(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
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Playing with Alpha Channels – part 1
While 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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This idea started when I found out I could buy blank dice and put anything I wanted on them. This led to a wonderful journey of tests to make a magic 8-ball that gave sarcastic answers. Step 1: How do
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This is almost thirty years old and I forgot I had it ’til I was cleaning up some things. Back in the day, I was renting a room in John’s first house. I didn’t have access to many resources and
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One day, I saw a student gluing cardboard squares together to make a cube. It occurred to me that by using the raster and vector settings on the laser cutter, I could cut out an unfolded square and score the
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This was a summer of 1993 project. In Star Trek, we only had six movies, the original series, the animated series, in the sixth season of The Next Generation and the first of Deep Space Nine. Terry helped me make
Continue readingFun With Visual Cryptography – Part One
I love browsing the blogs at datagenetics. I had never heard of visual cryptography until I read this page: https://www.datagenetics.com/blog/november32013/ It’s a way to combine pixelated images to make another image. I have yet to research color visual cryptography, so
Continue readingCOIP 2.0
For my original Coffee Over IP project, I pulled a network jack off of something and glued it to my coffee mug. Not a serious project, just something silly to do, and it got people to take a second look.
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I had this old mobile that I was going to reuse to make my own, but I never came up with any good ideas. Sometime after watching Phantasm V that it hit me – a mobile with every killer sphere
Continue readingChord Builder V2
I wrote the first version of this back in 2006. After buying an Ibanez 8-string, I updated it in 2009 to have options of four to eight strings. You can select the root and any intervals for the chord. You
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