The Curious Engineer

We Saw a Chicken …

2014–2026

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2026 23

July 2026

  1. New font: NearlyQ
  2. in which I invent disemvowelling
  3. computer fire 1977!
  4. the vertical hold was off, I remember
  5. the mail to cro(y)don
  6. Early concern for Alan Longmuir
  7. unfortunate frog pyre
  8. the unfortunate princess
  9. quite an extensive record collection
  10. I want to be an e(n)gineer!
  11. plane tree trimmer
  12. New font: OCRmA
  13. Look Mum, No Socket!

June 2026

  1. Home-made Random Digits
  2. It’s baby skunk time again!
  3. New font: nic7pin
  4. New font: A73

May 2026

  1. New font: E73
  2. Twenty Past May
  3. The Broken BASIC Years
  4. ROT13 and other cypher silliness

February 2026

  1. Official SCRABBLE®Brand ANAGRAMS
  2. Crosstown is finally open and I am 😐

2025 21

December 2025

  1. Commodore PET startup sound (again)

November 2025

  1. Looking for: mystery conference call music, c.2008
  2. mz2synth: make sounds from images

October 2025

  1. The Epic of Mitorzp (fragment)
  2. Reading Atari ST floppy images on linux
  3. Tom Pittman’s “A Short Course in Programming” for the RCA 1802
  4. Raspberry Pi vs used Thin Client

August 2025

  1. The smell of smoking RIFA capacitors
  2. local wildlife
  3. img2blocks

July 2025

  1. lightsleep vs deepsleep on Raspberry Pi Pico
  2. For 4 MB ESP32-S3 users

May 2025

  1. Just before the Extinction

April 2025

  1. it’s white sucker time!
  2. plotter stuff on that Brother printer

March 2025

  1. SparkFun Retired Products Archive Reference

February 2025

  1. Snow-loving Solar Marble Machine

January 2025

  1. MicroPython Benchmarks
  2. The 100 Doors Problem, on a very small computer
  3. Parallel MicroPython Benchmarking
  4. Trumpeter swan got harmonics

2024 8

November 2024

  1. BASIC-52 on tiny CH552 boards via Linux

July 2024

  1. Raccoon kit dojo
  2. Cheap NeoPixels at the Dollar Store

June 2024

  1. Brother Canada laser cartridge return label

March 2024

  1. Thousand Days: Concept

February 2024

  1. Crickets in February

January 2024

  1. We used to have to *wait* for our memes …
  2. “… that Chinese instruction manual font”

2023 14

December 2023

  1. The Potato

November 2023

  1. can we…?

September 2023

  1. Autumn in Canada: NAPLPS
  2. The glorious futility of generating NAPLPS in 2023

July 2023

  1. SYN6288 TTS board from AliExpress
  2. Adding speech to MMBasic
  3. Markedly less success with three TTS boards from AliExpress

June 2023

  1. SYN-6988 Speech with MicroPython
  2. Welcome to Trash Panda City
  3. Speech from Python with the SYN6988 module
  4. baby skunks!

May 2023

  1. A terrible guide to singing with DECtalk
  2. Using the IBM Wheelwriter 10 Series II Typewriter as a printer
  3. The Joy of BirdNetPi

2022 15

December 2022

  1. Edwin Morgan’s “The Computer’s First Christmas Card”

November 2022

  1. MicroPython on the Seeed Studio Wio Terminal: it works!

September 2022

  1. broken box is crying

August 2022

  1. MicroPython MIDI mayhem (kinda)
  2. INA219 Current Sensor and MicroPython

July 2022

  1. Kennedy Station roads are open to bikes again!
  2. It works! It works!
  3. Mystery lockdown phone message
  4. The Quite Rubbish Clock, mk.2

May 2022

  1. Hydraulic Tiles

March 2022

  1. Canada’s longest running radio program is wrong!
  2. Adding RGB LEDs to an illuminated arcade button
  3. you can colour this in if you want to

February 2022

  1. More Magic Designer Nonsense
  2. Slightly imperfect Hoot-Nanny/Magic Designer simulation

2021 51

December 2021

  1. A new old calendar
  2. looks like your dodgy uncle
  3. I (U+1F494, BROKEN HEART) UTF-8

November 2021

  1. I spent all of yesterday calculating circular key grids …
  2. one perfect cayenne
  3. Autumn in Canada: PicoMite version
  4. p-touch Pico pin labels
  5. Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: slides and thermals

October 2021

  1. Neep Lantern 2021
  2. Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: initial performance
  3. Modding an Adafruit PIR for 3.3 volts
  4. Lentil Soup

September 2021

  1. Another Raspberry Pi Pico language: MMBasic

August 2021

  1. gecko at the watering hole, forever
  2. Some okay CMYK results from DrawingBot, finally …
  3. Snowy, after Paul Carter
  4. for Paul Carter, after 15 years

July 2021

  1. detail from a million step random walk
  2. Tetris for Applesoft BASIC
  3. Raspberry Pi Meetup: Touch Sensors
  4. digging the BlueSCSI
  5. GTALUG Lightning Talk: Pages → Searchable PDF (→ archive.org)
  6. Powering a Cambridge Z88 with a MT3068 module
  7. niche 68K Mac emulation needs

June 2021

  1. I think I remember this music video
  2. Colourful Alligator Clips
  3. Pied Beauty, ya pie
  4. NO SIGNAL
  5. Raspberry Pi Pico with TTP223 Touch Sensor
  6. Directing, 2003-08-14 Toronto
  7. CardKB mini keyboard with MicroPython

May 2021

  1. An hour of Pink Noise
  2. The cheapest Micro SD card interface in the world
  3. cp2up.sh — fits the important part of Canada Post print labels two per sheet
  4. Endless screaming in URL
  5. Happy Birthday Alvin Lucier
  6. Applied Futility: Re-creating RAND’s ‘A Million Random Digits’

April 2021

  1. Delicate tracings from a terrible PRNG
  2. as I lait me down to sleep

March 2021

  1. Niche Knowledge: Z80 parallel port SD card on Zeta2
  2. ZX81 40th Anniversary
  3. Seeeduino XIAO simple USB volume control with CircuitPython

February 2021

  1. Nyan Cat, except it gets faster — RTTTL on the Raspberry Pi Pico
  2. Visualizing PWM
  3. Raspberry Pi Pico: DS18x20 in MicroPython
  4. Quick labelled Fritzing Raspberry Pi Pico layout
  5. Presentation: Getting Started with MicroPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico
  6. SeeedStudio Wio Terminal

January 2021

  1. Thursday Morning Gravity Wells
  2. Osculating Circles
  3. Book: Fortran techniques with special reference to non-numerical applications (1972)

2020 125

December 2020

  1. CMHC model house designs, 1947–1978
  2. TIMTOWTDI ’70
  3. making Apple II cassette audio using the Epple-II emulator
  4. bench64: a new BASIC benchmark index for 8-bit computers
  5. Raspberry Pi Meetup tonight: the SeedStudio Wio Terminal

November 2020

  1. Winnipeg & The Forks

October 2020

  1. micro:bit croc clip keeper
  2. IKEA TERTIAL tripod mount
  3. Absurdly prescriptive but helpful Dupont connector instructable …
  4. memo to self: trivial HP-GL → GCode converter
  5. Three-colour Penrose P2 tiles

September 2020

  1. card for my mother-in-law, who is feeling a bit isolated right now #glint
  2. Arduino Nano “Dead Bug” Case

August 2020

  1. Stand for PROTODOME’s 4000AD chiptune album
  2. Glint
  3. calculator for engineering nerds

July 2020

  1. speech on Raspberry Pi: espeak-ng
  2. The Mandelbrot Set, before Mandelbrot
  3. yet another homage …

June 2020

  1. MicroPython on the BrainPad Classic/BP2
  2. godspeed, Edouard LeBlanc
  3. Mood
  4. virtual potato print
  5. mornin’
  6. groundhog!
  7. terminal colour silliness with Python
  8. groundhog helps with the pruning
  9. Monch
  10. mandala with chips
  11. fortran made a stripey one
  12. chips with everything
  13. Röhrensound
  14. “No Yoda Printing Here”
  15. we’re in for some weather
  16. tongue elaters

