Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Check the Skyaak R&D sister site. This is strictly an experiment, in a total state of flux.
We are going to use the WordPress platform as a launch pad for the brand new skyaak.com.
WordPress has all the support, plug-ins, CSS, et al to juice up a world-class site.
For example, GoDaddy talks to WordPress. WordPress is a [...]
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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
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This scintillating video shows Dylan hot-wiring the Skyaak Ultra-Glow guts. He has placed a ‘pod’ against the disco light so you can see how the pod sucks up the LED light. This discovery lead us to invent the idea of inserting a tiny replica Skyaak inside the shaft so as it travels back and forth, [...]
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
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Skyaak developer Dylan Cooke shows the latest Skyaak R&D advance, an LED light array that enables night-time play.
The request from the Feature Producer at Z Tele for a Skyaak ‘Ultra-Glow’ sent me scrambling into Saskatoon over the weekend to hook up with Dylan, who you will remember is one of the key developers of the [...]
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
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After I posted the video that shows the “Ultra-Glow” model in Dylan’s hands, I realized that you might actually like to see the Skyaak in action, being thrown and caught between real people in real live action. It’s pretty difficult to imagine a glider gliding without seeing it…airborne.
This video was produced about three years ago [...]
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Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Someone once said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so here’s 7000 words about the DIY ‘deuce’…
Remember that I am 1st and foremost an artist…a visual artist…so I am showing you these images because I think they are pretty neat just as images. The Skyaak DIY ‘deuce’ design is actually quite intricate and [...]
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