In my office, I like to have a cup of pens and pencils sitting around at all times. All the pens go in one bucket and any more organization is beyond me. A long time ago I decided I wanted to put my mug of pens somewhere off the desk,…
Category: 3D Printing
Projects that involve 3D printing at some point.
Ikea hack: desk chair headphone hanger
I love my headphones, which is good, because I wear them like 10 hours a day. On my old chair, I would just hang my headphones over the back because the back of the chair was about as thick as my head. Recently, I got a new JÄRVFJÄLLET office chair…
USB switch and wire shelf desk improvements
I finally organized the wires that were all over my desk with a customized USB switch and a wire shelf inside my desk.
D to AA battery adapter
We have a train-station-style Ikea wall clock that I really like, but it chews through batteries pretty fast, at least on one side. There are actually 2 clock mechanisms back-to-back, so they were mercifully designed to be smooth and not clicky. On the other hand, that means it doesn’t fail…
Door hinge stop moulding spacer
This is a simple little shim to help mount a door hinge slightly further away from the door frame stop moulding.
House project blog: Kitchen floor molding
Since we have moved in to our new house, I have been putting off finishing the kitchen cabinets with trim. I finally got around to working on it and finished the floor molding. First, there is a gap between the pantry and the wall. The wall wasn’t plumb, so we…
King of Flavor MSG Shaker V2
Now with additional food safety! Fuiyoh!
House project blog: kitchen cabinets
This was a long time ago now, but we have been too busy on uninteresting repair projects for me to be able to keep up with blogging. I started writing this near the end of last year, when our kitchen was nearly done. We have been living with it at…
Door handle wall bumper
I was looking around our house for things to fix, and I saw a lot of places where there was a small hole in the drywall caused by a door handle. I was going to patch all of these with drywall, but I knew it would eventually happen again, even…
Ikea hack – Pegboard lamp mount v2
After receiving some feedback and doing additional testing, I designed a new version of my Ikea Tertial pegboard mount that is much stronger and easier to print.