After victory and defeats in the early days of 3D printing, I shelved my MakerBot Cupcake until recently. The desire to print has re-emerged in me with a brutal vengeance and print I shall! While waiting for new electronics to upgrade Cupcake155 with, I opted to get it as far as I could with the stock Gen3 electronics. …

I wrote a little free mobile app for the Blackberry Playbook. SiteSearcher is available here

In the Beginning The Dawning.ca Project was something I started out of boredom back in 2001 while in grade 12. There was a 3 week long teachers strike, I suspect I got more done in that time than I did in most months of high school. Ohh the irony of closing a school and boosting education. Anyway, since that time the …

Some FPGA Work There are those times when goofin with software isn’t tactile enough for me and I need to take my work elsewhere.. Thus “go-go-gadget Engineer” mode. Some of my Hardware Efforts: \t- MakerBot #155: 3D Object Maker Coolness \t- Mouse Hack: A funky USB/Wireless Network Hack \t- HypnoOrb: Funky Lamp

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Some random code of mine… In step with my inner Computer Scientist, I often bury my brain in intensely fun software development projects. Some times it’s for work, often times it’s because I like to stretch my neurons. Some Projects Of Mine Not all of my code can be made public, but you know, some can. Some of my …

This is a web application I wrote to help me manage the YouTube videos I like most. Using this, I (or you) can dump in the address to a YouTube video. The system then stores that video info and automatically downloads the video in to a M4V file on to my fileserver. The result is that it’s easy for me to add a bunch of …

Cupcake155 is my first 3D printer. I bought the kit new, back in 2009; when home 3D printing was especially new. Mine is the 155th Makerbot. Originally it barely worked and I gave up on it entirely for years. It’s now a bit of a unique combination of parts and works reasonably well. It’s currently helping me bootstrap …

I decided one day that my USB mouse needed more spunk. I had been finding that I was using a USB wireless card a lot, but it took up a lot of room and was big enough that the adjacent port was covered (unless I used a USB hub). So it occured to me that I could probably cram the HUB and the wireless card inside the …

Want some Dawning Swag? Well thanks to CafePress, you’re in luck! Check out the Dawning Swag below! Military Green Dawning Bonsai Tree Red Dawning Bonsai Tree (Manually select Red) Value T-Shirt with the Dawning Bonsai The Dawning Bonsai on a Light T-Shirt The Dawning Sunset Shirt Dawning Kitty T-Shirt Dawning Bonsai …

The HypnoOrb is a project I started that’s grown in to various small projects. The constant between them all is that it has to do with making pretty lighting using randomly selected combinations of Red, Green and Blue (all the real primary colours, thus can make whatever colour). HypnoOrb related projects all draw …