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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

How I added a custom commentary track to a movie

A couple of years back, one of my favorite podcaster/writer/tour-de-forces, Andy Ihnatko released a commentary track for the 1954 holiday classic White [...]

Christmas Eve Party!

I am in my mid-thirties. In spite of this, Christmas brings out the 6-year-old in me, and I very often will wake up early on Christmas morning. We figured [...]