May 2020

  1. Dang: broken rail on my Brooks saddle
  2. seemed like a good idea at the time
  3. Flowers can’t mask sadness when your favourite coffee hang is gone forever
  4. It’s all too horrible / adorable
  5. WeAct F411 + MicroPython + NeoPixels
  6. today’s collage
  7. heigh ho the light goes in
  8. @makersmakingchange Wobble Switch built! #imadedit
  9. Canaduino STM32 boards with MicroPython
  10. Well done, neighbour. Well done.
  11. It never was, was it?
  12. dedbrik
  13. MicroPython on the terrible old ESP8266-12 Development Board
  14. super-special serial port standards
  15. Finally got perfect C86 hairstyle – only 34 years too late
  16. necessary video call accessory

April 2020

  1. AWW YISS 67% OFF EASTER CHOCOLATE!!!1!
  2. some moody morning shit or other
  3. SimStapler© Simulator
  4. SimStapler© Simulator – in real life! Thanks to @leeborg_ for the inspiration!
  5. We have baby bunnies in the garden! #squee
  6. Rainbow Moose
  7. rainbow moose detail
  8. delicate colours
  9. morning walk pool
  10. vic park henge moment
  11. lots of whirly LED domes
  12. Today’s achievement: make my 3d printer sound like a washing machine
  13. Compiling Kermit on modern Linux
  14. Single board PDP-8: take 2 …
  15. Unloved cheesewagons in the pouring rain
  16. Okay, this better work …
  17. Mockingbird in the Rain
  18. Extreme Sinclair QL Nostalgia
  19. Salt butter crust
  20. Indifferent Salad with Cheezies
  21. disco eggdog
  22. PROTODOME’s wonderful chiptunes: how to play them on your own ATtiny85 chips
  23. moar nerrrdy shytte #attiny85

March 2020

  1. 0.8g of amalgam fell out my head today
  2. sunday morning chiptunes
  3. I maded it: TRex Solder 3rd Hand
  4. Russian baked beans are refined
  5. Accessible Gaming buttons are done!
  6. moar switches
  7. building switches
  8. port union, just past dawn
  9. Doily
  10. it is eggdog 🥚+ 🐕 eggdog
  11. a tower crane at that awkward stage
  12. You could almost type RUN”DISC on it …
  13. things that fit together in a pleasing manner

February 2020

  1. inversion from burnaby mountain
  2. Congealed accursèd souls, like in Lincoln in the Bardo
  3. a bad case of tentacles
  4. pierrot dismay at egregious glitter
  5. I feel so seen … from 1814
  6. FreeCAD on Raspberry Pi 4
  7. Here goes …
  8. got a bit more gothy than I expected
  9. No Yoda heads on the Prusa
  10. World’s smallest retrocomputer
  11. Polyphemus Chromatic Quintet sing ACID JAZZ
  12. I do like my contrasting colours … #3dprinting
  13. incorrect cheese praxis

January 2020

  1. Rendering XAC labels legible with dark blue crayon then vinyl eraser
  2. the smitten mitten tree
  3. a bad scene, a worse infographic
  4. @wa_feltsculpture show and tell at @akinprojects
  5. they might notice this, though #thereifixedit #3dprinting
  6. Do you think anyone will notice? #stealth #3dprinting #oopsibrokeit #furniture
  7. The last remaining piece of the Canadian Wheat Board
  8. more difficult that it looks #toyhacking
  9. the glow
  10. Pedro waits for The Ball
  11. I think they’re on to us … #dollarstore #assistivetechnology
  12. goodbye X10, hello TRÅDFRI …
  13. this is why I did wind power instead
  14. 💩-adjacent donut
  15. Workspace wall
  16. wrinkle #plottertwitter
  17. doggo waits
  18. I was today years old when I first bought Legal size paper for a bureaucratic application …
  19. For completeness: Level 9 “Snowball” bitmap font
  20. go home ruler you’re drunk
  21. Drips
  22. Eero: sorry, man …
  23. giant rabbits shop amongst us
  24. don’t mind me, just modelling an actual size lo-poly version of the St Louis arch in OpenSCAD …
  25. Beatnik Boar

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December 2019

  1. jbl face #glaikit #pareidolia
  2. he snoöz
  3. rooftop reflecting pool
  4. The Original Milkshake Duck (replica)
  5. a friendly pupper
  6. keurig plays keek #pareidolia
  7. Hangin’ with the ghosts of Capone and Truman
  8. Jewell is just showing off
  9. Spinwriter thimble
  10. The *original* hard rock café …
  11. tired hearts intertwine
  12. The coolest font (when I was 15, that is)
  13. Adding the date to Sony Mavica FD-91 images
  14. A friend is worried about the visual impact an offshore wind farm will have on his house. This is a 3D printed scale model for viewing at arm’s length
  15. Maud’s kitties
  16. the decade that taste forgot
  17. If I’m gonna be stuck in a hotel room with a 3d printer, at least I could prototype some assistive tech
  18. mystical toastscape
  19. Save money, buy misery: cheap STM32 boards

November 2019

  1. Schotter on a Tek 4010
  2. Well, someone did ask for this … but I don’t think it will work very well
  3. uh, no
  4. a hidden dome
  5. All of the Argos Catalogues
  6. Taxman – a BASIC game from 1973
  7. Six Bog Rolls: an installation

October 2019

  1. “Thanks, I hate it!” is a valid aesthetic #AssistiveBlecch
  2. Nionics Atto – Arduino on a dime #smol
  3. at the sign of the pleasingly spicy dinner
  4. for symmetry’s sake
  5. getting a real 80s vibe from this batch
  6. crude lithophane with OpenSCAD
  7. Crushing It (Your Head, That is) in Commerce Court
  8. it’ll be a lovely city when it’s finished
  9. brownian
  10. While red leaves remain
  11. Lovely automata: bbcbasicbot
  12. semibuilding
  13. proper fish tea
  14. knotwork + strapwork
  15. water pukin’ doggo park
  16. A little too heavy on the support, this one
  17. Thick lines can only cover some problems …

September 2019

  1. For a birthday card; 3d printed; 4 filaments; all in OpenSCAD; Prusa i3 Mk3s
  2. Weird thrift-store find: homebrew CD player
  3. constrictor
  4. apples for the marmots
  5. The Bass Pro Shops (home-)School of Architecture
  6. Smol squoil, Big noms
  7. big bug
  8. wind power
  9. mouselet
  10. bigbird
  11. tbh I don’t think the scan did any justice to how shiny this is *at” *all* …
  12. Silver and Gold
  13. It’ll do, I suppose
  14. Trying a Moroccan pattern this time …

August 2019

  1. I’ve made worse things
  2. Some geometric strapwork in OpenSCAD
  3. I don’t believe in wasting build plate area, especially when I have 110 of these to make
  4. can’t catch my breakfast
  5. The green inside Aleppo soap
  6. Perfect accidental timing of a filament change
  7. Rusty-compass construction in crayon while waiting for the filament to finish
  8. Lakeshore Rebar Retirement Community
  9. temple grove to industrie
  10. Slice
  11. ♫yoga then stone ants and I are waving♫
  12. Kitteh
  13. more than ordinary despair

July 2019

  1. yer morning brutalism
  2. The trees are especially pink and fuzzy this morning
  3. mystery green thing (mwowm, mwowm …)
  4. a mink stops to think
  5. happy monday
  6. birb from below
  7. Decongestant bike trail by the Mentholyptus plant
  8. More clicky things
  9. smol train
  10. PLOTPOURRI rides again
  11. Sometimes you need a qr-code for your booth
  12. Oh dear …

June 2019

  1. moist raccoon
  2. a bit misty
  3. Whitecraigs
  4. Scone interlude …
  5. Finally knocked this feisty little pattern into shape
  6. A wee English fiver featuring a particularly grumpy Mekon
  7. Full Scottish at the FBI, made while the chef whistled along to Portishead
  8. Well, that sucks … All that remains of the Hoover factory
  9. The familiar appalling taste of home
  10. In local horse news …
  11. Old Stomping Grounds, no.1: Rouken Glen
  12. 0.01 mNiagara
  13. Back in the Old Country
  14. A Splendid Bun
  15. TPUG Library CD – disk image contents, mostly

