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Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home eco-systems. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit, Samsung SmartThings, etc. To prevent 6+ flavours of smart lightbulbs working with 6+ different apps, a standard needed to be found. When I first heard about the Matter standard I… Continue reading Matter as a Smart home standard
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5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

On a few photowalks around Kitsilano in Vancouver BC with my first roll of Fomapan Classic 100. All pictures shot with older, non-AI Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 lens. Developed in Ilford Ilfosol3 for 5 minutes at 20°C and scanned with a cheap film scanner. Color has been removed and some levels adjusted slightly. Gate to the… Continue reading 5 Frames with Nikon FM and Fomapan 100

a month ago 31 votes
CircuitPython in 2025

This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to that of p5.js Vector. Early this year I spent… Continue reading CircuitPython in 2025

2 months ago 67 votes
Generative 3D Modeling

Recently Microsoft released the open 3D generation software Trellis. I decided to try a few tests as reviews had been quite favourable with results creating 3D models with “AI”. The website describes the technology as unified Structured LATent (SLAT) representation and there is a demo page to try it out.https://trellis3d.github.io/ I chose an image-to-3D example,… Continue reading Generative 3D Modeling

3 months ago 82 votes
Cake Hole Whistler Mountain

Often inviting. This terrain just off the Whistler peak road can be an enticing sun-swept run of untouched powder.Understanding that you need to come back up the same way you go down, can make you question if it’s really worth it.Know before you go. Cake Hole by Andrew SmithAcrylic on canvasFramed by artist12 x 16… Continue reading Cake Hole Whistler Mountain

4 months ago 68 votes
Gold and Ghosts

In the autumn of 1892, two miners, Earl and Edward, found themselves high in the Pacific Northwest mountains, searching for a legend as old as the hills: the lost crate of gold. The tale of “Shining Creek Gold” was whispered in every saloon from Seattle to San Francisco, a cache of gold bars rumored to… Continue reading Gold and Ghosts

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