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I made an angry box as a gift for a friend. This is very similar to 2.7-5.5V FUCK. Source code available on github.com. Make your own!
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Another project, hot on the heels of the PCsr — and this one might actually be practical. Stereos were a huge part of my youth. I bought them in garage sales and at thrift stores, the cheaper the better — department-store brands with commodity modules glued into toxic particle board. 8-track, cassette, AM/FM radio, and […]
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The PCsr is presented here as a rare specimen of a 1980s-era home computer. Yeah, yeah, so it never existed until now. This one started as an 8mm film editor spotted in a junk shop. It cried out for a screen replacement and computer installation. The fiddliest part of the whole thing was clearly going […]
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I’ve made many projects with Arduino-like boards — the Dymaxion Auto-Matic Buckminster Fuller (a Duemilanove), Drum Lights (a handful of Trinkets) and others — and since the beginning have considered them a really revolutionary thing. Arduino is a superhero of the Open Hardware movement, the gateway drug for many aspiring electronics hobbyists, and a necessary […]
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I just ran across a comment on my old (now-defunct) Free Geek Vancouver Volunteer Blog that came in response to Challenger:
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Happy New Year! I’ve just finished surviving a New Years’ show masterminded by Bobbi-Jo Moore of The Elixxxirs. Let me briefly sing her praises first: she assembled and coordinated an army of volunteers to put together a “Back To The Future” themed party and Parkinsons fundraiser for 400, including the bar, decoration, promotion, lighting, sound, […]
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So the neighbourhood survived the East Side Culture Crawl for another year — it was a beautiful weekend, no projects self-immolated, and people overall seemed to enjoy the presentation.
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I’m deep in preparation for the East Side Culture Crawl, an annual weekend festival in which studios scattered throughout the east side of Vancouver hold open houses. The art can be very good, and even if it isn’t, you get the chance to wander inside parts of Vancouver that most people only pass by. It […]
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I’ve recently made progress on a big project, which is pretty exciting — it involved printing up a real-life 2-layer printed circuit board, which has gotten astoundingly cheap and easy. Moron that later, though. Meanwhile, another paper-based small project: SI Playing Cards. This is another cheap gag that demanded to be made. Hopefully now it’ll […]
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It might appear that I’m not working on any projects lately. That’s not correct. What is true is that I’m not *finishing* any projects lately. My office is an impossible mess of unrealized potential. Hopefully this will lead to a flood of completions later. However, here’s a small one: The Duchess. (Here in Strathcona, if […]