Mar
16
2012
Working on a 1/12 scale Police Box for my kids since they started playing Doctor Who (no really, honest.)
Based on pictures of the 50′s era Police Box, but lots of liberties taken to make it easy to laser cut. First version was 1/8 scale to make it easier to figure out the cuts.
Laser cut from 3mm hardboard and assembled with a bit of glue, but mostly it press-fits together.
Oct
21
2011
As you all should be aware, KwartzLab (in kind co-operation with THEMUSEUM, and the generous sponsorship of the KWAwesome Fund) is hosting Hacky Hallowe’en, a carving-soldering-hacking skills workshop, on Saturday October 29. As part of this workshop, we’ll be teaching you (yes, YOU!) how to safely carve intricate designs into a pumpkin. Of course, in order to pass this wisdom down, some of us ‘Labbers first needed to learn the skill ourselves.
KwartzLab friend and pumpkin carving guru, Jeff-o, held such a workshop for us on Wednesday evening. And as a graduate of the kitchen knife & stitches school of pumpkin carving, I was first in line! I’ll share some of the tips we learned after Hacky Hallowe’en. In the meantime, however, you can take a peek at our technique!
Andrew opts for a "fancy" lid.
Pumpkins are tasty.
Taping the pattern to the pumpkin.
Transfering the pattern to the pumpkin.
Doug shows off the KWAwesome pumpkin
Awesome-looking pumpkins, that don't require blood sacrifice.
More pics over here.
Sep
6
2011
There’s a rule of thumb in the hackerspace community – hold your open house on Tuesday. It’s completely arbitrary. No matter what day of the week you do pick for your open house, there will be someone who just can’t make it. Many just pick Tuesday by convention and no more thought is needed. Unfortunately, it makes it hard to visit other spaces since members generally want to be at home base for the open house. But since I was out of town with no hopes of making it to Kwartzlab, I had a perfect excuse to take a Tuesday to visit Hacklab.to.
Aug
25
2011
I remember reading an amazing article in National Geographic back in the early ’90s about lightning. There were a handful of brilliant photographs, but the one that really grabbed me was a night shot overlooking a city as a storm front moved in, capturing 30 or more forks of lightning over a 30-second exposure. I’m no photographer (as I am happy to admit at every available opportunity), but when I saw an incredible storm front moving in on the evening of the 24th, I couldn’t resist trying to create some of my own photographs of lightning.
May
24
2011
By Alex W
On Victoria Day Monday, I joined a handful of folks from the Hamilton hackerspace Think|haus in Mount Nemo to have a look at one of the leading location candidates for SoOnCamp 2012.
May
16
2011
By jb » 1 Comment
And now to catch up on 6 weeks of Tuesday Open Night pictures. Enjoy!
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May
12
2011
On April 21, a delegation from Kwartzlab made the trek to Toronto to check out fellow hackerspace Site 3 – and in particular their laser cutter!
May
9
2011
By jb
Toronto Mini Maker Faire was all kinds of awesome. Thanks to all the kwartzlab friends and members that came out. Our tables were packed with projects and people!
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Apr
18
2011
By jb » 3 Comments
Photos from another excellent chiptunes event presented by Bitmasters Netlabel at Maxwell’s Music House in Waterloo.
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Apr
16
2011
By jb » 3 Comments
Here are a few pictures I took at the 8-bit music festival, PRESS START, presented by Bitmasters Netlabel at THEMUSEUM in downtown Kitchener.
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