Month: May 2007
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Dancing
Like I say, I am a naturally born horrible dancer. I suck at it, my sense of rithym is non existent and even in a slow song I manage somehow to step on my partner’s feet continuously.
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Cycling
I still remember the euphoric feeling I had the moment I realized I had learned to ride a bicycle at the age of 6. It was a tiny, solid rubber tires, cheap rusty yellow bike, but it felt like a million bucks that warm august afternoon.
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Filmmaking
In 2004 I began my serious plunge into the world of filmmaking here in Vancouver, BC. I signed with a north american film apprenticeship program called film-connection that set me up with a local producer named Dian Cross. She helped me find jobs in local commercial productions as a production assistant. By the end of…
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Leaning Recumbent Bike
“Most likely, anything you can come up with has already been done” – by Miguel Hernandez This was the case when I came up with the idea for a full suspension leaning recumbent trike. I spent weeks sketching such a concoction when one day surfing the Internet all my dreams of wealth and stardom were…
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Foosball Table
Now we are talking!. I love this sport? well, it could be considered so. You sure sweat and jump like crazy on a heated game of foosball. Fast paced, this apparently harmless game can become a very hectic and dangerous leisure activity. Things can get very tense when one of the players does not know…
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Lego Stacker
The very first movie I ever made with the TRV-900 from work was this 1 minute video of my then (August 2001) most recent LEGO invention, the radio controlled, two bin LEGO stacker.
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CVT – Continuous Variable Transmission
Inspiration during a hydraulics lecture – I came up with the idea after being introduced to the common power vs. speed curve during one of Mr. Andic’s hydraulic lectures that were part of BCIT’s curriculum for their mechanical design program in 1999.
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Inventions
“Soy Pedro el pintor y pinto con Procolor” That line, my father used to sing, comes into my mind every time I think of myself as an inventor . Who knows why. All I know is that it comes from a very old spanish paint commercial. Since I was a little kid I have enjoyed…