About

Hi, I’m Darin “DW” White, long-time maker, living in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I’m the creative guerrilla behind makebright, partnering with an associated posse of smart people to do cool stuff.

The #1 question I get: What is makebright?  Best answer: makebright is undefined.

It is being invented on the fly.  It is whatever blows our hair back.  The mission: make stuff.  Make connections in my community.  Make great photos.  Make electronic gadgets.  Make a persuasive argument for turning off reality TV and making your own reality.  My interests include: DW-2009_200px_trans_border

photography – I shoot 2nd hand Nikon D90’s, Canon PowerShots for CHDK, and a BlackBerry 9790.

electronics – I’m a self-taught hardware lover. Done a lot of work on both Atmel AVR and Microchip PIC microcontrollers, as well as Arduino. Built a lot of sensors from scratch including capacitive, PIR, ultrasonic, and piezo-electric. I’m especially interested in reverse engineering of consumer electronics.

fabrication – I designed and made my own 3-axis CNC circuit board mill from scratch.  Ok, well I made three of them before it worked right.  One of the projects I’m most proud of.

You can find me in all these places:

One Response to About

  1. Stephen Preece says:

    Never Quit…just an awesome photo…to all those who bike in the winter!

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