Technology
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Bash Command Prompt Flair on a Mac
A couple of months ago I was going through Apple's Introduction to Swift, wherein they mentioned that Swift's support of unicode allowed that you could use [...]
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. [...]