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 interested in the mechanical nature of them, and how interesting it is that people could make these literally hundreds of years ago. It's a real testament to engineering.We received a [...]

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Back on the 3D-Printed Horse

  January 10, 2011
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Several months ago, I finally got my hands on a mostly-working 3d printer. A maker bot. After irritated months of tinkering, I had trouble getting it to print out things that [...]

Blurring the Lines in Digital Content Shifting

  January 3, 2011
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I ran into a dilemma today that I never expected to run into and it has to do with fairness when it comes to digital property. I'm an advocate of time-shifting and [...]

I’m in a Show

  November 10, 2010
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A couple of months ago, I decided to try out for a musical my church is putting on. I have been cast in the part of Charlie Davenport in "Annie Get Your Gun". We have 3 [...]

Last Minute Halloween

  November 5, 2010
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I've always been very taken with Halloween setups. The orchestration, the excitement, and creativity all lead to a fun expression of the holiday. Halloween has taken it's [...]

My First Printed Plastic Part

  July 6, 2010
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I have been working at this for months. A couple of years ago, I found out about the RepRap project. The idea behind the reprap (if you haven't talked to me recently) is to [...]

A Beginnerโ€™s guide to making an Arduino Shield PCB

  June 24, 2010
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(This tutorial has gotten really popular recently, and I'm very pleased that so many people are interested. I learned all of this stuff while working on my first PCB. If [...]

My very first PCB

  May 17, 2010
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That is to say, my first PCB that I actually designed. I recently began attending a bi-weekly electronics hobbiest group call Dorkbot PDX. It's basically an opportunity for [...]

Eagle3D on a Mac when POVray won’t work…

  April 29, 2010
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So you just finished your first PCB in Eagle. Good job. Me too actually, and after a few days I came across something very cool. Eagle3D. Eagle3D takes your Eagle .brd file [...]

Nissan LEAF Colors

  April 20, 2010
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There's been a lot of wondering I think, about whether or not the Nissan LEAF EV was going to offered in anything other than that blueish color they've been parading around. [...]

But *my* phone already does that…

  April 8, 2010
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Today was the iPhone OS 4 announcement/meeting/thing - Basically a press conference for Apple to tell the world how awesome they are. This is not an uncommon thing and the [...]