North Forge Fabrication Lab
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North Forge Fabrication Lab is a membership-based shop in the Exchange District. We hold a membership there, which gives us access to many tools.
Projects done at North Forge:
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Rowing themed custom belt buckles
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Positioner sleeve for mouse thigh bone marrow extraction
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MediaWiki kiosk running on a Raspberry Pi 4B
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Audiovisual display of a children's book being read in Orkadian.
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A display where a ship's wheel controls a virtual ship on a screen to demonstrate how Range Lights work
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Rotary dial phone that pays sound files
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Display where a user pulls a handle on a rope and one random sound is played
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Tabletop training kit for rowing umpires
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Audio display
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Adapter plate for electric outboard conversion
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Museum audio display that plays a short recording.
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Museum display that plays sound when a wooden wheel is turned.
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Museum display that turns choosing potential activities during the Metis year into an interactive puzzle
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Museum display that will play audio when it detects the presence of visitors.
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Audio display where visitor presses a button and listens to a recording in Bungi
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Puzzle that unlatches a cabinet if LED candles being blown out in a specific order.
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Critical Care and Medicine Database wiki
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A set of MS Access programs for collection, data processing and data storage for a medical database.
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MS Access program using VBA to automate mailing personalized reports to >1000 people
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File that plays DTMF tones based on numeric entries in an Excel file.
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Wiki to document administrative processes for the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Manitoba
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Remote, off-grid monitoring and automation
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This wiki
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Conversion of a losely structured Mediawiki to a more highly structured format using facilitated editing
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A tape measure that changes how far it is unrolled based on a value on a mediawiki page.
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Battery operated display that uses a rope pull to turn on an audio file and LED backlighting.
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Cut in a piece of wood to precisely match a piece of glass artwork.
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Wall port to exhaust a room air conditioner through wall rather than through window, with cover for winter.
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Custom-molded rain cover for Brooks leather saddle (or any other bike seat)
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A way to mount the block heater plug on the bumper
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Custom fit winter cover for the vents in a bumper.
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SPD standard clip-in foot stretchers for a rowing shell
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Tab joined foot stool
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Soap rack custom fit to a sink
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Pipe mounted dish glove rack
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Rack for keys and mail with weather station
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Wall mounted floating nightstands
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Font with minimum size for routing with a rotary bit.
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Hat bands with a rower's sillhouette
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Adapter between coffee grinder and Espresso maker pod
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Through tenons for a joint that spell out words
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Oar rack
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Rubber mat replacement for antique car
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Recycled jar labelled by Masked Sandblasting using vinyl mask.
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Wood with grain exposed through Masked Sandblasting
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A guide to help maintain the angle of a triangular file when sharpening saws.
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Soft Shackle Microleash
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Custom stand to store shampoo bottles upside down.
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Sensors and a computer connected to a rowing ergometer to interpret technique and provide improvement suggestions
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Gadget that measures how quickly the user responds to a cue and moves an accelleration sensor.
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Ceiling lamp based on what a resting rowing shell would look like from under water.
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Vector graphic of the winnipeg skyline
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A mobile cabinet to store and transport my woodworking hand planes.
Add list of tools query, but for that I need to fix up tools in general first.