Archive of posts with category 'Personal'
I’ve had a few projects I’d done kicking around that didn’t really warrant their own articles.
I’ve been making in universe letters and posters as part of a Pathfinder game I’ve been playing. They started out as something my character roleplayed producing, but they’ve become a...
Unfortunately, the custom magic card creation tool Card Conjurer has been taken down by Wizards of the Coast. However, you can still use the tool if you run it locally....
After watching a clip from the insane Alex Jones Cross trial, I thought it would be funny to make a Phoenix Wright reenactment.
While I don’t have much time to make things, I have managed to do a few small projects involving my daughter.
I recycled some wooden boxes into card organizers. Mostly an effort in making art suitable for the laser cutter .
For an update on the custom card creator Card Conjurer mentioned in this article see this update: Running Card Conjurer Locally
My daughter was born 12/30/2021. This project was certainly more of an effort from my wife than me, though I saved the 100th article spot for the occasion.
I realized that I’m approaching my 100th article on this site. I wanted to take a look back at over the last 18 years of making things and see how...
I’ve been doing some entry level carpentry to make the TV’s around the house a little weirder.
After playing a game of Magic the Gathering with a friends kids, I decided to see if there was a way to get back in the game without taking out...
Since the last article was on the female side of fertility why not switch to the male? Yo produces a test kit to measure sperm count. It’s main selling point...
In starting to try to have a baby, my wife got a digital device to track her hormones. Who am I to turn down an opportunity to reverse engineer something?...
I had a really cool 3 position key switch that I’ve been trying to come up for a use for. I decided to make an IoT controller that could turn...
I wrote a quick script to solve a logic grid puzzle in Dishonored 2. It probably would be a decent tool for solving arbitrary logic grid puzzles.
For a non-software related project my wife and I recently had a chance to paint some miniatures for our DnD characters.
Another simple “home automation” project. My wife mentioned it would be nice to have a way to keep track of when the cat litter was last cleaned. This is a...
For something a little different, I thought I’d look at the process I went through to optimize a solution in the game Exapunks.
As gift for my wife’s birthday I wanted to make something to celebrate our shared time with the game Fire Emblem Three Houses. I was originally inspired by a light...
Over the holidays I spent some time on craft projects. Really enjoyed having access to my tools and materials after not being able to craft much while traveling.
Today I decided to break out a Alesis Q45 midi keyboard that I’ve had lying around. Much to my dismay, my computer had trouble detecting it. Looking at the device...
On a recent trip to Hong Kong, we visited an area called Cat Street to look for souvenirs. One thing that caught my eye, was a model of mechanical clock...
I’ve done a little GIF creation and pixel editting in the past, but I wanted to take another stab at making a sprite. I eventually found the awesome free program...
Here’s a bunch of other old projects I dug up while updating the site that I’m throwing together into a pile. This time programming!
This is another old one from back in college. I stuffed a microcontroller in a rotary phone to act as a stage in a scavenger hunt puzzle. When the phone...
Here’s a bunch of other old projects I dug up while updating the site that I’m throwing together into a pile.
Finally got around to framing and hanging my undergraduate diploma. I originally wanted to do something a little more elaborate, but after so many years of gathering dust, I decided...
Awhile back my great aunt asked me for some resources on learning about computers. I’d thought I’d upload the conversation to save it for posterity.
As a decorative project for the apartment, Maria and I made a mobile of eyeballs.
Maria got the idea for these ornaments at http://tallystreasury.com/2010/12/paper-ornaments-its-magic/
A gift I made for Maria. Uses mana rocks to unlock a treasure.
My 2016 Halloween costume. I made the mask, and Maria made the dress! Almost everything was handmade except for one layer of the skirt, the white wig, and one of...
One more high voltage project from highschool. This is a really simple ion thruster setup called a “lifter”
Another classic, I actually modified this one over the course of a couple years making a super sketchy cordless phone controlled version.
Wow this is an old one. I’ve decided to go back and write up some of the first projects I did.
After having a flaky VPS host for a year or so decided to switch to a new slightly less flaky host. I tried to remove some of the weird custom...
Halloween 2015 costume. It’s loosly based on the Crimson King from Steven King’s Dark Tower series. Here’s the thrift store junk that inspired it.
Another set of puzzle pieces I made back in the day.
Halloween 2014 costume. It’s loosly based on the King in Yellow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow. Here’s the thrift store junk that inspired it.
I wanted to do another electrical project that focused on aesthetics. While looking at thrift stores for material for another project I saw some pieces that inspired me. I decided...
I decided to recreate a sculpture I saw while in Spain for my Optometrist to be brother. A very simple project, but I had fun making the lenticular eye.
Infinity mirrors are an optical illusion that gives the impression of a long corridor, by sandwiching some lights between two mirrored surfaces. I’ve been interested in trying to make a...
Here’s a quick hack I through together to prevent jerks from ringing my doorbell late at night.
Over the holidays I wanted to come up with a simple project that could be somewhat streamlined for “mass production”. I’ve always liked working with clay and decided to make...
My brother and I used to watch the anime Outlaw Star together as kids, so I decided to get him something based on the show as a gift this year. Being...
Here’s a quick project that came together the evening before a long vacation. In order to get a little piece of mind I wanted to set up a simple security...
This is a very simple evolution simulator.
A hollowed out book that works as a keyboard controlled locking safe.
This is a simple demo that builds a video game level based on the content of a webpage.
