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.
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 [...]
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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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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Well, that didn’t take very long. Filmmaker Ryan Varga made this short documentary about maker culture, filmed at the very recent Toronto Mini Maker Faire. See if you can spot all the Site 3 members!
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This weekend, Site 3 and the Treehouse Group held the first ever Toronto Mini Maker Faire: “Toronto Mini Maker Faire is the ultimate celebration of making, crafting, DIY-ing, tinkering, hacking and sharing. It’s a weekend where makers of all kinds will show off their projects and hold how-to workshops, with hands-on activities for all ages. [...]
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