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

April 1, 2020 Les

Frankenstein’s Monster Head

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

December 7, 2019 Les

The Foodoo Collection

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

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