For the second year in a row, I was asked to help document the Christmas Wish Breakfast event at the Pan Pacific Hotel in Vancouver. This was the 24th year of the event and it was the biggest yet! A highlight this year was the surprise from the Vancouver Fire Department who had a couple…
This past weekend, I was able to spend some quality ‘tourist’ time in two of my favorite cities: Seattle and Vancouver. A quick day trip to Seattle met with great weather as my girlfriend and I took in the Underground Tour of Seattle. It’s been on my list of things to do in Seattle for…
I’ve been busily printing Prusa Mendel RepRap parts for people on my MakerBot for awhile now and decided to finally setup a proper online store for them and other printed objects at AllThings3D.com After playing with a bunch of different storefront options, I’ve decided to just use a simple PayPal order button for now. There…
This weekend I attended the 3rd installment of TEDxVancouver. It was held at the Chan Centre out at UBC which is a stunning place to witness any kind of event or performance. In this case, a thousand people came out for the day to listen to speakers from all different backgrounds and disciplines. I was…
Last night I successfully installed Android (Cyanogen Mod 7) onto my HP TouchPad. I followed the very thorough tutorial on PCPro so I won’t be going over the steps in this post. I did use Windows 7 for the install since the tutorial specified it. Not sure if there is Mac tutorial out there but…
Figured an update was in order since I’ve been pretty busy with lots of things since the summer. A few nights before halloween, I figured it was time to carve up a pumpkin down at my local indoor shooting range: and practice for the upcoming zombie apocalypse with a 9mm and shotgun. Of course, this…
It’s no secret that most geeks are hard to buy for…myself included. I figured a list of fun things you’re not going to find at the local department store might be useful…with plenty of lead time to buy them online. In no particular order: Lomokino & Lomoscope (~$100, Lomography) I love the concept of this…
My first truly designed 3d printed object! Kinda. I have created other things (mostly font based objects) but this is the first thing I literally sketched out and ended up with a physical object. It’s taken awhile to finally get up to speed on all the different tools and techniques required to do this (and…
It’s been awhile so I thought I’d post a quick update on my Prusa Mendel build progress. Technically, I’ve got everything I need to assemble the 3D printer…just a lack of time lately. I’m hoping to fix that this weekend though. I’ve got all the electronics now and just need to wire them up. I…
Last month, I took my MakerBot down to the Get Connected TV studios and taped a segment about 3D printing that aired this week on national tv. Now that it’s aired, I can embed the video right here: We shot a timelapse of the Thing-O-Matic printing the show’s logo and showed off a bunch of…