of this project was to create a drive mechanism capable of forward, reverse, and rotation without changing [...]
Spacehack a directory of ways to participate in space exploration (tags: software opensource blog space)
QR Code Stencil Generator and QR Hobo Codes | F.A.T. Yep, it’s a QR code stencil generator! We present QR_STENCILER, a free, fully-automated utility which converts QR codes into vector-based stencil patterns suitable for laser-cutting. Additionally, we present QR_HOBO_CODES, a series of one hundred QR stencil designs which, covertly marked in urban spaces, may be [...]