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2023

Getting back into the swing of things

I’ve been meaning to get back into documenting projects for a long time - about nine years, going by the timestamps on this website. A lot has happened in th...

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2014

The Open Hardware Advent Calendar 2014

When I was a kid, we used to get advent calendars, with a chocolate for every day from December 1 to Christmas Day. Often, the chocolate tasted terrible, but...

New project: the PiMinder

We’ve started work on another new project, which we’re calling the PiMinder. It’s still a work in progress - don’t have any photos yet - but it’s coming alon...

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2013

Introducing the 2013 Christmas PCBs

Two years ago, I made a snowman circuit board. It was a fairly simple board - white with black silkscreen artwork, and a bunch of LEDs for the scarf and butt...

Trip Report: Maker Faire Detroit 2013

This marks our third time exhibiting at this Faire, and fourth time attending overall. Our project this time was the DIYPinball system, which we’ll get to ...

Maker Faire Detroit 2013

We presented our latest project, DIYPinball, at Maker Faire Detroit this past weekend, along with collaborators Inventor’s Playground and Useful Robot. More ...

Update: Bluetooth Polygraph

Just a quick update on the Bluetooth Polygraph project. More description is coming soon - possibly full documentation before the Waterloo Maker Faire this we...

New PCBs are in!

We just got a bunch of new PCBs in, which means more projects are going to move forward.

NESVerter

Introduction The NESVerter is a conversion board to make an original NES controller into a USB gamepad. It originally came about after I made one based on th...

Project Vending Machine 1.0

Introduction The Project Vending Machine is a vending machine for digital goods - files, specifically. Vending Machine is a bit of a misnomer, actually - no ...

New Project: 3D Printer

3D printers are the new must-have tool for people who make things. Personally, I want one for two reasons: designing and building custom enclosures for elect...

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2012

Maker Faire Ottawa 2012

Another update: Randy is on his way to Mini Maker Faire Ottawa 2012. The following projects are in tow: StatusLight Interro Christmas Ornament 2011 A ne...

Big Update

Hey there! We just updated a ton of pages to have actual, you know, content. We’ve added photos and made source code available from our Bitbucket repositorie...

Projects from Maker Faire 2012

Thanks to everyone who came out to visit us at Maker Faire Detroit 2012! More information to come, but for now, here are the links to our project source code...

Maker Faire Detroit 2012

We’re applying to exhibit at Maker Faire Detroit 2012, in conjunction with our friends at Useful Robot and Inventor’s Playground. Some of the projects we’re ...

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2011

Download our projects from Maker Faire

We’d like to thank everyone for visiting our booth at Maker Faire Detroit, and as promised, we have made all the projects dispensed by the Project Vending Ma...

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