I’m taking a year off from school right now. For Christmas, to show my parents that I’m not completely wasting it and that I like them, I decided to make them a coffee table. Live edge tables seem to be really popular. That makes a lot of sense because they are very nice. I decided [...]
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Here’s a chair that I originally built last summer to sit on out on my new deck. It didn’t get much use then, though, as it broke basically right away. Not suddenly and catastrophically, but very soon after seeing some light use, my roommate noticed one of the main support members was cracked and well [...]
Now you can purchase wonderful Hobgob products with Bitcoins, the experimental peer-to-peer digital currency. Just send a message to btc AT hobgobeclectronics DOT com and I’ll reply with a price and my receiving address. Digital currency! It’s like we’re in the FUTURE.
Here’s a nice documentary about Site 3, made by our intern from Ryerson’s New Media program, Michelle.
I’ll be talking about and demonstrating my BeatSneaks at the Royal Ontario Museum’s Institute for Contemporary Culture next week as a part of their Digital Artist Show and Tell series. You should come! You’ll get to try on a pair and make some music with your feet. I’ll be showing off the original BeatSneaks as [...]
Continuing with my apparent quest to fill my new apartment entirely with furniture of my own making, here’s a coffee table that I just put together. I can’t say the idea was entirely mine, though. In fact, it was entirely Craft Magazine’s. All’s you do is take an old typesetter’s drawer (which can be found [...]
So I just moved into a new place with a sweet deck and decided very quickly that we were going to need something to hang out around and eat on. Having seen this picnic table design, I built something that looks similar, but incorporates a few modifications. First off, I didn’t use cedar, because that [...]
Videos of people making things are the best!
Join me once again at Site 3 on August 24th for another circuit prototyping class. It will be just like this, but much less scary! From the event description: “Interested in learning to build electronic circuits, but don’t know where to start? This is the course for you! In this introductory-level course you’ll learn how [...]
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Site 3 just got a two-axis three-axis, full-size, CNC mill! Oooooh: This in addition to our trio of lathes and table-top manual mill that we got just a few weeks ago: Tools are great!
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