2010

This weekend I attended Art Science Camp, put on by Subtle Technologies and the Hart House at University of Toronto. See schedule. I had an awesome time, and met several really cool people. I put on a session on cyborgs and sensory augmentation, where I talked about sensebridge and the stuff I am doing. Plus I put on a session where we did readings, which was a lot of fun.

This weekend I had a booth at the Ottawa Mini Makers Faire (booth list), to show off my sensebridge stuff to a Canadian crowd.

For Halloween this year I actually completed a long-term idea of mine: an epic illuminated acrylic staff.

Last night was the first ever Quantified Self Toronto meetup. I presented on my new “Heart Flasher” project of monitoring my heart-beat, flashing it with LEDs to those around me, and logging it.

Last weekend was SoOnCon 2010, the Southern Ontario Hackerspaces Conference. People gathered from Diyode (Guelph), Hacklab.TO (Toronto) (most of our contingent is pictured to the right), Kwartzlab (Kitchener), Site 3 (Toronto), and ThinkHaus (Hamilton) for a weekend of fun and education.

After the reunion I continued on up the freeway to Montreal. I crashed with an old friend there, played huge numbers of games (he’s a board gaming geek), and checked out Foulab, the Montreal hackerspace.

Last weekend I traveled up to Kingston for “faux-coming”, the annual reunion event that Queens University is now canceling thanks to riots in previous years. Canceled or no there was still a huge number of people who returned, and a lot of parties.