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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

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  Custom Belt Buckles - Rowing themed custom belt buckles

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  Mouse Thigh Bone Holder - Positioner sleeve for mouse thigh bone marrow extraction

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  Offline Museum Kiosk With MediaWiki and Raspberry Pi - MediaWiki kiosk running on a Raspberry Pi 4B

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  Orkadian Book Reading Display - Audiovisual display of a children's book being read in Orkadian.

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  Range Lights Interactive Museum Display - A display where a ship's wheel controls a virtual ship on a screen to demonstrate how Range Lights work

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  Self-answering Phone - Rotary dial phone that pays sound files

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  Steam Whistle Display - Display where a user pulls a handle on a rope and one random sound is played

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  Training Materials for Rowing Umpires - Tabletop training kit for rowing umpires

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