Cuckoo Clock!
I've had a mild interest in Cuckoo clocks for as long as I can remember. Any kind of automata has captured my attention since I was kid. We haven't ever owned one, but I'm interested in the mechanical nature of them, and how interesting it is that people could make these literally hundreds of years ago. It's a real testament to engineering.We received a [...]
My favorite thing about 3D Printing – pt 2
A few days ago I found my kid's headphones on the floor - the right earphone was dangling awkwardly away from the headband. It got stepped on, or dropped, or something like [...]
A house made of sweets
There's a video produced by Tasty from several years ago featuring making gingerbread houses. I watch it every year because I enjoy their videos and the Christmas music makes [...]
Christmas Lights Snowflake Prop!
A few years back as I was starting to build out my Holiday light setup, I remember watching a video where the host said "3D printing is what really takes this hobby to the [...]
The Macintosh SAO
I attended the 2024 Hackaday Supercon conference this year. I wanted to take something special to share. So I made a little electronics badge that acts a little like an [...]
Finding a lost song
Have you ever had a song or a jingle or something from your youth that you couldn't quite place? And you casually look for it occasionally without any success. I have such a [...]
My favorite thing about 3D Printing
I've been doing 3D Printing for a long time. Most of the time not very successfully, but still doing it. The reason I've held onto it for so long, more than any other, is the [...]
Christmas Countdown!
Sometime in 2016 I came up with an idea for a project: A Christmas ornament that counted the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Christmas. But I wanted it to [...]
Random Childhood Memory – Doctor Who
(This was posted on Facebook and Google+ on Sept 29, 2013. I've duplicated (and expanded on) it here so I always have it.
When I was a kid, I remember (very vaguely) my [...]
Christmas Lights 2021!
You may recall last year I took my first step into Sequenced, animated Christmas lights with some arches and simple light strings. I had some grand plans this year to follow [...]