May 2019

  1. Kind of embarrassed to admit how long it took me to work out this absurdly simple pattern
  2. wörship
  3. shingles
  4. Printing two colour assistive tech at the @makersmakingchange booth at @caot.ace conference #prusai3mk3
  5. Spring Raindrop Switches for @makersmakingchange
  6. Brisket’s good
  7. Six Raindrop Switch bodies in translucent PET-G
  8. Local ‘Q
  9. Unnecessary Support
  10. Possibly Painless Network Printing from your Raspberry Pi
  11. PET-G is so pretty …
  12. Pretty PET-G on the Prusa

April 2019

  1. not the getaway car
  2. Everybody’s walkin’ the dinosaur …
  3. Just what 2019 needs: the QBasic Online Help Index
  4. gleeful bash scripting: contrived GCD function
  5. Digital Photo Archaeology: featuring hardware DRM from the crypt
  6. 1998 Digital Camera Quality

March 2019

  1. HSV(ish) Colour Wheel in Python
  2. Invented right here: the T-Nut
  3. glowmoose
  4. mini-moose
  5. Quirkey chording keyboard: key fit test

February 2019

  1. Symmetric chamfered extrusion in OpenSCAD
  2. The Quirkey: chording USB keyboard
  3. Tact & Buttons
  4. a good fren … #doge
  5. Joy
  6. spideree

January 2019

  1. Thanks, @ultimaker – @makersmakingchange is at #atia2019
  2. this is what the people want
  3. by @morenap3d
  4. It’s the sulfur compounds
  5. gold storm
  6. I miss that fish

2018 154

December 2018

  1. Sunset over the Missouri
  2. Constructible cushion pattern
  3. holiday cone
  4. faintly festive traffic cone
  5. A real graph
  6. They won’t miss our table at the next Mappy Hour …
  7. Or not; not working works too
  8. 2005 called …
  9. Cake for Breakfast Day …
  10. ephemera: Government of Canada “Action Request” – phone memo slip

November 2018

  1. Modernist tower block, or Macintosh G5 CPU cooler?
  2. non-aesthetic gears
  3. hypnotapir
  4. who isn’t?
  5. cultured blort
  6. if it fits, i sits #roti
  7. The nearby derailment
  8. Sandy Island Beach
  9. Salmon River

October 2018

  1. Centre construction, Palace of Westminster tower clock
  2. Every day at ProtoLab #weirdos
  3. TABBY.PRN
  4. Yeah, about that pouch of baby food you dropped in the parking lot …
  5. An egg. Because _egg_
  6. Colour Match
  7. Guardtoad
  8. Max
  9. further’s end
  10. 𒐳 / ༳ == ( ⑽ – 𐹭 ) * ( 𒐲 / 𐅉 ), of course
  11. SBC6120 build: day 1(-ish)

September 2018

  1. Now *that’s* a Lego bridge …
  2. Spoiler Alert: I don’t know this Acura driver, but I like what they’re saying …
  3. Squozemobile
  4. it’s a godawful small affair
  5. Too hot for this one today
  6. protec from the roumd
  7. So shiny, so gooey #abs #acetone
  8. The Modern Hectographer
  9. Gaze upon the clarity of this hectograph plate ye mighty and despair
  10. Handsome stripey one (Platycryptus undatus, ♂)
  11. eben’s bbc basic programmes

August 2018

  1. Best one yet – clear PLA
  2. Is it summer still?
  3. Small things that make me happy …
  4. 1000 Candles (detail)
  5. Colours for Mary
  6. I’m being very mature about tomorrow’s surgery
  7. Sun’s up by the Mentholyptus factory
  8. Comprehensive Uncle TechTip Simulator
  9. One for your Green Room, perhaps?
  10. Edward, Grace or String?
  11. morning mushies
  12. A Lamp Fit for (a) Prince
  13. From One, Many
  14. Using SI prefixes/multipliers in spreadsheets
  15. last of the speed machines
  16. Montréal from above

July 2018

  1. missst …
  2. Repurposing old IKEA table lamps with my own shade designs
  3. Old hard-drive magnet + 3d printed handle = *serious* fridge magnet
  4. Remarkably pointy
  5. vase mode
  6. I guess this is what I get for storing pointed tools in a cut-glass beer stein …
  7. morning stripes
  8. Thingiverse Customizer: a tiny guide
  9. These turned out nicely
  10. Addem Labs peelable flexible circuit demo
  11. “space acid poisoning …”
  12. Great Fencote, 10 cm contours; 50 m scale
  13. Things Got Weird Real Fast
  14. moar 10PRINT nonsense

June 2018

  1. Anonymous googlybomber, I salute you!
  2. Waveplot: interference contours
  3. Interference Contours
  4. The Walper brings their coffee A-game
  5. fell off the back of a lorry (lit.)
  6. I’m extremely *not* here for this aesthetic
  7. Brenda’s Iron Sledge
  8. iz mai corns …
  9. Look, I’d never seen one of these spiders before. Humour me …
  10. Rob Manuel’s British Council Tile / Bus Fabric Sim
  11. good work, little excavator!
  12. Just a wee shade of erosion on the Taylor-Massey
  13. Design perfection … perfected
  14. Music for Tinning 25 Soldering Irons
  15. okayyy …
  16. HEAD MAN

May 2018

  1. am now round_boi
  2. Deliberately badly printed, surprisingly pleasing
  3. Weekend nutrition sorted
  4. I think the 3d printer wanted to make a model of the Chernobyl Elephant’s Foot
  5. Ooh, a summer migrant in colourful plumage!
  6. my surprised face
  7. Turkish Irn Bru …
  8. Apple IIgs: before and after graphics
  9. Scott Hutchison
  10. Peak Tree Event
  11. OpenSCAD might not’ve been the best choice here
  12. Dovetail Guides
  13. Strictly for research purposes only …
  14. Better at hand nothing tripod: when trade show tables are just too thick …
  15. oh no it isn’t
  16. DISHEARTENING SNOWPILE
  17. real-life tonka truck
  18. Uhoh … Danish Pastry House

April 2018

  1. I said I would, if I ever found it …
  2. %e2%9d%a4
  3. I think my brim settings were a little too high …
  4. Flashprint except without the prints falling over
  5. 20 hours and 92% done …
  6. Eugene’s fishing line header hack for Raspberry Pi Zero
  7. A few seconds from a 12- hour print job
  8. a brave wee one
  9. In the very unlikely event that you want to repair a broken handset socket on a Princess telephone …
  10. You say ‘homage’, I say ripoff: cakeordeathsite’s What a Life!

March 2018

  1. ‘cos even Cthulhu can use some assistance sometimes
  2. Ringing like 1984: Western Electric “Princess”
  3. Rose plots
  4. In an otherwise blank concrete wall …
  5. Print-a-fish
  6. Dollar-Store Rosette
  7. CRAIG makes the grade …
  8. Parametric pen-grips – OpenSCAD ftw

February 2018

  1. birb chirper v2.0
  2. More lines and curves
  3. bourgoin 38
  4. western electric marbling
  5. When you fix a thing and it just works …
  6. Bet you can’t get the film, though
  7. commodore pet startup chime
  8. Shrove
  9. This one’s been nipping my head for *years*
  10. Plotting a card …
  11. Quite enough of this sort of thing #plotter
  12. Before tightening filament feed on left, after on right
  13. Building (but not necessarily running) Amiberry on Raspberry Pi 3
  14. CP/M 3.1 manuals as PDF
  15. Now *that’s* a public library …

January 2018

  1. This is going to get messy …
  2. Hopeful koi
  3. You Have Already Been Replaced
  4. Hello yes I’m just repairing Arduino Micros
  5. pre-amalgamation bookplate, East York Public Library
  6. Raspblocks: Blocks-based Python coding for Raspberry Pi
  7. It got difficult to take any more away from this
  8. Printing a bottle opener for @makersmakingchange
  9. short sci-fi: “Mission: Survival”, by Curt Fischer – from Boy’s Life magazine, August 1988
  10. Glaikitron 3000
  11. Spods
  12. hexabubbly
  13. Now Here
  14. This is why we can’t have nice things
  15. Pretty much my impression of the decor in the new subway extension
  16. 7 by 7

