We have a Yamaha player piano that I have been using off and on for around 15 years. It needed some work to maintain the hammers and make sure it can record correctly.
Published 2023-02-06
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Published 2023-01-23
Replacing headphone cable with port
I was getting tired of soldering new a new cable on my headphones every few months, so I replaced the cable with a female 3.5mm headphone jack on the headphones. This is a cheap and easy improvement to any pair of wired headphones.
Published 2023-01-09
Car headrest for office chair
My office chair was pretty nice with a spot for a headrest to attach, but mine came without the headrest accessory. I decided it was worth a bit of effort, so I cobbled one together.
Published 2023-01-02
Lessons learned installing solid tires
I have now installed solid tires on 3 bicycles and been very happy with them each time. This is an overview of installing Tannus solid tires that includes lessons I have learned by doing it wrong so that you don’t have to learn the same lessons the hard way. This…
Published 2022-12-17
Solid bicycle tires are great
Last summer I blew out the tires on my road bike. They were kind of thin, and commonly punctured by the tack-shaped goat head thorns that we have everywhere in Loveland, CO. Fast forward to now, I am on the way to replacing all of my bicycle tires with solid tires, and I would recommend them to everyone. This post will cover what solid tires are and why they are awesome.
Published 2022-11-14
Window well covers
In the winter, the window well right next to my desk tends to fill with snow, and the area near the window where I work becomes unpleasantly cold. Our house had steel mesh window well covers to keep animals out, but this year I decided to replace them with clear…
Published 2022-09-02
Pegboards for home office
My office is a small desk against a window in between two cabinets, so I 3D-printed some brackets to hang the pegboard from the cabinets, as well as a couple useful things to hang on them.
Published 2022-08-13
Steam Deck stand with removable dock
I wanted a Steam Deck stand but couldn’t find any that met all of my requirements, so I designed my own. This stand holds the system at a 10 degree angle and has a replaceable USB-C dock mounting bracket.
Published 2022-07-28
Star chart magnet board
My friends recently had a baby, and I made them this magnet board as a gift. It’s an idea that I have been thinking about for a while as a gift to commemorate an important occasion.
The stars on the magnet board are arranged as a stereoscopic projection of the sky as you would have seen it (ignoring the atmosphere) if you were to turn North and look up when and where their baby was born, and the reflective area each star points is proportional the absolute magnitude of the star it represents.
Published 2022-07-10
King of Flavor MSG shaker
My wife and I are fans of Nigel Ng and particularly like his Uncle Roger videos, so my brother Morgan Jones and I made her an orange-polo-shaped MSG shaker as a gift for her birthday.