Hobby
My hobbies and passions: Generally pretty nerdy stuff.
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Weekend Project – Ghost Message!
Many years ago, I thought it'd be a fun idea to have an RGB panel that would display game sprites on demand, connected to the internet, so people could display [...]
Programming AVRs using a USBasp on a Mac
I loaned out my trusty USBTinyISP to a friend a while back and it was easier to go find an alternative than to coordinate schedules. So I bought a USBasp - [...]
Early Morning Project: RasPi Zero Roomba
I can't sleep. Instead of sleeping, I'm hacking robots. Last year during my winter holiday I wired up a Raspberry Pi to my Roomba, to drive it around and such. [...]
Programming an nRF52 on a Mac
Several months ago, I went to promotional conference for a microcontroller on a whim. I'd heard about it the night before, and after some investigation [...]
Weekend Project: Wireless outlet control
I mentioned briefly in my post about controlling LEDs with my Amazon Echo that I have some wireless outlet switches that I wanted to control. At the time I [...]
Weekend Project: Amazon Echo LED Control
As I mentioned last week, I got an Amazon Echo for Christmas. The first time I heard about it I thought "Meh, I already have a phone that does that". Then I [...]