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December 2017

  1. Chilling
  2. not-very-good MakeCode scratchpad
  3. For what we are about to receive…
  4. loblawcard.ca
  5. Circuit Playground Express Chord Guitar
  6. The car grew a protective shell on I-70
  7. Hello from Terrence
  8. Circuit Playground Express Remote-Controlled Fart Machine
  9. Synthesizing simple chords with sox
  10. main stage, Birbfest ’17
  11. Six Boxes
  12. MQTT Talk tonight
  13. It’s not just computers at World of Commodore …
  14. the warm glow of nixies …
  15. 3D printed back cover for 6502 badge

November 2017

  1. The not-even-remotely-dread Pirate Breadbeard
  2. A bit breezy where we run out of Canada
  3. A pita took the corner too fast and blew out
  4. True Sounds of the Halifax Donair
  5. this turkey is børken
  6. Soltec HM-102S: unboxing a 30 year old multimeter
  7. Didn’t this place used to be named after some guy? #dunno #someloser
  8. The All-Seeing Googly Eyes of Lisa Frank
  9. soldering stand for digital non-burnination
  10. Red Rover’s First Flower
  11. my last one
  12. rainbow cables
  13. I am heckin big sidewinder #snek on srs mission hss hss
  14. Ubu Imprimatur
  15. Entirely #smol retrogaming rig

October 2017

  1. fritzing: Generic 4×4 Keypad part
  2. Amazing technological advances …
  3. Teensy USB Keypad
  4. SuperLanterns Last All Summer Long
  5. I think we might be in the suburbs …
  6. Creating a systemd user service on your Raspberry Pi
  7. IT’S CAAAAAAAAPS LOOOOOOOCK DAAAAAAAAYYYY!!!
  8. Combined Restart / Shutdown Button for Raspberry Pi
  9. etobicoke gloamings
  10. TPUG talk tonight: Commodore Retro Gaming on the Raspberry Pi
  11. old shoe new rainbow
  12. Raspberry Pi combined reboot/shutdown button demo
  13. taking the whole proto-plate thing a bit far …
  14. Why yes, I have been obsessively optimizing this GIF for most of the day …
  15. I am … THE INSULATOR!
  16. The Chirping Tree of Bloor West Village
  17. *ALL* of the memory!
  18. I miss the patterns old computers used to make on the screen when they crashed
  19. Important research: was the Eudora “New Mail” chime from Ren & Stimpy’s “LOG”?
  20. MS Word will break your links!
  21. One can never go wrong with a prototyping plate …
  22. i like pencils
  23. Most of the Logic Apple II Library now on archive.org
  24. oh william …
  25. toaster, kinda; flying, kinda
  26. good moon tho
  27. kinda flying toaster
  28. “grow fins”
  29. Installing the Pimoroni OnOff Shim the hard way
  30. Installing the Versatile Commodore Emulator (VICE) on Raspberry Pi

September 2017

  1. BASIC on the 6502 badge
  2. 6502 badge is go!
  3. There’s a chance I may regret this …
  4. I do believe the expression “crazy delicious” is in order
  5. Not mockup #edgelit
  6. Next up on the workbench #6502
  7. Mockup
  8. importing Applesoft BASIC programs on the Apple IIe
  9. The first of many … Logic Apple II library disks
  10. teh future!!!!1!
  11. It’s nice here with a view of the trees

August 2017

  1. Glowforging …
  2. Pinhole pic taken during a storm, 2003
  3. They’re Paratha Roti Beef Bulgogi Tacos, of course
  4. This Sign Advertises Nihilism
  5. Oh Ma there’s a hole in my head …
  6. Narwhals Are Helping NASA Understand Melting Ice and Rising Seas
  7. Oh hai …
  8. Big old scanned manuals to small old scanned manuals
  9. I see the Nope Flies are back again
  10. Arp-style readymade
  11. tracing in progress
  12. I didn’t expect that …
  13. 175 Speakers (and no-one a-listenin)
  14. If I were to choose a Catcher in the Rye job, it would be folding boxes
  15. floofponger in clover
  16. big train get out of my road
  17. a quiet one
  18. it always was the better computer …
  19. gpiozero is rather good

July 2017

  1. sometimes we don’t only get dog-strangling vine in the garden …
  2. donzerly
  3. You may think you’re cool, but you’ll never be playing-tuba-and-fiddle-simultaneously cool
  4. inky phat draws a design
  5. Sometimes, the Madness is strong
  6. augers pastorale
  7. two-colour EPD displays are so pretty …
  8. lo-res tiling
  9. protoconkers
  10. multispectral
  11. Rockin and blinkin to Simon I …
  12. Keep the Morphy Richards flying
  13. It’s amazing what you find when you rootle about in the “USB (misc)” drawer #pihub
  14. happy fourth of july

June 2017

  1. Painfully bright in RL
  2. Googly Wooglington
  3. maximal annoyance with the BBC micro:bit and MicroPython
  4. Super-secret library nerrrd hideout
  5. A little pattern akin to the Eid jollification going on in the neighbourhood
  6. chipmunking
  7. hhheeellllllooo sssnnnaaaiiilll
  8. With Love from The Subterranean Squad
  9. Keeping it 2½D
  10. Easy Raspberry Pi framebuffer screenshots with raspi2png
  11. Bourgoin Nº 170 (w/i/p)
  12. VM-CLAP1 👏 sensor + gpiozero on Raspberry Pi
  13. Clap Sensor part for Fritzing
  14. rustic foosball
  15. Headless Raspberry Pi + VNC: useful resolution
  16. I know how I prefer mine …
  17. 60¢ in 🇨🇦 nickels + skate bearing
  18. #ff0000 af
  19. If I was going to design a spinner anyway, at least I tried to make it not too hideous
  20. creature so smol
  21. a smol vole snoozes in the sun
  22. name of this city / forgotten transit proposal / i am not a number
  23. Nomz
  24. Nothing to see here

May 2017

  1. No circles were used …
  2. 😱🐇
  3. Foolish mortals: can’t you see that this is the Master Time Control Console?
  4. No more cruet-related mess for us!
  5. treefloof
  6. I still think this building looks like a ship from 8-bit Elite …
  7. “Stoked af!” quoth these (possibly) ravens
  8. Work in progress
  9. low sun
  10. Geode Morning!
  11. I wouldn’t eat that if I were you
  12. “Hello, is that the big-ass geode company?”
  13. No true Scotsman … would decline one of these
  14. just add cut and paste
  15. On the up and up
  16. Ogival form work
  17. Mystery tech of the ancient ones …

April 2017

  1. Lawren Harris eat yer heart out
  2. treeflowers
  3. I seem to remember this being like the logo of every Amiga software company ever
  4. i herd u liek saturation so i put saturation in ur saturation
  5. Unfair Jigsaw
  6. Despite a reputation for mechanical problems, the extended version established itself as the market leader
  7. Little Bridge
  8. Festive Nest with Ribbons
  9. More rainbows from silicon chips
  10. I don’t hold with that newfangled “miniature resistor” nonsense …
  11. The best rubble? We got it!
  12. dawntime buslight
  13. colouring pen cascade
  14. Simple — like, really simple — Arduino periodic timer with Brett’s MillisTimer library

March 2017

  1. μ̈ — the net-connected cowbell for your Internet of Tings … #arduinod17
  2. Heavy lifting on Eglinton
  3. Ah, the suburbs …
  4. Keypunch029 — for all your punched card font needs …
  5. just what you say
  6. Your Friday Rainbow Ruler
  7. Electrobunny really didn’t want to end up looking a little too _Make_ …
  8. how happily they go to their doom
  9. Dear 3D Printer, why do you insist on claiming you’re zeroed at z=30?
  10. In the unlikely event you need to represent Emoji in RTF using Perl …
  11. Pocket Eildon Hill (rustic edition) for homesick Borderers
  12. hidráulica tile query from metafilter
  13. I would, if everyone else hadn’t already
  14. “The Error Message as a bourgeois construct”

