Author: Les

The idea was make a dice tray that doesn’t take up too much space. With D&D, the table gets filled with boards, maps, and books, so space is at a premium. So I came upon the idea to make it

I had been saving obsolete RAM chips for over a decade before even starting this project with the intent of making a Christmas tree. You can see the 8-bit chips at the top. That’s how long I was saving chips

I’ve seen pictures of lampshades constructed out of the circuits out of old keyboards. While they’re ‘printed’ on thin flexible plastic, they’re mostly clear, so I assume they used a small wattage bulb. I kind of needed a new lampshade,

The Seagate U Series 5 ST340823A (40M) had a look unlike any other hard drive. It had a rubber case that slipped over the drive, almost like a car bra. It also had a strong silver tape over the gap

This is not as much a project as it is a victory. I like the versatility of old PCs. They make handy stools for working at most tech tables. Chairs take up more space and you have to pull it

I became fascinated with the star ornaments made from six squares. They look really cool made out of stained glass. I thougth the best way to learn the geometry would be to make them. I don’t have any stained glass,

Blast from the past. The Movie Monsters book is copyrighted 1975, so that’s about the time I would have made this – grade school/early high school. The book gave directions to make a paper mache Frankenstein’s monster’s head. I remember

Every computer tech knows that computers are not an exact science. We use methods that we know work, not because they make any sense. Plus, some people believe we work ‘magic’ and that’s because we do. I’ve been in the