For the last little while, I’ve been playing with a new 3d printer on loan from my friends at Tinkerine Studio called the Litto. This is a mini version of their popular Ditto printer which I’ve mentioned before. The $999 Litto (kit plus the $79 LCD controller which is an optional addon) has a small…
There is a cool new space that just opened in Chinatown called the Laser Cutter Cafe. It’s a popup shop that is only around for a few weeks but I hope it stays around longer. So what is it? It’s a place to go and use their multiple laser cutters to make cool stuff. Using…
Brother Canada recently offered their latest all in one printer, the MFC-J4510DW, for me to try out. I wasn’t sure what to expect but was pleasantly surprised when it arrived. The first thing I noticed after setting it up is the big touchscreen display. It’s about the size of an iPhone screen with some additional…
With the closing of Google Reader, something that I literally used hundreds of times a day, I had to find a replacement. Everyone seemed to jump to Feedly, Flipboard, Digg, the Old Reader or a handful of others that seemed to have sprung up after Google’s announcement. I’m pretty sure I tried them all. There…
This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Privacy visor glasses jam facial recognition systems to protect your privacy: Currently being developed at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, these glasses have a number of near-infrared LEDs embedded in them that are invisible to the human eye but blinding to facial…
As I mentioned in my previous post about Seattle Mini Maker Faire, one of the things that impressed me was the Kossel Mini deltabot 3d printer. At the 3D604 Build Day held last Sunday at the Vancouver Hackspace, Colin & I were able to make some serious progress on our builds: We’re using black OpenBeam…
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 topics: Petfig: A new service in Japan is offering customers the ability to immortalize their pets in full color 3d printed models. You send in photos of your pet and 3D Wave will create a model that will be printed in sandstone that…
I’ve seen a lot of 3D printers lately and one printer that surprised me was the Printrbot. A few people in our club have them and I was blown away by the quality they were getting from such an inexpensive 3d printer – which meant a $500 machine. I usually tell people to expect to…