February 2017

  1. PoorFish, v2
  2. got my dot-matrix in the laser
  3. The Pocket DEC Pretender (PDP) Zero
  4. core dump
  5. Little Transformer House in the Mist
  6. Coxheads Stalk This Land
  7. TYPE BANG: First Person Shooter, 1975 style
  8. Library Hand – Disjoint
  9. The punctuation is a farce, the kerning is ropey – but here’s my attempt at Dana’s Library Hand
  10. Wheelsicles
  11. From the draft Transit Rider Style Manual
  12. In all weather …
  13. Enlarged to show texture
  14. a font for the person you’re just dotty about
  15. more geometry to colour in
  16. Simple tenfold jali screen based on @metmuseum original
  17. mnicmp: the DECwriter lives again!
  18. Scots Tablet, cooling
  19. why I should never be let out on the internet unsupervised
  20. Font work in progress: DECwriter style
  21. awaiting surgery
  22. u know it

January 2017

  1. From a simpler time
  2. big machines grazing
  3. Graphics for a nerrrdy project
  4. Apple II on Raspberry Pi
  5. Goodnight Twitter
  6. Raspberry Pi Zero: avoiding random network addresses in Gadget Mode
  7. Disapproving snow pile
  8. Can’t think of this as anything other than the Simon Quinlank Building #hobbyfools
  9. 🍩🍩🍩🍩🍩 at Birchmount and Ellesmere
  10. Demolition Dinos gnaw on the old sorting office #crosstown
  11. my new stamp
  12. pretty cold
  13. Shirakiku Ramune tastes surprisingly like Irn Bru
  14. There may have been a few Raspberry Pi Zero-related trips to Micro Center, yes
  15. If one should find oneself in the middle of the Mississippi River on a New Year’s Day …
  16. Bridge (large)

2016 252

December 2016

  1. The sad sight of a treed kite
  2. also known as “For Goodness’ Sake Cut It Off”
  3. 8x U+2764 “Heavy Black Heart” makes a 15th century Iznik (Turkey) floral design
  4. Cookies: Snowman, Boogeyman
  5. Mr Whiskers
  6. It seems that being under the blanket is an important part of playing Nintendo here
  7. Don’t you love it when capacitors do that?
  8. Emulating a Mac IIx on Raspberry Pi
  9. Terence the felt lion/daisy says “Hello” again
  10. when clowns barf
  11. The only surviving copy of the Futilist Manifesto
  12. festive salt patterns on the car
  13. Fun things you learn from old computers …
  14. pointy weather
  15. Cup
  16. Raw computing powerrr …
  17. cbmbasic for BASIC Computer Games
  18. Mac Classic II rev 2 re-capping
  19. Local doocot
  20. The First Program We Wrote
  21. Kinda got that disco/laser thing going on
  22. some OpenSCAD 2D SVG things for Josh …
  23. Low-poly Alhambra pattern
  24. The Shadows — “Rhythm & Greens” #except …
  25. Fish tank rainbow
  26. A Delicious Virtual Biscuit

November 2016

  1. Dreaming of endless fields to run in
  2. The drugs are especially potent this time of year
  3. Another PLA diffuser design of mine #reuleaux
  4. The Pearly King of Biscuitry
  5. in deep soapy bubble now
  6. We made books!
  7. Ice-clear PLA shade
  8. Clear PLA
  9. Learned this Alhambra pattern today
  10. Layout
  11. Waiting …
  12. 4 later
  13. Moar UNCLE …
  14. Observation Post
  15. Oh but I really think it is
  16. At Sarah’s opening
  17. This is important work we’re doing …

October 2016

  1. So-called random shuffle shows Halloween Industrial Complex influence
  2. They’d run out of the jerk chicken shawarma …
  3. littleflower
  4. … I know you’re the one
  5. mesmerizing
  6. Well, that worked …
  7. making an hourly chime with cron
  8. a milk door once
  9. First Print #Reach3D
  10. 10,000 pieces flying in close formation
  11. Hoping that it won’t all go bang
  12. Surprised RAMPS holder is surprised
  13. even the bugs in your code look more refined
  14. Carriage and hot end built …
  15. Fortran Coding Form
  16. I’m rather afraid that this was my idea …
  17. Futile Devices, pt 2940
  18. a good day to play this
  19. Wisdom
  20. HEED CANADIAN ADVICE BRICK
  21. So doge, very pocketchip, wow
  22. morningflowers
  23. Goodnight Moon Goodnight Jail Goodnight Inmates Everywhere
  24. Whee 2
  25. Muppet Treason
  26. Loaf of Whimsy
  27. The ice-creams of my youth
  28. Leaked prototype from the embattled Canadian handheld manufacturer

September 2016

  1. BlockTwo, a dreadful font
  2. All you need to know about highway driving in the GTA
  3. crepuscular grazers #deer #blurry
  4. Edge-lit numerals, manual demo
  5. Edge-lit acrylic numerals: first try
  6. Blinking on and off with the 74LS42
  7. but is it art?
  8. Primitive Doge
  9. I like them fine, thank you for asking
  10. ESP8266 BASIC is seriously neat!
  11. micro, a nice little text editor
  12. Moisture thataway
  13. Haddock & Chips, of course
  14. Looks like both of my 2416 display chips are dead, so here’s a picture
  15. All that was missing were my awesome Dope Wars scores from 2003
  16. When you see what Japanese glaze artists had for source material
  17. Lorne by the Breadlight
  18. It’s the Karaoke #xoxofest shuttle!
  19. Jalapeño ant-breath gives the Secret Aardvark away
  20. Sparkly!
  21. Bike does not rhyme with Nike. Also, where’s the chain at?
  22. I can’t see Toronto Hydro going for this in their enclosed space working guidelines
  23. ThreeFourTwoTwo
  24. Bricks & Mortar
  25. Snail on a (Giant) Tiger Tail

August 2016

  1. the old freezer baggie and Goo Gone trick
  2. acrylic backing, marker, wax paper #instagoth
  3. I made this paper
  4. typographer’s lament
  5. Forgot to plant sunflowers this year, but that didn’t stop this little one …
  6. le sigh …
  7. When doodles become unruly
  8. Not the best morning for a bike ride
  9. Frank? Bloody rude, more like
  10. File under “because I can”
  11. All the Colours We Have (for Paul Carter)
  12. Attempted skunk closeup, but Lil Stinky was having none of it
  13. Sun rise to cricket chorus
  14. Frieze! Art Deco Patrol!
  15. Wexfording …
  16. It has come to this, unfortunately
  17. This one was vexing the waxwings
  18. Ole Stripey Legs is back
  19. Your local condensing mist situation
  20. Misty light construction site

July 2016

  1. The morning after the parade.
  2. Stained glass window on the soul
  3. This was worth this morning’s Sharpie Hangover for sure
  4. Had its day in the sun
  5. cups(1)cake: toner low on lp #cakefail #stilltastythough
  6. We finally got the nice trains on line 2 #ttc
  7. Slightly artisanal test print of “cups(1)cake” motif for Linux in the Park
  8. Early morning gradall shot
  9. nerrrdy Bourgoin mini-zine
  10. right here right now
  11. Now that’s a headlamp.
  12. Another one from the late Jules B
  13. Bicycle-integrated nannertechnology #imhilarious
  14. Rudiments of Hiding (bunny edition)
  15. Beanbags, or plush protozoans?
  16. all your centroids
  17. Going down Broadview with only a coaster brake was “fun” …
  18. Hot car + gummies = tiffany nugget
  19. the typography
  20. Volunteering at the Maker Festival this morning #soldering #magicsmoke #makerfestivalto #cantgetthestaffthesedays
  21. no like
  22. It’s a car, but not as we know it
  23. Resting dino
  24. Mandatory Title: Waves of Bark & Light
  25. Gltchn
  26. Hiding in plain sight
  27. Fuzzy moths are snoozing
  28. Lake log

