• There’s a video produced by Tasty from several years ago featuring making gingerbread houses. I watch it every year because I enjoy their videos and the Christmas music makes my heart happy. After a mixed-success of making my own last…

  • A few years back as I was starting to build out my Holiday light setup, I remember watching a video where the host said “3D printing is what really takes this hobby to the next level.” Up until last Christmas,…

  • I attended the 2024 Hackaday Supercon conference this year. I wanted to take something special to share. So I made a little electronics badge that acts a little like an Original Macintosh.

  • Have you ever had a song or a jingle or something from your youth that you couldn’t quite place? And you casually look for it occasionally without any success. I have such a song. It has no lyrics, and I…

  • I’ve been doing 3D Printing for a long time. Most of the time not very successfully, but still doing it. The reason I’ve held onto it for so long, more than any other, is the promise of what it can…

  • Sometime in 2016 I came up with an idea for a project: A Christmas ornament that counted the number of days, hours, minutes, and seconds until Christmas. But I wanted it to be nerdy and interesting, and something that I…

  • (This was posted on Facebook and Google+ on Sept 29, 2013. I’ve duplicated (and expanded on) it here so I always have it. When I was a kid, I remember (very vaguely) my dad watching Doctor Who on PBS –…

  • You may recall last year I took my first step into Sequenced, animated Christmas lights with some arches and simple light strings. I had some grand plans this year to follow up, but as usual my plans came up against…

  • This year for Halloween decorations, I built and sequenced a music and light show featuring Jack O’ Lanterns.

  • I’ve been working on a particular project for the past five years. I had this great idea for a Christmas ornament and I wanted to see it realized and on my Christmas tree. For a variety of reasons, I have…