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Hey everyone, What/When: Just wanted to let you know that I’m planning to run a workshop on Thursday 31st Jan where you will be able to: Bring your own TV-B-Gone kit (if you got one for Christmas) and get help with it. Build your very own TV-b-Gone from a kit available on the day. Upgrade [...]
tl;dr: come help build VHS’ first christmas tree on Tuesday! Long version: ‘Twas a month before Christmas, when all through the space Not a hacker was stirring, not even to lase; The tools were left on the bench without care, In hopes that St. DanHOC soon would be there; 3D printers were lined up all [...]
Lock picking is the art of unlocking a lock by analyzing and manipulating the components of the lock device, without the original key. Although lock picking can be associated with criminal intent, it is an essential skill for a locksmith. Lock picking is the ideal way of opening a lock without the correct key, while [...]
What: A short talk about using EL wire and how it works, and then we can play and make glow bikes and glow outfits! West Coast Kits (a kit company birthed by VHS members) just brought in lots of new EL kits in 4 colours (dark blue, aqua blue, hot pink, neon green) as well [...]
I’m really digging the first test drawing that the new plotbot squeezed out from it’s steppers. The image it created on the paper was generated by a couple of different tweaks to the AFMotor+AccelStepper example code. This plotbot is made up of two PF35T-48 steppers being driven by an arduino & adafruit motor shield. Future [...]
The Vancouver Community Lab is having a party this Saturday, Jan 28th at 8pm. Please feel free to come by and say hi. Also, there are still a few spots left in the welding course on Sunday, Jan 29th from 1pm to 4pm. Please sign up at the eventbrite site if interested. The cost is [...]
We are going to be developing our own card and board-games. These are going to be quick and dirty prototypes that we can use to test game mechanics and see what works and what doesn’t. We can do it in groups or as individuals. I will see if I can find some prizes for the best game, most complete game, [...]
Resistor Labels 1 Resistor Labels 2 Thank you John Craver for creating and labeling the resistor drawer labels.
STRUIX is a physical computing architecture designed to facilitate intercommunicating multiprocessor, multiprogram, parallel computing applications based on the Amtel megaAVR microcontroller and the circular topology of the LilyPad Arduino. Mark’s leverages the Lilypad Arduino from fashion accessory into a number crunching, I/O increasing multi-processor platform. It was developed, in part, for his to create a (relatively) [...]
