Pause for station identification
I’ve been posting these pauses for almost 17 years. They are meant to give folks a quick overview of where I am at, but when I look at them, they serve a ...
Tag: maker
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...
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: 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...
Another tangible concept: seeing through time
I finally finished my second project of my year’s project challenge. OK, I had planned to finish it three weeks ago, but life is needy. In any case, here ...
Project hiccups already
Today is the 16th of the month. I had challenged myself to a project a month (from 15th to 15th – don’t ask). My first project was a multi-mode game...
Multi-mode Game of Life
I’ve reached the end of the first month of my year-long monthly project challenge.* The first project I went with was a version of Conway’s Game of ...