While visiting Toronto I was able to make it down to Hacklab.To and get a tour of their space. It was a very well set up space with lots of projects all around the space. Including an automated train system with a crane, Lots of RaspberryPI projects including an interactive touch screen that gave information about the space. I [...]
While I was in New York to see World Maker Faire, I got a chance to visit HACK Manhattan. It was a busy night as they where doing a workshop with the OLLO robot kit. The people from OLLO gave us a robot kit to take home with us. It was a lot like lego mindstorms [...]
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 adventures at Maker Faire, but I was able to meet a few good people, drop off some stickers, and take some pictures of [...]
The past few weeks I have been doing a lot of GeoCaching in and around Vancouver, BC (funvill on Geocaching.org). There are 1000s of Geo Caches with in a 45 min bike ride around Vancouver. I have found about 25 different caches. Most of the caches have only been big enough to house a sheet of paper so you can sign [...]
Games Burning man 2012 “Hula Cam” Burning man 2011 “Home”
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 Practical intro to computer security at Vancouver Hackspace. Off the record (OTR) is a plugin for most IM clients that sets up a secure connection between two computers that you can [...]
* 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 the light reflects off the holes.
There are a lot of different POV projects out there that have influenced my project. n00tron 3D volumetric spherical display – interactive exhibit This is an interesting project. Instead of putting the LEDs on the outside of the ring they put them on the spokes of a bicycle rim. Then they spin the bicycle rim [...]
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 followed the link and signed up for the newsletter. Showing me that spam just doesn’t work. Ray Gun Revival teaser trailer was released a week later then the launch but more [...]
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 repeating the same mistakes and give you a direction to go next year. This year I have traveled to Atlanta, GA, USA (BACnet Plugfest) , Montreal, QC Canada, Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada, Calgary, AB, Canada, Black rock [...]
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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 going to happen. I just have to accept the fact that I am mortal and plan for the future. One of the things that I am concerned is [...]
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 Sunday, I thought, as I was under deadline pressure. Saturday evening, my main machine died in flames. Sent it off for data recovery. The guy running the [...]
Blue robot challenge This week I have been concentrating on the Blue robot challenge from VHS part of their June robot month. The blue robot challenge is to build a simple robot from their blue robot kits that can sense and capture various IR beacons scattered around the room. The beacons have three states, Red, Blue, Neutral. when [...]
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, interesting projects, local events, ect. The Vancouver sun wrote an artical about Every Day Fiction where we talk about our newest upcoming project EveryDayNovels.com to be launched sometime in fall of 2010. [...]