Project: Spotify “like” Shortcut
I built a silent, tap-based Apple Shortcut that lets me like the currently playing song on Spotify. Y’see, often my phone is in my pocket when I listen to...
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Project: God Box – tangible prayers, with a twist
I’ve had an idea bouncing around my head for years. In a conversation with Dan Alroy, I forget what we were talking about, he mentioned a God Box. Basical...
Project: Space Invaders game, in collaboration with Claude
About two years ago, I was at one of my Hardware Happy Hour evenings and one of the guys showed what he was doing with generative AI. He showed a logo he’...
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 ...
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...