Author Archives: Tom

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.

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Here’s a nice documentary about Site 3, made by our intern from Ryerson’s New Media program, Michelle.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Videos of people making things are the best!

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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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3D printing (sintering) with the power of the sun!

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On May 27 I will be teaching an Introduction to Circuit Prototyping class at Site 3! The class will show you how to follow a schematic, prototype an electronic circuit on a breadboard, test it, and then play with it. For our circuit we will be using the Atari Punk Console, which is a fun [...]

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