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...
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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...
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...
COVID-themed Halloween fun, and more
As Halloween approached, I thought I could have some fun and make something to put on my front stoop. I figured a Coronavirus would make a great and thematicall...
How I made my Game of Life: Contagion Mode, Rose Garden Massacre Edition
A few months back, I made a Multimode Game of Life (GoL) that could do the usual GoL, a mode with two populations coexisting, a mode where one population compet...