June 2016

  1. Ultimate #raspberrypi cooler … 480 grams of pure copper
  2. Always Pushing The Frontiers of Dorkiness So You Don’t Have To #hamradio #aprs
  3. A teasel in the sun
  4. Spectrum is Green!
  5. No idea which part of my brain this pattern crawled out of, but it’s okay in ink
  6. srs bzns
  7. So the Coo~Coo Raspberry Pi Zero case does work with acrylic!
  8. Something is Happening and I don’t know what It is
  9. The “Coo~Coo” Raspberry Pi Zero Case
  10. Neglected Hemisphere
  11. oh hai …
  12. Morning ear fuzz
  13. Ulam Spiral to 2¹⁶ #mathart
  14. And there was much clambering and chittering #squee
  15. chip roll frenzy
  16. ayaburnie!
  17. tfw …

May 2016

  1. Trams of Old Kansas City
  2. A skosh stormy
  3. Melty Sharktooth
  4. Pastorale
  5. Just an ordinary tree in the hydro corridor
  6. TwentyfourSixteen – a 17-segment alpha LCD font
  7. u need professional help i mean srsly #neep
  8. Future stylin’
  9. I don’t think they meant you to see the message from this angle
  10. Pen plotters: not just output devices …
  11. Now That’s What I Call Branding
  12. Runner up, Festival of [REDACTED] logo competition (1978)
  13. Clockwatching
  14. Ellen’s the real weirdo here
  15. Scripting Inkscape – kinda
  16. FifteenTwenty: now on Fontlibrary and github
  17. FifteenTwenty UltraLight: single-stroke OTF for CNC/plotting
  18. Maybe a bit more zalgo than I’d have liked, but it’s a work in progress
  19. That worked okay …
  20. Now, if only I had a barn to put it on …
  21. Making a barnstar …

April 2016

  1. a thing: i maded it
  2. FifteenTwenty: Commodore 1520 plotter font
  3. Retrofonting
  4. Max is in weekend mode
  5. Accidental laser welds
  6. Laser cut stencil work
  7. I think u got a jolt problem bro
  8. tfw …
  9. @eightlines caulks around the #wch2016 countdown clock – now with atomic clock synch!
  10. Stalling, twisting wind vanes (Current, by Awad & Rokeby)
  11. ‘Ello John, got a new …synchronous generator?
  12. Fluo glow acrylic: feels like the 90s
  13. No, I don’t know where those extra squares came from, either
  14. Make tracks
  15. Sayso Globord software archive
  16. Twelves & Fives

March 2016

  1. Big Orange Hand
  2. Frosty Rushes (Redwing Disturber)
  3. Remind me to find a better frisket material to hand-cut next time
  4. Building the Stick of Joy
  5. An afternoon with Ed ends predictably
  6. Not-even-remotely over-engineered retrogaming joystick
  7. Reflecting Pool
  8. Korean poster colour ftw
  9. Neep, you could up your moisturising regime a skosh
  10. The template worked better in theory
  11. Blue sky, spoiled
  12. Tenfold laser cut: first try
  13. Queen of the Nile, Queen of the Disco
  14. Broken Pen Girih: final colour
  15. My favourite word is “pigment”
  16. Clip clop! Here comes Decapitated Robin Hood on his new neck clogs
  17. Looks pretty narrow to me
  18. Broken Pen Girih: still wet, with frisket
  19. Broken Pen Girih

February 2016

  1. 3D Printing + metal leaf
  2. Don’t bend, Betty, use a brick
  3. [tɒk bɒks] — a tiny hardware speech synthesizer/TTS
  4. Design kinda works
  5. Hame-knitted mini-Sheep
  6. Max, official Dog of Protolab, waits by the not-radioactive fridge
  7. Twenty good reasons for renewable energy …
  8. Happy
  9. when minifigs attack
  10. Hershey Complex font – works (mostly)
  11. It’s not yellow, but Victorians knew to stay away from this wallpaper pattern
  12. It’s not just frozen pipes at -25°C
  13. Blort
  14. #logofail
  15. Hershey Writes Again
  16. Progress on Hershey font outlines
  17. Googly eyes add to the sense of anise …

January 2016

  1. It’s really the bees’ wax; they want you to buzz off
  2. knitted
  3. Sample book, freshly bound at the Asquith Press
  4. Not Here, Not Now, at least
  5. If only the world needed packaging for imaginary patent medicines …
  6. q absolves data sins and makes CSV queries easy
  7. It’s kind of nice when things come together in unexpected ways
  8. Spherical Snoozing Trash Panda
  9. If death is not the end …
  10. Works in progress
  11. Self-similar petals
  12. poetic wrong number
  13. That whole new year stamp thing …
  14. Little Woolly Dude, January 3
  15. Sugar Cookie and BBQ sauce
  16. Ill-advised mascot
  17. Buster’s had a bit much coffee
  18. Oh Reuleaux?

2015 203

December 2015

  1. Hand woven and Green …
  2. Not many trains today
  3. With an 11C, things stay calculated
  4. A Crookfur Boxing Day
  5. Good-enough-to-do ceiling pattern
  6. Big wheel
  7. Thanks again, Melrose …
  8. Hershey Rides Again
  9. Abbey
  10. Dog
  11. The Kelpies, again
  12. Aye We Do, So We Do
  13. Big Water Horses
  14. How About No (True) Scot? #irnbru #onesie #nopenopenope
  15. (Precariously) Balanced Diet
  16. And they all lived happily ever after
  17. The finished thing
  18. Auld Neep
  19. We need to talk about that light-fast inkjet ink, HP …
  20. midtown tram jali screen
  21. At the Canadian Minimalism Trade Show
  22. A Canadian Heresy
  23. Glowing walkways
  24. Kind Scarves
  25. Be Here Now
  26. Mudskipper
  27. … found!
  28. That’s the office all set for Festivus 2015 …

November 2015

  1. It’s still technically St Andrew’s Day, just …
  2. Moar work in progress …
  3. not much of anything really
  4. Trace transfer, ready to paint
  5. Drawn by Maurits Escher’s less-talented brother Earl
  6. sparkly!
  7. Ready to trace
  8. This needs more work, but …
  9. Spirals and gradients, but not quite a penç
  10. Part-done first attempt at halkar/tahrir painting
  11. Messages from an ancient civilisation
  12. Oh dear …
  13. GTALUG Lightning Talk(s): Mostly Searchable and Mini Printers
  14. My first attempt at gilding turned out like an ultramarine Clement Freud
  15. Rudimentary Gouache
  16. It gets hard to explain …
  17. No, Squirrel, the utility box is not your pizza stash

October 2015

  1. Portrait of the artist as a young neep
  2. Neep lantern for Halloween
  3. How can you tell that he’s young, Johann?
  4. When they say #FailBetter, I reply …
  5. Aga Khan Museum courtyard tiles, rough colour rendering
  6. Snoozing cuttlefish pretends to be a shell
  7. #donotwant
  8. The Real Change that Canadians* want
  9. It’s time for him to go!
  10. Work in progress …
  11. Dead Beastie Shell
  12. Accidental autumnal pattern
  13. That old fountain keeps on giving …
  14. The illusion of choice
  15. Too many frames and vanishing points
  16. Drunk Octopus *still* wants to fight you …
  17. Old school with old school digital camera

September 2015

  1. Alhambra puts a hurtin’ on
  2. The UP Express is positively *packed*
  3. Fountain decoration excerpt
  4. maybe I *do* want the Small Web back …
  5. If you’re going to design a drain …
  6. When the Doge-Hens Invaded Old London
  7. Free pop-up spider in every copy #iamabadperson
  8. And this is the *small* sandwich …
  9. Perhaps a wee lie down is in order
  10. Correct plating is essential
  11. Even the trees got the memo
  12. svgo: silently destroying creators’ rights since whenever
  13. always something under construction …
  14. Design based on tile work from a Sufi shrine in Multan, Pakistan
  15. Just Yer Basic Fractal Jali Screen, Nothing Fancy
  16. Inkscape: circles from a point and radius
  17. [relevant to my interests]
  18. Carrion squirrel, with bone
  19. evening
  20. Simple tools and techniques for making patterns with Inkscape
  21. Raspbian: Getting Alt-Tab to work properly in Openbox/LXDE
  22. Screen pattern, Aga Khan Museum
  23. Working with case-sensitive CD-ROM images on Linux
  24. Professor Banana, and some nearish relative …
  25. Islamic Radial Geometric Design: SVG Templates for Inkscape
  26. Tidied-up edition of Bourgoin’s Arabic Geometrical Design sourcebook on archive.org
  27. but … is it a fru.it of the dev.il?

