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 ...
Author: charlie
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...
Challenge update: entering the last month
This past year, I’ve challenged myself to do one meaningful project a month. While building embedded electronics and printing objects can be fun, I wanted...
Old technique, new tools: Lithophanes
This month*, with impending graduations of some family members, I wanted to do something that I could give as a gift. I knew I wanted it to be an image, and, wi...
Death and deathlessness
In my year-long challenge, I’ve been thinking of ways to make the intangible tangible. For example, what does contagion look like, or Black Lives Matter, ...
Project: I’ve been shot (COVID-19 vaccine badge)
Back in January, when I was pondering my Jan-Feb project (for my year-long challenge), members of my family were starting to get vaccinated. Since I’ve be...
Project: For all time
Some great projects are very personal. Or, at least, only the maker really understands the driving forces that led to the creation. And, yes, this is one of tho...
The back and forthing when selecting microcontrollers for my projects
The tools we use not only deliver the experience we wish to build, but also shape the experience. So when I think of what will be the brains of my project, the ...
Ever-evolving organizational management
I’ve been full-out making for about twenty months (as I count them). As I get deeper into building more complex projects based on microcontrollers, bare c...
Making at the molecular level
The way everyone has been tracking and talking about viral variants of COVID-19 has been quite interesting. The start of the pandemic was a live-lab teaching mo...