Mod Lab’s March 2nd Recap

March 9th, 2011

Jean-Marc LeBlanc demoed his hack to an Evalbot, a mobile robotic evaluation board for the Stellaris microcontroller, that allows him to host a webpage on a USB stick on the back of this rolling robot. I’d never seen a website that could run away from me before and I do so hope to again. How […]

Mod Lab’s December 1st Meetup

December 13th, 2010

A call was put out a month or so ago for artists to submit project proposals to use Artengine’s Makerbot to aid in the fabrication of their work. Chayle Cook, an Ottawa-based artist specializing in jewelery, printmaking and book art has been working intensely on modeling a new ring design using Blender, a free open […]

Mod Lab’s November 17th Meeting Recap

November 24th, 2010

At our meeting last Wednesday Richard Briggs, one of Ottawa’s makers from the first Maker Faire and member of the Human Powered Vehicle Operators of Ottawa or HPVOoO, brought in some of the electroluminescent wire he had been working with to create an EL-wired human powered train for the Help Santa Toy Parade put on […]