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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Weekend Project: Wireless outlet control
I mentioned briefly in my post about controlling LEDs with my Amazon Echo that I have some wireless outlet switches that I wanted to control. At the time I didn't have a [...]
Weekend Project: Amazon Echo LED Control
As I mentioned last week, I got an Amazon Echo for Christmas. The first time I heard about it I thought "Meh, I already have a phone that does that". Then I heard people [...]
“It’s a Wonderful Life”
I love this movie. Hykel... less so.
I mostly like the first half, everything up to uncle Billy losing the money. In my most recent viewing, I skipped everything after that [...]
Boxing day
Did you know the day after Christmas is boxing day? You probably did. I think most people know, but the celebration thereof is often limited to countries that belong to the [...]
Alexa, write a post on my blog
Today is Christmas, It was a wonderful day of exchanging gifts with my wife, playing with new toys, enjoying each other's company, and basically laying about. One of the [...]
Christmas Eve Party!
I am in my mid-thirties. In spite of this, Christmas brings out the 6-year-old in me, and I very often will wake up early on Christmas morning. We figured that if we could [...]
Adventures in Baking… erm, Frying?
I enjoy baking a lot. I have ever since I was a kid. In a lot of ways, I think baking is just another form of being a Maker: Creating something on your own, and being able [...]
Roomba-ing with a Raspberry Pi
We've owned a Roomba for years. I wanted one for a few years before that and the thing that has been most attractive about it to me has been the ability to hack it. When I [...]
Poor OpSec at the North Pole
Hykel and I watched Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice a couple of nights ago. Everything I'm going to talk about should be ignored mostly because this is a fun Christmas [...]
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