Category Archives: projects
Working on the porch
Before I left, I spent some time making our horrible deck not so horrible. Which I somehow managed to not take any before pictures. So, picture this: But with some benches around it that were falling apart because carpenter bees … Continue reading
Making an iPhone Dock
Margo has an iPhone and a little speaker dock thing to make it play music louder as she does stuff around the house. It is OK, but I’ve always felt the phone doesn’t get a lot of support and I’ve … Continue reading
I’ve been playing in my shop.
I’ve not had a lot of shop time this year. Part of that is from spending most of the year so far in Ghana, Saudi and Ivory Coast. Finally, I got home and coerced Margo into helping to make the … Continue reading
4TB Hard drive
Absolutely huge. I’ve been thinking about taking my HTPC, loading it down with terrabytes of space and load all of my movies into it. I’m not sure if I can justify the 650 dollars at this point. I need a … Continue reading
Computer repair
I’ve got a Toshiba Tablet PC that has had a noisy fan for a few years. It is annoying, but since we don’t use it that often and it is the heatsink fan on a latop, which makes it hard … Continue reading
My latest woodworking project
So for the china cabinet, I decided that instead of spending 10 dollars to buy plate stands, I’d spend 30 dollars a make them. A decent idea. I cut the pieces to the size I wanted, drilled holes for the … Continue reading
Little Bits
These are pretty cool. They remove the hard part of electronic design. It would be neat if this could be used and pushed by teachers into school science programs and try to get more kids interested in electronics in time … Continue reading
I made a birdhouse
Margo wanted to watch the neighborhood birds. So I figured since I am starting out and a Birdhouse is a My First Shop Project sort of thing, I got to work. And made like 20 horrible and deformed birdhouse before … Continue reading
GPS
I had a TomTom Go for about 3 years. I’d tried several laughable attempts at making my own, but finally I decided it is easier and cheaper to go with an off the shelf unit. About a month ago, it … Continue reading
Stop Motion Music Video
A tribute to The Thing. The song is repetitive, the the animation is smooth considering they are using G.I. Joe men. I like stop motion animation. Something about it appeals to me. I’d rather stop motion over the CG messes … Continue reading