I cut the wizards out of different color acrylic. The basic design was a wizard, the base, and a holder. The holder is for a place to keep the treasure with the wizard. I found someone’s design on the net
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I cut the wizards out of different color acrylic. The basic design was a wizard, the base, and a holder. The holder is for a place to keep the treasure with the wizard. I found someone’s design on the net
Continue readingI wanted to add some more boards to my game, and seein’ as how the acrylic I was pulling out of flat-screens was piling up, I decided to give it a try. The first one I just cut out of
Continue readingI was going through some old electronics and found a slide scanner that plugged into an HP scanner and took it apart. The insides look like a fluorescent shop light with only one bulb. I found out it ran on
Continue readingUnfortunately, Mike flipped his truck on a slippery on ramp during a snow storm. Fortunately, he was not injured. Unfortunately, the truck was a loss. Luckily, the weather was bad enough so I had a snow day and I could
Continue readingHaving a Christmas tree, I got requests for a menorah. I realized that programming it would be the easy part, and the only idea I had for the candles were transfer rollers. Transfer rollers are used in laser printers to
Continue readingI made seven of the ‘official’ Wiz-War boards out of birch plywood. I used 1/4″ for the base, 1/8″ for the walls, and 1/16″ for the doors. I settled on making the boards eight inches across. I made laser cutter
Continue readingIn part 1, we learned that splitting a gray scale image into a background and a transparent foreground, we need to do is solve $T=B(1-\alpha )+F\alpha $ with variables T (target gray), B (background gray), F, (foreground gray) and the
Continue readingPart of the Wiz-War project. The idea hit me when I found out you can buy blank playing cards. Terry had made his own Wiz-War game a while back that was pretty good (the game first came out in ’85)
Continue reading(fun with the vinyl cutter printer – making stickers) and here… and here… You can get refrigerator magnet sheets and attach the stickers so they can go on refrigerators, whiteboards, and laser cutters. They’ll even stick to vehicles. This one
Continue readingWhile writing my program for visual cryptography, I noticed that each pixel in a picture could gets it’s own value of an alpha transparency. While I couldn’t find a way to make it useful, I recently returned to the project
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