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Makers Making Change (MMC) is an innovative program that engages makers to build assistive devices for people with disabilities. With a pandemic ban on gatherings, MMC could not host group build events, and supplies ran low for their most requested …
VHS Helps Makers Making Change Build Mouth-Operated Joysticks Read more »
Yeung, one of our recent new members, has brought a bunch of new equipment to the space! It happens we’ve had this vinyl cutter kicking around for a few years. It goes by “The Clipper”. I think there were TV …
Many thanks to West Coast Wood Slabs for donating beautiful walnut wood scraps to VHS. Thank you! Thanks also to Mike for setting up a Walnut Materials Challenge with those scraps! Here are just some of the beautiful things VHS members …
Another month, another selection of amazing VHS activities and member projects to highlight! The only difficult thing is to pick out just a few, but let’s see what we can come up with. Scrap Wood Contest Mike proposed an impromptu …
All kinds of interesting projects are created by members and guests at VHS. A few of them get documented on our forum, talk.vanhack.ca. But not everybody follows Talk, so maybe we should show off a few of these on this …
Did you know we have sewing machines at VHS? You too could make this tea towel with fancy pants mitered corners. Here are the instructions for sewing those corners and here is another full tutorial on making a tea towel with …
Member Projects: Sewing Tea Towels with Mitered Corners Read more »
We taught lots of people how to solder today at Maker Faire 2016, including kids as young as 4 years old! Here’s the how to solder comic we use as well as the guide to our VHS Blinky Badge kit. …
CBC news recently interviewed some of our members about all the cool things you can do with a Raspberry Pi from setting up a computer to building your own photo booth, pinball machine, and loads more. And now, with …
VHS Talks to CBC News About the New Pi Zero: A $5 Computer Read more »
Recently VHS member Logan lead a very successful workshop teaching the basics of soldering and how to build a radio! Attendees had a great time learning the ins and outs of using a soldering station, making good solder joints, the …
Photos from: Soldering 101/Learn to Build a Radio Read more »
The Cypress Umbrella, designed and developed entirely at VHS is now live on Kickstarter! Who? Team Hedgehog aka (Cahay Ho and Kevin Truong) members of VHS since December 2014. What? The mission statement behind the Cypress Umbrella Project, is …