This page is really only for family and friends. It won’t mean much to most people. If you’re one of those, move on. There’s lots of other stuff on the internet to look at. The only reason I don’t block
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Laser cut Roddy Piper tribute
The art department at work has a laser cutter and I HAVE to use it. If the cutter goes too long without being used, the gases can separate and it can cost a few thousand dollars to fix. So, during
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This is my first completed Arduino project. I kept searching the net for a Unix time* clock to buy and I could never find one. So I made my own. It displays Unix / Epoch time in decimal and hexadecimal.
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Book folding is the art of folding pages in a book to make a picture. The cool thing is that you’re not cutting anything and the pages can be unfolded to restore the original book. The first time I saw
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I found an old Sandisk SDDR-05 flash reader. A co-worker made a disparaging remark about it being white so… I always thought it looked like some creature with glowing eyes. It might have been designed to look like that, but
Continue readingKakuro Helper Program
I love playing Kakuro too much. I wrote a program a while back to help me play. I hardly use it anymore ’cause it’s helped me become a better player, so I don’t need it as much. Newer versions of
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I did this one well over a decade ago. Parts are pretty simple – an old AT motherboard, two mice, dowel rods, and picture hanging hardware. I’d make more, but these days, motherboards are more square than oblong. I’d like
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For many, many years, I’ve visited my friend Dale at least once a week, mostly to play with his kids. And I always bring dessert for the evening. One night, the kids griped a bit when dessert wasn’t up to
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Not entirely original. I saw an old picture of someone that made one and had to make one of my own. Tape up the keyboard really tight before you saw a piece out of it. You’ll have to glue partial
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