Author: aeiche
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A house made of sweets
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 year, I decided to attempt a family-activity of making confectionary constructions.
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Christmas Lights Snowflake Prop!
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 didn’t really have a 3D printer that I could rely upon, and I had…
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The Macintosh SAO
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.
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Finding a lost song
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 could (at best) sort of hum the tune. Music identity apps were not any help.…
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My favorite thing about 3D Printing
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 be. That you can make the thing you want, exactly how you want it. A…
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Christmas Countdown!
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 hadn’t seen anywhere else. So I started working on an ornament that would count down…
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Random Childhood Memory – Doctor Who
(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 – specifically an episode with Dinosaurs in it. I’m sure that the dinosaurs were the reason…
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Christmas Lights 2021!
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 reality pretty rapidly. What I’ve learned from the past, is how to design a project…
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Musical Jack O’ Lanterns
This year for Halloween decorations, I built and sequenced a music and light show featuring Jack O’ Lanterns.
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Getting it wrong
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 never successfully accomplished this.