Recently I had a chance to check another item off the bucket list…fly a plane! My friend John has a 3D printer which I helped him get dialed in and he paid me back by taking me for a spin in his plane on a perfect day.
A few weeks ago I agreed to appear on camera attempting to sing a verse of a remixed version of the 12 Days of Christmas with my friends from Zen Launchpad, Vandrico and a bunch of other folks from the local Vancouver tech/startup community. It’s a fun little video and my segment features a 3D…
I recently bumped into Ricky Shetty (daddyblogger.ca) at an event and he was very interested in 3D printing technology. So we ended up doing an interview via Google Hangout. It’s always fun explaining the technology to people and showing off the output from my printers. Thanks for the opportunity, Ricky!
Last Friday I got invited by Honda Canada to a parking lot behind the Pacific Coliseum to get some driving tips for driving a manual transmission. I wasn’t entirely sure what was going to happen but it sounded interesting and I haven’t driven a standard transmission in probably 20 years. I was helping a friend…
A few weeks ago, while I was setting up my stuff at the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire, Matthew approached me and asked if could interview me about being a maker. It turned out he was making a video series about makers asking all of us the same set of five questions. Every week, he’s posting the answers to those questions.
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Port Coquitlam gets Canada’s first Digital Classroom: Last week, Samsung Canada unveiled their pilot program, “Samsung Class”, the first digitally connected classroom in Canada. Using 31 Galaxy Tab 10″ tablets, a 65″ digital e-Board and custom software, the program at Riverside Secondary…
This past weekend was the third installment of the Live at Squamish music festival. For the second year in a row, I attended to shoot photos of all the bands that made the trek up the Sea to Sky highway. But I almost didn’t get there…despite heading up early, there was a huge accident on…
This past weekend I came across a very sweet deal on Craigslist that allowed me to trade my Nikon Lensbaby Composer for a micro 4/3s Lensbaby Composer with Tilt Transformer. It’s basically the same type of Lensbaby, except that it also has the added benefit of having an integrated adaptor so you can use Nikon…
Over the weekend I experimented with some new timelapse workflows using my GoPro Hero2 camera. It involved setting up the GoPro to shoot stills at specific intervals (every 5 seconds in the case of the Sappho’s Head and every 30 seconds in the case of the Crystal Bowl) and then downsizing the stills (using an…
Surprisingly great explanation of the 3d printing (and scanning) technology that Jay Leno uses to fix cars in his collection…from 2009! The technology in the video has gotten better and way cheaper now but the concepts are the same. via MAKE