This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Wifi controlled Lightbulbs: The GreenWave Reality Connected Lighting Solution is a $200 kit that allows you to control the four included LED light bulbs via wifi from your smartphone. You can create simple or complex lighting schedules, group bulbs together to act…
During my visit to the Portland Mini Maker Faire in September, I stumbled across Low Voltage Labs and their cool little Great Pumpkin PCB kit. Meant to add a safe, flickery LED light to a pumpkin, I thought it would also look cool inside the Companion Cube box I just printed on my Replicator 2:…
As I mentioned previously, I sold my Thing-O-Matic and was waiting for it’s replacement. Well, the Replicator 2 arrived and I’ve been printing stuff like crazy with it. Unlike the Thing-O-Matic, this printer comes (nearly) fully assembled so I was up and running almost immediately. MakerBot already did a great unboxing video so I won’t:…
This weekend, Metrotown in Burnaby plays host to the Canadian World Cyber Games national finals. This is the first time the finals have come to the west coast. Winners this weekend, go on to represent Canada in the Grand Final in China at the end of November. I went down to check it out and…
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Introducing Maily for iPad from Maily on Vimeo. A brief conversation about the shift post-Steve Jobs that Apple is making with diverse products and services that Jobs may never have approved during his time at the helm. Your child’s first email application:…
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I’ve been seeing a number of Mendel Max’s in the wild lately (Portland Maker Faire and at VHS) and really like a number of things about them so I ordered a set of parts from Lulzbot.com and have spent a little bit of time (roughly) putting it together using a set of parts I printed…
This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver I discussed these items: It’s a glove and a bluetooth headset: These $50 HiCall gloves are also a bluetooth handset. For those cold morning calls, you simply hold your thumb up to your ear and your pinky to your mouth and the gloves work like a handset….
September was a busy month for me. I had a couple of road trips planned to attend Maker Faire in Calgary and the XOXO Festival in Portland. Honda Canada was generous enough to loan me a couple of their vehicles to put them through their paces on these trips. I chose two very different vehicles…