I used basically the same method as the wizards except I made the bases oblong or circles. I used mostly transparent acrylic to differentiate the monsters from the wizards. The troll is based on the original Monster Manual picture. The
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I cut the wizards out of different color acrylic. The basic design was a wizard, the base, and a holder. The holder is for a place to keep the treasure with the wizard. I found someone’s design on the net
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I was going through some old electronics and found a slide scanner that plugged into an HP scanner and took it apart. The insides look like a fluorescent shop light with only one bulb. I found out it ran on
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Unfortunately, Mike flipped his truck on a slippery on ramp during a snow storm. Fortunately, he was not injured. Unfortunately, the truck was a loss. Luckily, the weather was bad enough so I had a snow day and I could
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Having a Christmas tree, I got requests for a menorah. I realized that programming it would be the easy part, and the only idea I had for the candles were transfer rollers. Transfer rollers are used in laser printers to
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In part 1, we learned that splitting a gray scale image into a background and a transparent foreground, we need to do is solve $T=B(1-\alpha )+F\alpha $ with variables T (target gray), B (background gray), F, (foreground gray) and the
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(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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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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