Ylab member Lucian has been running the Artificial Intelligence North meetups for the last couple of years at Markham Public Libraries’ Angus Glen branch. He’s had an incredible variety of quality speakers and topics – machine learning, neural networks and more. Click on the link to see for yourself.
The meetups have...
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been performing surgery on the light sabres people made in our class several months ago.
All our light sabres can do single or multiple colours. Those multiple colours are way more impressive than the picture shows.
Our light sabres were designed by ylab member Richard. We have a custom circuit...
Ylab has run some amateur radio events and classes with our friends from the York Region Amateur Radio Club (YRARC). We like radio stuff because there’s a history of it at the DDO, and there’s some fascinating new activity and technology that’s clearly not your grandfather’s old ham rig. Some ylab members are also Scout leaders, and we’ve been helping...
It’s ylab’s first week back with the DDO now being run by the Town of Richmond Hill, and there are lots of improvements to our space and the entire facility.
While progress appears slow, in the background, the Town’s staff are accomplishing great things.
We mentioned a lot of clean-up in earlier posts.
Invisible, but most apparent:...
Having a maker space in a historical building is so cool.
After many months absence, our first night back at the DDO was dedicated to some clean-up. A new part of ylab is the DDO’s basement workshop, so we decided to attack it first.
Knows what these are, and can tell some parts are missing.
Getting into some of the old tool cabinets...
Some attendees of past ylab events at the DDO approached the site with a healthy amount of fear and trepidation. Not because of us – we’re the happy, friendly kind of crazy – but because of the state of road and driveway during construction and years of wear and tear.
Hillsview Drive. With real curbs. An a distinct lack of mud.
To...
Anyone who’s watched an old Frankenstein movie – or almost any old black-and-white sci-fi movie – knows you can’t have a decent science lab without a Jacob’s ladder and its noisy, sparky electric arcs crawling up between two wires.
He would get a charge out of this.
Since we call ourselves ylab, member Craig felt...
What-seems-like-an-eternity ago (it was the beginning of October), we kicked off a light sabre(1) big shiny stick thing making class, using a new circuit board design engineered by ylab member Richard. It’s designed to handle the latest 5V, 144 LED per meter, multi-color light strips for lowest power and maximum brightness....
Based on the lack of posts and updates, people say it’s been quiet the last couple of months.
Over the spring and summer, we’ve received some interesting equipment donations, and they’ve been put to good use. This picture of ylab member Gilles at work in the space says it all.
It’s been quiet. Sometimes, that’s a good...
We’re changing things up for the fall!
OPEN HOUSE NIGHTS: LESS IS MORE!
We’ve halted our regular open house Wednesdays to make them even better.
Starting October 12, we’ll have them bi-weekly, on every second Wednesday, and feature a free one-hour seminar/demo session at each one.
To kick it off, we’ve scheduled a free What’s...