Categories Archives: Interesting

I visited Hacklab hackerspace

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 [...]

Thing tracking system and GeoCaching

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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. *  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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 information. Use of this site is entirely optional. Use at your own risk. Today on Slashdot they have an article on privacy policy and it got me thinking [...]

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 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 [...]

Arduino Infrared, Blue Robot challenge, Burning man and superman

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

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. [...]