August 2015

  1. Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design (Dover Pictorial Archive) [Kindle Edition] review
  2. This happened. Dunno how.
  3. Hovering above midtown again
  4. wovenish
  5. Beautiful Scanner Artefacts
  6. The majestic confluence of the Taylor-Massey & the Don
  7. Show your work …
  8. bike rack pastorale
  9. See, @emmarainebow – the big catfish does come out sometimes …
  10. local locust locus
  11. “These tiles would look *lovely* in the kitchen”, said nobody ever.
  12. I should probably stop with this sort of thing
  13. More geometrics
  14. Deep in the ancient woods, we find signs of the lost civilisation they called METRO …
  15. Underneath the Arches …
  16. Underneath the Arches …
  17. Zeta: heart-in-mouth time …
  18. Every modern CP/M computer wears lace-ups …
  19. Metal does not belong in cookies
  20. TREACHRY.IMG
  21. E. Broug’s figure again, this time as strapwork
  22. 5 point #1, Simple: after E. Broug.
  23. I see where @RobynHitchcock gets his shirt patterns …

July 2015

  1. be
  2. proud member of the office awkward squad
  3. Zeta: it lives!
  4. Zeta: all soldering done!
  5. bézier tile
  6. Bad calligraphic art ensues …
  7. Zeta: looks more finished than it really is
  8. Thermal Printer driver for CUPS, Linux, and Raspberry Pi: zj-58
  9. Been a while since I saw an OH logo
  10. Zeta: A small matter of soldering …
  11. Marie Kondo advocates discarding everything that does not spark joy, so …
  12. Oh no, he’s messing about with thermal printers again …
  13. Minimalist Computer Build: Zeta SBC
  14. %f0%9f%90%87
  15. Neato caterpillar
  16. My capacity for evil knows no bounds …
  17. The SYM-1 lives!
  18. Some of Catherine Raine’s library photos at NY Central

June 2015

  1. This is how I roll, and you’re fine with it.
  2. om nom nom nom nom
  3. Hey don’t mind me or nothing …
  4. Just in case you were needing a thermal printer test image …
  5. Good morning!
  6. Good for one day only
  7. View from the new place
  8. What’s my name, @emmarainebow ?
  9. Big ol’ nerd 4 lyfe …

May 2015

  1. does this make me a bad person?
  2. No Future
  3. Mac UI element weave
  4. Sharpening pencils is a joy
  5. Treeflower
  6. GSView … not to be confused with GSview
  7. this sloth can’t even
  8. a warm dawn rain thereafter
  9. Hey there, li’l stripey dude …
  10. Semi-secret sunlit ravine
  11. Gurney-7B
  12. Splines are thorny if you work them wrong
  13. when fillets go bad
  14. They dont make em like this any more
  15. Numbers …
  16. Hmm …

April 2015

  1. Like Ren and the Happy Helmet
  2. LibreOffice brings the old
  3. Tim Pollard?
  4. Annoying when this happens, isn’t it?
  5. Harper, Puppeteer o’ the North
  6. The Cuisenaire-Gattegno Log Cabin
  7. Hello, old friend …
  8. Goodbye, little Ellie. We all loved you
  9. TTC you gotta be kidding me
  10. I think Les would be very happy here

March 2015

  1. Get your Scott Pilgrim on
  2. Running FreeBASIC on Raspberry Pi
  3. The Gadsden Flag Nouveau
  4. A good likeness, I’d say #coolcreatures #digiplayspace
  5. The Golden Wug of Lascaux
  6. No Jazz for Robot
  7. (no caption)
  8. Windy 3
  9. Official pencils of the Aga Khan Museum
  10. Snowglaze
  11. Icy

February 2015

  1. As a small child, I thought the Winsor & Newton ink spider guy was going to get me
  2. I love the smell of infrastructure in the morning
  3. Should be used sparingly, if at all …
  4. So, guess who just found out about the Canon S100 lens error recall?
  5. A brisk bright day on the solar farm
  6. What a bunch of stupid Fiskars …
  7. Disappointed Tiny Sesame Rice Guy is Disappointed
  8. All ready for the show
  9. Smooth writer
  10. In which “Science!” is attempted
  11. PuttyBlort

January 2015

  1. Nith
  2. reticulater, tater
  3. That old Koh-i-noor Magic
  4. Care for a mildly radioactive grape, vicar?
  5. ∞ Noise
  6. Home-brew Jetstream Plotter Pens
  7. all I wanted to do was rip a CD on my Raspberry Pi …
  8. this happened, unfortunately
  9. all of the tartans
  10. Oi, you jus’ called me WHAT…?!
  11. All of the hammers! (for Robert)
  12. Om nom
  13. Oopsie
  14. First working prototype: Uni Jetstream plotter pen for Roland plotters
  15. Good to be back …
  16. Road Trip Playlist – for the way home, 2015

2014 259

December 2014

  1. when you stare into the googly Void …
  2. A runcible cat indeed
  3. Happiness is underfloor heating
  4. As much fun as a bucket o’ pistons
  5. All the colours (well, most of them)
  6. The ghost of KC streetcar tracks
  7. hello …
  8. Kitchen chromatography
  9. Pre-failed Niche Memes #1
  10. Gramophone Echoes
  11. The critter from the black lagoon
  12. Four on the floor 60° 45′ N 0° 53′ W style
  13. A seriously expensive bike light (not mine)
  14. ancistrus don’t gotta bioré
  15. Om nom
  16. I’ll just leave this here …

November 2014

  1. Late night emergency planimeter session
  2. Gas meters in the gloaming
  3. Tracklife
  4. Acrobat Cascade
  5. Buluberry? Wossat then?
  6. Space Invaders on the CBM Pet
  7. nerdy spreadsheet tick/cross formatting
  8. Stippling in progress …
  9. Once the Coolest Box on the Blockâ„¢, now a soggy trash receptacle in the slush
  10. Frosty lugs
  11. Puppy eyes save the web
  12. So z-umlaut’s a thing, and not just an inquisitive snake?
  13. .
  14. Flatbed Plotter Frenzy
  15. Gratuitous plotter hypotrochoids
  16. Looks like someone just lost religion
  17. Hello Roland …
  18. This is how my TTC commute makes me feel this morning 💩💩💩
  19. To be fully authentic, it would be on the sole of my foot …
  20. Everybody needs a Level 43 Tickle-Mimic
  21. Power, at what price?

October 2014

  1. Rolling Shutter Silliness
  2. “O my knife and fork are too wee”
  3. does kevin bank here?
  4. All Hail The Big Q
  5. A pickle is technically a side salad, amirite?
  6. I think we have some old here …
  7. The Yonge & St Clair Autoharp Guy
  8. ITS CAPS LOCK DAY!!!!!!!
  9. big brights
  10. Never thought I’d see a billboard for Buy Nothing Day …
  11. Holesaw pleasantly
  12. A walk in the woods
  13. I didn’t expect to see you here, Franklin
  14. Morning Pareidolia: Relaxed Norman Conqueror in Folded Umbrella
  15. Now that’s a tidy little power monitor
  16. Site of some epic head-crushings
  17. Log your electricity consumption with Powermon433
  18. Catherine’s stopgap/sparkly keychain

September 2014

  1. A thingy in The Soo
  2. Now That’s What I Call Static Fuzz
  3. Ongoing autumnal kinna situation, ken?
  4. (doo doo doo doo doot doot ×3) … my shawarma #sorry #notreallysorry
  5. Great big honest flowers; no guile, no artifice
  6. They don’t make substations like they did in 1930 (THES’s Glengrove)
  7. Never realised before that Station K was an Ed the 8th
  8. bee fall
  9. I buy mine at the store, but …
  10. Hey little leaf …
  11. All the St Louis faithful worship at Ted Drewes
  12. It was just a pleasing sky
  13. That new tram smell …
  14. Yeah, this might be ugly, but it’s logging my power use rather well
  15. Pharis & Jason
  16. fun with darktable
  17. I think this is about my favourite picture right now …
  18. Today in Sunflowers …
  19. Better late than never …
  20. Sunset on Comstock: metal recycling and bubblegum
  21. Damn thing is eating my captions: strop ’til ya drop
  22. Scots were clearly not consulted before this product was named
  23. The Coffee Mill: so long, and thanks for all the goulash
  24. Why Scotland should leave the UK
  25. Toast (Trad., Scot.) feat. Maynard K
  26. Unhappiness is both 3V3 & 2mm pitch …

