This has been a great year! Removed stressful people from my life, simplifying my life considerably. My girlfriend has moved in with me, helping me to become a better person, with my heath and generally motivating me to become all I can be. Making new friends and surrounding myself with positive people that do wonderful things. Started taking on smaller more attainable projects and completing them. I have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
We just got our camp placement for burning man (Rites Of Passage) this year. Divorce and 7:30. If your coming, (and why wouldn’t you be) stop by and check out Retrofrolic - The place of pink pain and pleasure. We also get to know what the street names are for this year. They also seemed to have [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Its been a busy month, the start of the year always is. Built my first Android APP with Phone gap. Its a happiness survey that lets users report there current happiness level once an hour. The reports go back to my website and get stored in a database. I hope to run this survey for a year and see if [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Canada’s DMCA (AKA Bill C-61) is back up in front of parliament again. We defeated it once before in summer of 2008 now they change it slightly call it a different name, emphasize different points and send it back to parliament. Basically they are hoping for “Crisis fatigue” “Crisis fatigue” – When a person is first told about a something like [...]
Every Night Erotica online magazine launching May 1st 2010. Vancouver, Canada – April 13, 2010 – A new web magazine publishing an erotic short fiction story each night is now accepting submissions. Every Night Erotica will launch with their first sexy short story May 1st 2010. All genres of erotica will be accepted; stories may be up [...]
Flash fiction is perfect for your coffee break, your commute, or whenever you have a few minutes for yourself. Crafted with gemlike precision, every flash fiction piece tells a complete story, never using more than a thousand words. The Best of Every Day Fiction Two brings together one hundred flash fiction pieces selected from Every Day [...]