Les – Page 4 – Annals of the Buddha with the 'Tude

December 7, 2019 Les

Harpo Marx soundbox Android app

This is a rewrite of my first Android app – a Harpo Marx soundbox. I sampled Harpo’s horn and whistles from several movies. I don’t own anything but the code, so I can’t really post it in any app store.

November 30, 2019 Les

Computer Cigarette Lighter

A loooong time ago, I saw an ad for a cigarette lighter drive for a computer. It was only fourteen dollars, but I’d thought it would be more fun to make one myself. Lighters run on 12 volts and I

November 30, 2019 Les

Scanner prank

I had this old broken scanner for years. Even if it wasn’t broken, it required a SCSI card that wouldn’t fit in any computer made in the last ten years. But I liked the scanner ‘container’ and I’ll use the

November 30, 2019 Les

Chocolate Chips – fail

I bought some cooking grade silicone for another project (not yet posted). I had some extra mixed silicone from that project so I poured it over a ram chip. The detail of the chip came out really nice. When I

October 13, 2019 Les

24/7 Polka Heaven Android app

Note: this version no longer works on newer phones. It’s on my list to fix it. My second Android app. My grandparents listened to polkas all the time. I find them kind of relaxing. Then I found an online streaming

August 5, 2019 Les

Dice Tower

This was my summer of 2018 laser cutter project. (See my Roddy Piper Tribute on why I have to use the laser cutter at work.) I wanted to design my own dice tower, and I wanted it to be strong

August 5, 2019 Les

Hell Detector

Silliness. I found this picture when I was sorting through some things. I didn’t even know I had it. I made this well over ten years ago and I have no clue if/where it exists today. I was having a

August 5, 2019 Les

Backwards Clock

One day at work, the janitors were throwing away a twelve inch clock because it was broken. I grabbed it up because I knew I could do something with it. A long time ago, my mother made me a clock

August 5, 2019 Les

KenKen Helper Progam

Not only do I like Kakuro (see Kakuro Helper), I like KenKen. I wrote a helper program in ’11 which still works, but I recently updated it to a newer version. Download new KenKen Helper 16K; Uses .NET MD5 for

May 8, 2019 Les

Server Cabinets

Originally this was the Novell server at Kentson when I started working there. When it came time to dump it, I thought it was too pretty to throw away. So, my friend George helped me put on a handle, some