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From Squirrel's Lair
Welcome to the Squirrelslair. We provide a variety of services, please see the projects below for more info. If you have a project you think we could help you with, please email us at webcontact@squirrelslair.ca
Project Type
We have done the following types of projects:
- Featured Project
- Interactive Display
- Mediawiki Project
- Museum Display
- Office Automation
- Personal Project
- Portfolio
- Prototyping and Integration
Skillset
We have the following skillsets:
- 3D Modelling
- 3D Printing
- 3D Scanning
- Arduino
- CNC Machining
- Electronics
- Graphic Design
- Laser Cutting
- Making
- Masked Sandblasting
- Mediawiki
- Office Automation
- Programming
- Python
- Raspberry Pi
- Reverse Engineering
- Sandblasting
- Shape Extraction
- Vacuum Forming
- Vinyl Cutting
- Visual Basic for Applications(VBA)
- Woodworking
Projects
Click here for a full list of projects
TidBits
Some things we have been playing with that aren't quite projects but might be of interest to some people.
- Python script to scrape images and metadata from a website for upload to a mediawiki
- Python script to upload images and descriptions to a mediawiki
- How to add a real-time clock to the Raspberry Pi (Useful for devices without a network connection)
- Get data into a mediawiki from tabular format such as a spreadsheet
- Displaying Maps in Mediawiki
- Make quick web sites in Inkscape
- Quick and dirty way to use the MPU-6050 accelerometer/gyro in MicroPython
- Convert and display a 1-bit image of size x, y on an OLED with MicroPython
- Play WAV files over I2S using a Raspberry Pi Pico (RP2040) and MAX98357A
- If you have a video and want to extract a series of images from it, you can do it easily with FFmpeg
- Looking to automate key and/or mouse combinations? Do it with an Arduino!
- The green (ACT) LED on a Raspberry Pi 4 and 400 can indicate what's causing boot problems.
- Micropython code snippet for using the BN-220 and BN-880 GPS module
- Quicker page edits on mediawiki
- ContextSearch in FireFox adds more than just rightClick-search
