All my Macintosh(es)
I've recently been listening to Jason Snell's excellent 20 Macs for 2020. Even though it's several years old at this point its been a really great trip down memory lane and really enjoyable in terms of revisiting old macs that I both knew about, and some that my family actually owned. In light of that I wanted to make my own little record of of Macs that [...]
Last Minute Halloween
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
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 Beginner’s guide to making an Arduino Shield PCB
(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
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…
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
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. [...]
Building a 3D printer
I should start out by warning you that this is not a build-log. My friend Isaac reminded me that before we started this project, this was blogging gold, and he didn't have a [...]
Y’know, that one song… from the 50’s?
So last night I was looking for a song that I've heard a million times, but have never known the name of. It's an instrumental, and I'm pretty confident that you've heard it [...]
SparkFun Free Day Fallout.
Well, I tried, and everybody I know tried. None of us made it. It's unfortunate, but I don't think any of us are going to die. If you haven't heard about SparkFun Electronics' [...]
But *my* phone already does that…