Author: EvaB

  • Tiny Check-In

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    (This post reproduced from the original with kind permission form Matt and Kat, the Hobohemians http://houseofhobos.com/2014/12/22/tiny-check-in/) Hobos must wander. How can they not? Hobos must leave a place out of principle, out of habit, out of design, or even necessity. (It has been pointed out to me that the true plural form of ‘hobo’ is…

  • Our Newest Addition to the Metalworking Shop

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    This Vertcut saw uses gravity to cut once your material has engaged with the blade.  The lever brings the blade to the material to be cut, then gravity takes over.  It’s plain simple!  

  • Our New Toy!

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    Look!

  • Improbable Contest?

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    Aim:  To bear the most weight. Method:   Make a table, at least two inches high, out of a page from a telephone book and 11 3/4 inches of masking tape. Reward:  A three month membership to the Diyode Community Workshop, here at 71 Wyndham St S., Unit B, where do-it-yourselfers make all sorts of…

  • Introduction to Glass Fusing in the Kiln

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    Glass has been a fascinating medium for both practical and artistic works for millennia.  Imagine our delight when Annie  joined Diyode and brought her glass kiln with her! Last Sunday, she showed us  some projects and helped us understand how to use her kiln.                ” Fusing” glass is…

  • Yurting: sewing the canvas with the Sailrite and yurt dwelling tips

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    Well it’s been almost a year since the last blog post and much has been discovered about living in a yurt in a Canadian climate. Since the completion of the Yurt tono crown, two pieces of ash steam bent into a circle (see last yurt blog in March 2013), the canvas was sewn out of…

  • From Diyode to Diyode, and Beyond!!!!!!!!!!

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    Flying from 2013 into 2014 What a year!!                   Onward to new adventures….. Whooooooosh!!!!!!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaCB0EKWpmQ#action=share   HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Diyode is at the Detroit Maker Faire!

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    These events are a true riot of ideas, people and innovative products that are just on the verge of breaking out into the world.  Diyode will be there with our own team of innovators to show how the Diyode Codeshield can transform the way electronics is taught, and how it opens the gate to learning programming…

  • We have launched a campaign on Indiegogo!

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    The Diyode Codeshield – A better way to teach Arduino Help fund the manufacture of the Codeshield, an Arduino add-on board designed to make teaching and learning electronics and programming easier & more effective. ……………………………………… Education has been a strong part of the mandate of DIYode since its inception.  The Codeshield was developed to be…

  • Maker Faire Editor’s Choice Award

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    …goes to DIYode,  for their amazing Codeshield Grande!!    Way to go Team!!!!  Woo Hoo!!