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I was surfing around on YouTube one day and ran across a project presented by a version personable British fellow who wanted to teach me how to make my own configurable lighting panels which he called NanoLeaf. These are similar but different from a product called NanoLeaf Shapes which you Read more…

A couple years ago I decided I needed a logo. Something to put on things that I make when I want to identify that I made them. I wanted something simple and easy to read. This is what I came up with: I liked it so well that it was Read more…

My lovely daughter-in-law texted me an image a while back and asked if I could make her some organizers for canning jar lids. I immediately responded that of course I could! Then my laser broke. Sigh. What should have been an easy project became a much lengthy one because I Read more…

One of my recent games that I played was Star Wars: Outlaws. it was good. Not great, but good. I would describe it as a fairly typical Ubisoft game that benefitted from having the Star Wars Universe to play in. It included familiar places like Tatooine and Mos Eisley and Read more…

There’s a wall in our place where they installed all the breaker boxes. Makes for easy access, but it’s not exactly attractive. In fact, it looks a lot like the inside wall of a garage (which is what it likely was at one point). So, the notion I had was, Read more…

Back about three years ago, I printed and painted a version of a little robot called Eddie. You can read about it here. Sadly, in the move from our previous house to this one, poor Eddie got jostled about quite a bit and broke both his legs. Unfortunately, the resin Read more…

Prior to the Christmas Holiday last year (2023), I was noodling on something to make. At the same time, I was scrolling through some woodworking projects and I stumbled on the idea of an “Everyday Carry” Tray. Typically I only have a few things that I carry every day and Read more…

You know those days where you’re noodling about what you might make and it occurs to you that you don’t have a full-sized human skull and somehow that surprises you? It surprised me. So I made one. I poked around a bit and found a model that was sufficiently detailed. Read more…

This project also was kind of a spur of the moment thing. I was watching the new Fallout television show on Amazon Prime (which was very good!) and one of the main three characters eventually came into possession of one of the game’s iconic 10mm pistols. While the pistol is Read more…