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 song. It has no lyrics, and I could (at best) sort of hum the tune. Music identity apps were not any help. I was certain it was from an old MacAddict CD, or maybe something I found [...]

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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 [...]

Musical Jack O’ Lanterns

This year for Halloween decorations, I built and sequenced a music and light show featuring Jack O' Lanterns. [...]

Getting it wrong

I've been working on a particular project for the past five years. I had this great idea for a Christmas ornament and I wanted to see it realized and on my Christmas tree. [...]

I wrote a Nintendo Game

About six months ago, I wrapped up my formal schooling and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Software Engineering. My final course was a Senior Project where I got to [...]

Holiday Lights Display

Like you no doubt, I've come across animated holiday light displays on YouTube, and occasionally around my neighborhood, and looked on with some envy. Not this year! This [...]

3D Printed Laminar Fountains

Mark II Fountain
I have come across laminar flow fountains a few times in my life. The earliest I can remember is the jumping fountains at Epcot when I was a kid. More recently I wanted to [...]

Emulator in a GamePak™

Way back in October or something, a coworker of mine asked if I had a glue gun he could borrow. He was in town from the UK for a couple of months, and was interested in [...]