August 2014

  1. Ye couldnae shove her aff hersel’, mind …
  2. A rainy day in the new library
  3. Guard Frog at Flack Lake
  4. The great maw opens …
  5. Nice night for it
  6. Untitled
  7. Stephen still a novice glove puppeteer, confirms Laureen Harper
  8. omnomnomstaples
  9. Oh plotter fonts …
  10. Glaring Anachronisms
  11. yellowbus yellowbus yellowbus
  12. The Global Village wears green sneakers
  13. Meatball
  14. Screamingly fast HWRNG on Arduino Due
  15. The Man Upstairs was waiting for me
  16. Flyfish FF32, a PIC-based USBeastie
  17. low-angle sunlit beads
  18. 6060842
  19. whatalily
  20. Babby Muskrat
  21. Pinery
  22. Cool water
  23. Churrasco
  24. Brum brum bogla bogla
  25. Ice cream bus
  26. Notes on mini-printers and Linux

July 2014

  1. Beater Bikes: review (and requiem?)
  2. Artisanal Pedals
  3. Kodak Special Collection
  4. Near Photo Quality Thermal Receipt Printer
  5. More of this sort of thing, please.
  6. o wat
  7. Silverfins
  8. RT shot
  9. Landshark Nursery
  10. Solar farming
  11. 64 Canadian Maple Leaves
  12. Particularly Puffy
  13. Good designers copy. Great designers steal. Me, I give back …
  14. getting there, Bob willing …
  15. File under “Partial Successes”
  16. or two Solar Marble Machines, at normal speed!
  17. Solar Marble Machine at 2× speed
  18. Goin’ Googly
  19. Baklava frenzy
  20. green dapple
  21. Baud rates are my pain
  22. Solarengines are the greatest thing
  23. WindShare: a stellar investment, a gallant icon
  24. The Aroma oracle has spoken regarding Rob Ford
  25. Happy Canada Day (HP-GL version)

June 2014

  1. Library Pride
  2. Skeuomorphia Highdensitia (IUCN status: Endangered)
  3. Does what it says on the box …
  4. A small, unseasonable tacky backing-paper tannenbaum
  5. Maybe the last?
  6. Big Train
  7. Rockin’ it 8-bit (thanks to Maryke)
  8. What a good idea … #ttc
  9. Nothin’s Gonna Happen
  10. artmess
  11. ashtabula kickstand
  12. Beater bike built!
  13. One for the White Cane Hams: a Braille multimeter
  14. I like to think they add urgency to my letters …
  15. JPEG 2000 on Ubuntu — without anyone getting stabbed
  16. No they aren’t, Canadian Tire, and you should know better
  17. Squirrel got a Rainbow Cookie
  18. teh p0inty
  19. Looking down on the Flatiron
  20. Shish
  21. The cuddliest microfiche reader of 1968

May 2014

  1. Robyn Hitchcock would like it here.
  2. Splinter
  3. Rouge’ing it
  4. Ⓗⓞⓦ ⓣⓞ ⓑⓔ ⓐⓝⓝⓞⓨⓘⓝⓖ ⓦⓘⓣⓗ Ⓟⓔⓡⓛ ⓐⓝⓓ Ⓤⓝⓘⓒⓞⓓⓔ
  5. Precisely what nobody wanted — the Hershey fonts as a huge great PDF
  6. It seemed such a good idea at the time …
  7. The war against bikes
  8. Aghast recycling bin
  9. Breakfastingducks
  10. Obsolete view: south from 200 University Ave (2009)
  11. Happiness is not having to implement your own spline routine
  12. The (Monotype) Matrix
  13. Scarlet Red
  14. Forgive me, A V Hershey …

April 2014

  1. It’s the latest fashion ’round here
  2. It’s so much fun to write!
  3. Don’t put your back out, Donald
  4. Hovering Etherwave
  5. Good times at the badlands
  6. Canadian Art Critics
  7. Strength of Materials
  8. Deafening frogs
  9. A Contribution to Computer Typesetting Techniques: Tables of Coordinates for Hershey’s Repertory of Occidental Type Fonts and Graphic Symbols
  10. Unapproved Typographic Experiments
  11. Undead Media
  12. Yarbles …
  13. Good, but not good for me
  14. Moonscape, or Canadian spring parking lot?
  15. Yeah, Ed, it’s called popcorn …
  16. A wee bit of light reading
  17. Unfortunately, they won’t let me scavenge this for parts …
  18. Making cheap HP plotter pens + yet another HP-GL viewer
  19. Canadian Arrival Anniversary Breakfast at The Wexford
  20. Yay! Modded cheap ballpoints into plotter pens
  21. Somewhat Squat Selfie
  22. Leave no whiteboard eyeless
  23. I wonder why the word “bread” is missing?
  24. Chili cans need transit, too
  25. Light and shadow
  26. Gravity gets unusually strong around Caplansky’s. Further research needed.
  27. I. Can’t. Take. Much. More. Of. This. …

March 2014

  1. Through melting ice
  2. More fun with plotters: graphing, simplifying, and random noises …
  3. Clifton Hicks’ first album available again
  4. No vowels
  5. Dessert o’ champions: gulab jamun + kheer
  6. New light rail
  7. Wheels and old snow
  8. SRT crepuscular roof-basking
  9. Pleasantly futile: Dogecoin digging on the Raspberry Pi
  10. Fixing a broken boombox
  11. Yes 2
  12. American Googly
  13. Spring break?
  14. Danakil, of course
  15. Melting snow troll
  16. The very best shawarma in town
  17. Scored
  18. ICQuestionBank2csv
  19. Upsidedown Lower48 Time Zones = Mutant Armadillo
  20. Bulk snow delivery; low prices.
  21. Quality television: NB vs BC at the Brier
  22. Be Seeing You …
  23. For all your HP 7470a plotter manual needs
  24. Caution: Mind Control Devices in Operation.
  25. ‘s cold

February 2014

  1. A nice touch …
  2. hypotrochoids
  3. Game designers at work
  4. evidently
  5. more plots than mount pleasant
  6. For Nefarious Use Only
  7. So that’s how the Raspberry Pi camera fits in the CamdenBoss housing …
  8. Ya. Dancer: Mackie’s Salt & Vinegar Crisps #crunch #crunch #crunch
  9. Too Much is Never Enough for Lisa Frank
  10. The Circle of Life
  11. All googly in Greektown
  12. An Intel Galileo running without wires
  13. Wonderful blank Terms & Conditions
  14. Death-defying acts of biscuitry!
  15. elementary OS: could be worse
  16. Baklava Frenzy
  17. The Auto Squiggler
  18. Hmm, this batch of tablet turned out weird …
  19. Not Abominable, just Amorphous
  20. The GECO Spur ne’er looked so lovely
  21. A fine day by the Taylor-Massey

January 2014

  1. Overly-cheerful elevator detail
  2. Library from on high
  3. It’s colder than it looks
  4. Thanks, Pete
  5. Linking ≠Abuse.
  6. Self-fulfilling Askinosie chocolate prophesy
  7. Estimating the speed of sound with stereo microphones and Audacity
  8. “Let’s Spin This Baby Up!”
  9. So blurry. Much shake. Wow.
  10. A most excellent reel de-spooler
  11. Ripley’s? Tripley’s, more like
  12. A squirrel really wishing that I’d stop taking pictures of it
  13. The HP48: the best calculator ever
  14. It’s a shame about Ray …
  15. Trippin’ with the Alewives
  16. Processing 2.1 + Oracle Java + Raspberry Pi + Serial + Arduino = ☺
  17. Scotch Broth for a cold day
  18. The Reel Thing
  19. Pretty cold

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