A brick-built rendition of the mind-bending Bulging Checkerboard optical illusion attributed to Akiyoshi Kitaoka.
One of the theories for why our brains process this illusion in the way they do is that the brain misinterprets the space between the smaller dots and their closest corners as LINES. But because they are slightly offset between the two colors, your brain thinks they should be bending or tilted because of the margin between the dot and the edge. "our brains interpret these margins as lines, skewing our perception, changing the apparent angle of intersection of the square borders. Instead of all right angles, some apparently becoming acute, some obtuse."
With final Star Wars film coming out this season PLUS the epic Mandalorian series, it only seemed fitting to do a Star Wars Christmas Tree. The top of the tree is being blown up with the green laser from the Death Star directly above it (get it? Because it's a star? Yeah you get it). It also features some ominously floating Star Destroyers. All the pieces are hung using fishing line. Also, all the ornaments are X-wings and TIE Fighters and other ships from the series.
For FanExpo and Halloween this year I decided to do a Punk Rock Darth Vader costume. Most of the punk stuff was easy enough to find. The trickiest bit was drilling the holes into the helmets and attaching the spiky rivets. My friend also did a Punk Rock Boba Fett so I did the helmet up for him too.
This year's Christmas tree was inspired by the not-so-good Venom movie. The intent was to make it look as if the Venom Symbiote was attempting to absorb and merge with the tree, lifting off the floor in the process and mimicking the pine needle structures of the tree itself in the process.
I built an iPhone/iPod Touch app and companion app for the Pebble Watch (and Apple Watch coming soon) that works with a Google Cardboard headset to digitally enhance the sight of people who are visually impaired. My father is nearly blind and we were looking at a similar product by eSight, but they charge $15,000 USD for their headset. Frustrated by the ridiculous cost, I build my own using an iPod touch, Pebble Watch, and a headset, the total cost of which was about $400. The custom software will allow him to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and zoom from the iPhone/iPods camera using the watch as a control. These features can greatly improve what a person with severe visually disabilities are able to see and fraction of the cost.
I have an EPIC collection of ridiculous hats in my closet that I've accumulated over the years. And sadly, most of then never get worn (although to be honest, some should never see the light of day again). So this year I decided to bust out the best of them and wear a different hat every month - and of course take a terribly shameless selfie for each!
As part of the 2015 NASA SpaceApps Challenge, we interviewed a number of professional and amateur astronomers from around the world in order to identify the most prevailing problems and needs when acquiring timely notifications and data regarding transient astronomical events (supernovae, gamma and x-ray pulses from neutron stars and black holes, etc). Based on their feedback, we created a Feedly-like application that would allow astronomers to access and be alerted to up-to-date events from data sources that would normally have to be accessed manually via a web browser. Our demo included live data from the NASA CRTS survey and GCN network and included integration with the Pebble smartwatch.
After the success of last year's Portal Christmas Tree, which was originally inspired by Ryan Kelly's original tree on io9.com, I needed to one-up myself this year. And as luck would have it, one of my best friends just happened to move into the place directly below mine this year, so we had the perfect set-up for a one-of-a-kind CO-OP Portal Christmas tree setup.
This was inspired by Ryan Kelly’s amazing Portal Christmas Tree, which I read about last year on io9.com and agreed that it was, indeed, absolutely genius. So when my roommate told me she was going to toss out her old fake Christmas tree, I convinced her to let me create a Portal Tree of my own, but gave me only five days to do it before she tossed the tree off the balcony. As a result, the photos were kind of rushed during construction, but here it is!
Inspired by Ryan McFarlan's fantastic Instructible on how to create a wallet from an old computer keyboard, I added my own spin and created a credit card holder made from the same material. Being thin and durable, it makes for a interesting and practical way to carry your cards without a bulky wallet.
Inspired by fantastic instructible on how to create a wallet from an old computer keyboard, I added my own spin and created a credit card holder made from the same material. Being thin and durable, it makes for a interesting and practical way to carry your cards without a bulky wallet.
The hallway in our apartment has always been kind of creepy. It's long and narrow, the floor is uneven, and it's poorly lit. When we first moved in, the light flickered like something out of a horror movie. But by placing them end to end down the entire length of the hallway - on both sides of the hallway - we essentially open up our dark, narrow, and downright spooky hallway infinitely on either side, allowing light to bounce around more easily and light up the whole room.
Using high-altitude a atmospheric balloon capable or reaching the stratosphere, we captured HD footage of the curvature of the earth with the blackness of space behind it from over 100,000 feet.
After launching our first balloon back in August, we received a call from a farmer named Leonard in Newton, ON who had found our balloon capsule in his corn field in late October. We travelled up there on Saturday and retrieved everything - INCLUDING THE VIDEO!
Halloween is my favorite time of year. Same goes for both my roommates. So for our halloween party we went all out and decorated the hell out of the apartment - AGAIN!
Using a high-altitude atmospheric balloon capable or reaching the stratosphere, we intended to capture HD footage of the curvature of the earth with the blackness of space behind it from over 100,000 feet. Unfortunately, the phone overheated on the way down.
Roamin Gnome, my 2" garden gnome travels the world with me so I can take photos of him in front of landmarks and attractions whenever I visit a new city. This gnome has seen more of the world than the average person.
Halloween is my favorite time of year. Same goes for both my roommates. So for our halloween party we went all out and decorated the hell out of the appartment!
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From the ball pit to the near-space balloon to the Roamin’ Gnome that travels the world with me, check out photos from all my current projects!
