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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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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.
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Holiday Lights Display
Like you no doubt, I’ve come across animated holiday light displays on YouTube, and occasionally around my neighborhood, and looked on with some envy. Not this year! This year I pursued a simple, but ultimately functional computer-controlled holiday light display of my own.
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3D Printed Laminar Fountains
I have come across laminar flow fountains a few times in my life. The earliest I can remember is the jumping fountains at Epcot when I was a kid. More recently I wanted to see if I could replicate the experience at home. I’ve had a couple of ideas for these kinds of fountains, and…
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Emulator in a GamePak™
Way back in October or something, a coworker of mine asked if I had a glue gun he could borrow. He was in town from the UK for a couple of months, and was interested in building a PiCart – a video game emulator packaged in an NES game cart. Rather than give him a glue…
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How I added a custom commentary track to a movie
A couple of years back, one of my favorite podcaster/writer/tour-de-forces, Andy Ihnatko released a commentary track for the 1954 holiday classic White Christmas. It’s a hilarious and fascinating dissection of the film and since I heard it, I’ve wanted to figure out a way I could add the commentary support to my copy of the film…