This is me trying to look all introspective and shit for profile pictures while in Paris.
https://instagram.com/p/1v7d59A5ei/?taken-by=funvill
I join VHS back in 2008 a few months after VHS was founded, back in the 45 west hastings days. I was on the Board of directors for VHS from 2009-2014. I help found Maker Foundation (We put on Maker Faire in vancouver) and was on their BoD until this year. I have been part of numerous other Non-profits. I am am member of most of the other hackspaces/creative spaces, and alternative teaching spaces in vancouver. I have run ~76 workshops/talks/SHHH/events at VHS over the past ~6 years (I try for 12 a year). I love VHS and want to see it grow and become more than it is now.
You can find me on the web here:
Twitter, instagram, Github, Facebook, Reddit, Blog, etc…
Q1) What are you currently working on?
So many things. Tiny singing tesla coil, 64x button Untztrument-trellis midi controller, 16x Arcade button midi controller for open sound control, 16x Potentiometer midi controller, laser cut monsters, A 16 foot Mirrored Icosahedron dome called “Pocket Universe”, Paper lanterns, Paper Polyhedron Mobile, Paper shadow puppet frames, Fairy door NSG project, kids workshop for VHS on book cipher, mealworm growing chamber. This is my current work table to give you a better understanding of the chaos
Q2) What have you made in the past
Too many to count. Here is a few of the past workshops/events I have run at VHS
- Workshop: Introduction to arduino blink sketch and E-Textiles
- Open Night: Wheatpasting at VHS
- Workshop: Creating stencils with Inkscape and Potrace
- Open source, laser cut, maps Workshop
- Grand Opening and SHHH – Feb 21st
- Beer advent calendar – VHS Style
- DevboardAholics Anonymous Night
- Boardgames development night
Q3) What is your favourite tool?
Laser cutter, no question. The laser cutter is is one of my favorites tool.
Followed by a Shopbot (Wood CNC)
Q4) What do you want to learn?
Sound anything to do with it, I have no skills in sound at all. Grant writing, larger infrastructure projects (effects +100k people), large interactive art projects (burning man). design, ux, Large scale web apps (+10k users), scaling web apps (1k to 100k users), etc…
Q5) What skills do you have?
Too many to count. C/C++ and at least 10 other compiled languages, PHP, node, python, ect. Inkscape, open data wrangling, data visualization, QS, hundreds of online APIs (Google APIs, Twilio, etc…), I have built drivers for 140+ industrial automation protocols, project management and all the tools associated with it. Event management. Embedded programing with most of the common chipsets (PIC, Atmel, ARM, rabbit, coldfire, etc…) , Publishing (I have published 25 books, and I operate 5 online fiction magazines), etc…
Please feel free to PM me directly if you have any questions or “Reply as a new topic”