A brick-built rendition of the mind-bending Bulging Checkerboard optical illusion attributed to Akiyoshi Kitaoka. One of the theories for why our brains process this illusion in the way they do is that the brain misinterprets the space between the smaller dots and their closest corners as LINES. But because they are slightly offset between the two colors, your brain thinks they should be bending or tilted because of the margin between the dot and the edge. "our brains interpret these margins as lines, skewing our perception, changing the apparent angle of intersection of the square borders. Instead of all right angles, some apparently becoming acute, some obtuse."
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With final Star Wars film coming out this season PLUS the epic Mandalorian series, it only seemed fitting to do a Star Wars Christmas Tree. The top of the tree is being blown up with the green laser from the Death Star directly above it (get it? Because it's a star? Yeah you get it). It also features some ominously floating Star Destroyers. All the pieces are hung using fishing line. Also, all the ornaments are X-wings and TIE Fighters and other ships from the series.
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For FanExpo and Halloween this year I decided to do a Punk Rock Darth Vader costume. Most of the punk stuff was easy enough to find. The trickiest bit was drilling the holes into the helmets and attaching the spiky rivets. My friend also did a Punk Rock Boba Fett so I did the helmet up for him too.
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I've been slowly working on the backyard at my new little house in Orillia. It's really coming together!
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Tried my hand at creating some distressed-looking wooden shelves using metal piping. Pretty happy with the results!
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This year's Christmas tree was inspired by the not-so-good Venom movie. The intent was to make it look as if the Venom Symbiote was attempting to absorb and merge with the tree, lifting off the floor in the process and mimicking the pine needle structures of the tree itself in the process.
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I built an iPhone/iPod Touch app and companion app for the Pebble Watch (and Apple Watch coming soon) that works with a Google Cardboard headset to digitally enhance the sight of people who are visually impaired. My father is nearly blind and we were looking at a similar product by eSight, but they charge $15,000 USD for their headset. Frustrated by the ridiculous cost, I build my own using an iPod touch, Pebble Watch, and a headset, the total cost of which was about $400. The custom software will allow him to adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and zoom from the iPhone/iPods camera using the watch as a control. These features can greatly improve what a person with severe visually disabilities are able to see and fraction of the cost.
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I have an EPIC collection of ridiculous hats in my closet that I've accumulated over the years. And sadly, most of then never get worn (although to be honest, some should never see the light of day again). So this year I decided to bust out the best of them and wear a different hat every month - and of course take a terribly shameless selfie for each!
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As part of the 2015 NASA SpaceApps Challenge, we interviewed a number of professional and amateur astronomers from around the world in order to identify the most prevailing problems and needs when acquiring timely notifications and data regarding transient astronomical events (supernovae, gamma and x-ray pulses from neutron stars and black holes, etc). Based on their feedback, we created a Feedly-like application that would allow astronomers to access and be alerted to up-to-date events from data sources that would normally have to be accessed manually via a web browser. Our demo included live data from the NASA CRTS survey and GCN network and included integration with the Pebble smartwatch.
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Rather than doing another Portal-themed tree this year, I decided to do something much easier and make a GoT-themed tree!
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Made mostly out of foam and ONE HUNDRED plastic cocktail swords, I constructed my very own Iron Throne for my iPhone.
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After the success of last year's Portal Christmas Tree, which was originally inspired by Ryan Kelly's original tree on io9.com, I needed to one-up myself this year. And as luck would have it, one of my best friends just happened to move into the place directly below mine this year, so we had the perfect set-up for a one-of-a-kind CO-OP Portal Christmas tree setup.
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This was inspired by Ryan Kelly’s amazing Portal Christmas Tree, which I read about last year on io9.com and agreed that it was, indeed, absolutely genius. So when my roommate told me she was going to toss out her old fake Christmas tree, I convinced her to let me create a Portal Tree of my own, but gave me only five days to do it before she tossed the tree off the balcony. As a result, the photos were kind of rushed during construction, but here it is!
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Inspired by Ryan McFarlan's fantastic Instructible on how to create a wallet from an old computer keyboard, I added my own spin and created a credit card holder made from the same material. Being thin and durable, it makes for a interesting and practical way to carry your cards without a bulky wallet.
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Inspired by fantastic instructible on how to create a wallet from an old computer keyboard, I added my own spin and created a credit card holder made from the same material. Being thin and durable, it makes for a interesting and practical way to carry your cards without a bulky wallet.
9 Photos
The hallway in our apartment has always been kind of creepy. It's long and narrow, the floor is uneven, and it's poorly lit. When we first moved in, the light flickered like something out of a horror movie. But by placing them end to end down the entire length of the hallway - on both sides of the hallway - we essentially open up our dark, narrow, and downright spooky hallway infinitely on either side, allowing light to bounce around more easily and light up the whole room.
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Using high-altitude a atmospheric balloon capable or reaching the stratosphere, we captured HD footage of the curvature of the earth with the blackness of space behind it from over 100,000 feet.
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After launching our first balloon back in August, we received a call from a farmer named Leonard in Newton, ON who had found our balloon capsule in his corn field in late October. We travelled up there on Saturday and retrieved everything - INCLUDING THE VIDEO!
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Halloween is my favorite time of year. Same goes for both my roommates. So for our halloween party we went all out and decorated the hell out of the apartment - AGAIN!
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Using a high-altitude atmospheric balloon capable or reaching the stratosphere, we intended to capture HD footage of the curvature of the earth with the blackness of space behind it from over 100,000 feet. Unfortunately, the phone overheated on the way down.
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My roommates and I built a ball pit on our balcony. Why? Because it's AWESOME!
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Roamin Gnome, my 2" garden gnome travels the world with me so I can take photos of him in front of landmarks and attractions whenever I visit a new city. This gnome has seen more of the world than the average person.
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Some of my web development work from years past. Will upload more soon!
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Halloween is my favorite time of year. Same goes for both my roommates. So for our halloween party we went all out and decorated the hell out of the appartment!
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The release party for RandomStage.
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