Summary: Panels for acoustic treatment in my home theatre.
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Acoustic treatment is one of the most overlooked aspects of home audio. There's no point in spending money on premium speakers if the room they are playing in has poor acoustics.
Summary: A recipe generated by ChatGPT for peanut butter cookies.
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<spanclass="aside">(describe a house fire in the style of a crappy blog post that people put above recipes that tell their life story before getting to the point about how their house burned down) </span>The flames danced around the living room, illuminating the memories that were now nothing more than ash. It was a warm summer evening, and we were all gathered in the backyard, enjoying the company of good friends and family. Little did we know that our lives were about to change forever.
Summary: Fake dog barking for home security while on vacation.
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I set up a fake dog that barks if my surveillance cameras are triggered while I'm out of town on vacation. It's a pair of computer speakers plugged into a Raspberry Pi, which is an inexpensive single-board computer. One speaker faces the front door and the other faces the side door.
Summary: Hacking my garage door opener to work over Wifi.
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In the quest to automate as much of my house as possible, I thought it would be useful to be able to remotely control my garage door from my home automation system. If I suspected that I forgot to close it while leaving, I could check in my security cameras and then close it from anywhere. It's nice having this peace of mind, even if it almost never happens.
Summary: A withered hand I welded out of scrap metal.
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I was visiting my cousins in Radium, BC and decided to learn stick welding at their shop. I wanted to create a sculpture, so with pieces of scrap metal I welded together this hand. The beads are far from perfect. Working with small pieces of rusted metal made it difficult.
Summary: A dress made out of LEDs that twinkle like stars.
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A friend of mine was attending a stars and constellations themed ball. She wanted to wear a dress that was lit up with LEDs acting as twinkling stars. Seven of the 28 stars are aligned to resemble the Big Dipper constellation and twinkle differently than the rest, which twinkle in a random pattern.
I wanted the ability to toggle my bedroom light remotely for convenience. I designed a circuit that allows me to control my light with any device that can load a webpage.
Summary: Send browser notifications from your terminal. No installation. No registration.
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[Notica](https://notica.us) allows you to send browser notifications from your terminal to know when a slow command has finished running. It doesn't require installing anything or registering an account. It also works over ssh unlike `notify-send`.
Summary: My first attempt at painting with acrylic.
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The painting is called “Man’s Reach Exceeds His Grasp”. I've always wanted to try painting and thought I had a good idea, so after a couple of drawings I attempted to paint it. I eventually got it framed at Michaels. Many thanks to my friend Laura for the opportunity to do this, I couldn't have done it without her help.
Summary: A device that automatically waters plants.
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One day I decided watering my one plant was too much work, so I automated it. It's also great for when I'm on vacation. The plant is a year old now and doesn't look as good as it used to (kinda like you). So this machine is like its life support.
Summary: An outline of my projects at Calgary's makerspace Protospace.
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[Protospace](https://protospace.ca) is Calgary's original makerspace, a place where people go to make things and work on projects. It's a two-bay industrial shop with a full wood working area, metal working area, electronics lab, two laser cutters, five 3D printers, and sewing room. Members pay $55/month for 24/7 access to the facility and everyone is equal: Protospace has no owners and decisions are made by the membership.
Summary: Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, and Tildes articles pre-rendered in reader mode. Optimized for speed and distraction-free reading.
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[QotNews](https://news.t0.vc) is a news meta-aggregator. It gathers top articles from four news aggregators: Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, and Tildes along with their comments. The articles are then transformed into readable versions with consistent formatting and distractions removed. All articles in the main feed are preloaded by the client so they load instantly when clicked on.
Summary: About my time volunteering with the University of Calgary Solar Car Team, where I designed a maximum power point tracker.
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I joined the University of Calgary Solar Car Team in my first semester for a chance to learn things, gain practical experience, and meet people that share my interests. The car was the top Canadian team in a 3000 km race from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia in 2011. We met up at a shop on campus every Saturday morning to work on the new Generation IV of the solar car.
Summary: Member portal for Calgary Protospace. It tracks dues, courses, training, access cards, and more.
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[Spaceport](https://my.protospace.ca) is the member portal that I wrote for [[Protospace]], a makerspace that I frequent in Calgary. It is by far my largest project and the one I've spent the most time on. It has a database of all our members and tracks their transactions like dues and training fees. It allows members to sign up for classes and our instructors to teach courses. It also manages the access cards that members use to get into the building.
Summary: Software and products that I recommend you use.
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This outlines some software and devices I recommend you use: uBlock Origin, Sponsorblock, Aegis Authenticator, ThruNite T1 flashlights, Logitech G Pro Wireless mice, and ThinkPad Laptops. Nothing here was sponsored.
Summary: A coffee table made out of wooden wine creates.
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My close friend Odai saw a simple coffee table design online that was built out of four wooden wine crates. They are quite cheap and available at any hardware store. We each wanted to make one so went and bought eight crates and some plywood to use as a base.
Summary: A list of minimal microservices on my t0.vc domain.
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The t-zero Services are a collection of minimalist microservices that I host on my t0.vc domain. The letter "t" meaning me, and "0" meaning small. They're all meant to do exactly one thing reliably and stay online for as long as I can host them.
Summary: Minimal command line pastebin. Allows you to upload text notes from a bash pipe or web browser.
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[t0txt](https://txt.t0.vc) is a minimalist pastebin. You can upload text notes from the command line by using a bash alias or by submitting text through the web form.
