Riffing off a rant about technology
I stumbled upon a brief rant on technology by Ursula LeGuin via The Prepared. Great stuff. Alas, I required a bit more than a tweet for me to riff off of it. &#...
Category: The Narrative
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...
You think you know how EEPROMs fail? Think again.
The Death and Deathlessness* project was my exploration of life, death, and immortality. EEPROMs, the permanent memory in some chips, have finite life for writi...
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...
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...