Fixing our Macs
We have several old Macs in the house. Although I am eager to replace them with modern Apple Silicon based systems, they're still very usable computers. Or at least they should be. A year or so ago my wife's 24" iMac just stopped working one day. The machine that I bought to replace it for her, a 2017 13" MacBook Pro works fine... as long as its plugged [...]
I’m a Linux user now, I guess
My MacBook Pro is pretty old. A mid-2014 13" i7. It's been showing its age for a while. I've wanted a new computer, but I haven't really needed one. I spend my working day [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]