Project: Bruins 100-year anniversary sign
I had mentioned an earlier project where I hacked the parts of some solar deck lights, where the lights were cheaper than me buying all the parts myself. So of ...
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Mosaic of things that draw life from light: finishing a project
Back in May, I mentioned a project that I was working on, inspired from a line in a book, leading me to hack solar deck lights. I just want to say that I finall...
Going with the reflow: building my own oven for Level One Manufacturing
A while back I read an interesting article that placed hobbyists making things (Level 1 – 1-100 units) on the same axis as big manufactures (Level 3 ̵...
Project: “My heart beats for you”
I was inspired by this clever little Valentine’s Day card from the delightfully creative Charlyn (left), made with a wee Trinket M0 (a fave of mine), Neop...
Living the IoT dream: adding to my vaccine fridge monitor
In a previous post, I talked about how I worked on a vaccine fridge monitor that was designed to alert me over Pushover if anything was going on with the fridge...
How I’ve built an LTE-based vaccines fridge monitor
Everyone these days knows the importance of keeping vaccines safe and functional. This is the same, of course, with veterinary vaccines. A local veterinarian I ...
Building this gyro watch winder was like jazz
Isn’t making one big jam session? Many decades ago, my mother bought my father a Tissot Seastar Seven. A very simple watch, which also has its own pendulu...
Looking back at a challenging challenge year
I recently completed the final project of my year-long challenge to make a project a month from 15jul20 to 15jul21. This marks the end of my second year of maki...
Last challenge project: Tree of Life, with a twist
Here is my final project of my year-long challenge. I was on target to finish it on time, but life has a way and I ended up finishing it about a week late. But ...
Project: Firefly
My latest challenge project was selected already last year when I set the challenge. As this had to do with fireflies, I knew I had to have it ready for early J...