A tale of two-ish keyboards

A month or so ago I came across a video about someone building their own keyboard. I was sort of fascinated by the project because I'd noticed how my hands became contorted whenever I needed to type. My dad had owned an Apple ergonomic keyboard when was a teenager, and I'd used it lots of times while I was playing my way through Myst. I didn't ever really [...]

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Aaron Eiche Podcast, Episode 3

  March 31, 2012
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It only took me 10 months, but I made another podcast. Actually I did #2, but never released it. Apologies for poor sound quality/recording/levels. I'm still figuring this [...]

My Favorite Christmas Specials

  December 18, 2011
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I love Christmas. I love it. I wouldn't pin it on the notion of getting a bunch of free stuff though. That is exciting, but the season and the build up are far better than [...]

School

  June 15, 2011
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Even though this blog is at AaronEiche.com, I tend not to make it very personal. It's mostly because I don't really want to expose most of my personal life to the slings and [...]

Aaron Eiche Podcast, Episode 1

  May 7, 2011
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Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm a bit of a performer and after listening to podcasts for years now, I've finally broken down and made one. [...]

Well now what? (My new laptop)

  April 8, 2011
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We have a handful of computers in our house. My Desktop, my wife's Desktop, our media/backup server, and a netbook. The netbook's job was relatively simple. It lived in the [...]

Back on the 3D-Printed Horse

  January 10, 2011
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Several months ago, I finally got my hands on a mostly-working 3d printer. A maker bot. After irritated months of tinkering, I had trouble getting it to print out things that [...]

Blurring the Lines in Digital Content Shifting

  January 3, 2011
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I ran into a dilemma today that I never expected to run into and it has to do with fairness when it comes to digital property. I'm an advocate of time-shifting and [...]

I’m in a Show

  November 10, 2010
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A couple of months ago, I decided to try out for a musical my church is putting on. I have been cast in the part of Charlie Davenport in "Annie Get Your Gun". We have 3 [...]

Last Minute Halloween

  November 5, 2010
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I've always been very taken with Halloween setups. The orchestration, the excitement, and creativity all lead to a fun expression of the holiday. Halloween has taken it's [...]

My First Printed Plastic Part

  July 6, 2010
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I have been working at this for months. A couple of years ago, I found out about the RepRap project. The idea behind the reprap (if you haven't talked to me recently) is to [...]