A blog of a variety of projects
This is a very simple and quick project. The whole thing took about 10 minutes, given that I already had the lamp, carved pumpkin, and cloak. I keep some of these Ikea floor lamps around because they are simple and useful. I usually buy extras when we go to Ikea…
After our dogs dug up all the grass in our backyard and we had two gigantic trees removed, we decided to build a seating area for a fire pit. The yard is covered in wood chips for the dogs, so it needed to be big enough to prevent a stray…
In the middle of softmodding my new/old Wii, I happily remembered that I don’t use Windows anymore. Wii game backup is very effective when used with a filesystem called Wii Backup File System (WBFS) that was invented by a very smart and productive Wii hacker codenamed Waninkoko. FAT32 filesystems have…
We have been working on big projects recently, like landscaping our yards, but in the meantime I did a little bit of repair work for a friend. I am trying to post more frequently, so here is a little article about repairing a broken USB drive. A friend of mine…
The Neopixel RGB Visualizer project page is up with more detail about the project than is on GitHub. Check it out here. I didn’t publish a post related to this project, since the site went up right at the end of it, so I am publishing this retroactive plug for…
After getting back into Magic: The Gathering recently, I sought a way to create a deck using software. I found several options, none of which were EXACTLY what I wanted. Something always irritated me: card filters too simple card filters too complex unable to bulk copy cards from one deck…
I played a lot of piano over the holidays, and by January I noticed that a couple of keys were beginning to make a fairly annoying clicking sound when the hammer struck. Opening the piano up, I found that the heads of the offending hammers were loose. Hiring someone to…
This was the first Halloween that we celebrated in our new house! With that in mind, we made the groundwork for 2 multi-holiday decorations that we will reuse for each holiday. We used picture wire, but any kind of hanger will work to get these hung up on a wall…
This project started with 10 second-hand office cabinets purchased from Ben’s Repurposed Cabinetry in Loveland, Colorado.The set of 10 frameless base cabinets ran $295 and was delivered right into the garage. I flipped them over, removed their feet, and installed shorter ones. The cabinets were a bit tall for a…
