This was a summer of 1993 project. In Star Trek, we only had six movies, the original series, the animated series, in the sixth season of The Next Generation and the first of Deep Space Nine. Terry helped me make
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COIP 2.0
For my original Coffee Over IP project, I pulled a network jack off of something and glued it to my coffee mug. Not a serious project, just something silly to do, and it got people to take a second look.
Continue readingPhantasm Mobile of Death
I had this old mobile that I was going to reuse to make my own, but I never came up with any good ideas. Sometime after watching Phantasm V that it hit me – a mobile with every killer sphere
Continue readingCoffin Dice Tray(s)
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
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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
Continue readingKeyboard Circuit Lampshades
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,
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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
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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
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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,
Continue readingFrankenstein’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
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