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.
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Reddit Holiday Greeting Card Exchange
Made with marginallyclever.com for the Reddit Gifts exchange Source image Gcode for the drawbot
VHS raven cache
This is the first Geo Caches that I have ever made. Created after the Geo Cache info session at the Vancouver Hackspace. I put it in an alley in the downtown east side near the entrance to the Vancouver Hackspace. It got approved on Saturday and has already been found by 4 people! This cache can be found [...]
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 several different Geo Caches across New York and Toronto. The problem was that ALL of the caches that I tried to find in New [...]
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 [...]
LEGO 3D Milling Machine – “3D Printer”
LEGO 3D Milling Machine – “3D Printer” Amazing, built out of lego.
Making a Gear Heart
I created a Gear Heart for a friends birthday on Maker Bot (A 3D printer) at Vancouver Hackspace’s. It took about 8 hrs to print all the different parts. I also created a time-laps video of my printing two of the gears. This is a decent animation showing how the gear system works. It was a [...]
Making puppets
Me and a few friends made some simple sock puppets at Vancouver Hackspace this week. We made them as a test before we try to make more complex Muppets style puppets. I think they turned out really well for our first attempt.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Burning Man 2011 – Rites of Passage
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
LED light bulb suit.
I need to make a suit like this for burning man
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.
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. It work okay but had a few problems. It was direct drive driven and I was worried about burning out the motor. It was scary fast and got unstable as it speeds up. Three days before Maker Faire I decide to [...]
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 the help of a few fantastic friends we where able to make 150 painted signs for 4 different sign posts.
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 makes these status updates as I would rather be making something or going outside and enjoying the sunshine and now Appa (A black kitty) won’t let [...]
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 I have attempted before, and quite a bit more expensive. My project will be similar to this project watch?v=4KN0xoHsUiI But my project has more LEDs, it will play almost [...]
Super Happy Crafter House 1.0
A short timelaps video from Super Happy Crafter House 1.0 Super Happy Crafter House is an open event intended for crafters of all kinds. Those interested in papercraft, origami, technology exploration, sewing, knitting, spinning, weaving, felting, crocheting — and beyond! We’re open to new ideas and craft projects and would love to see you there! [...]
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.