Category Jekyll
Rangefinder RestoMod Part 1
For the past couple of years, I have been shooting film again, mainly with 60s and 70s era rangefinder cameras. The idea of creating a restomod film camera began with...
The Flat Lamp
I call low warm lighting cozy. My wife calls it dark. As a result I have agreed to design a bright (though still warm) for our first floor, but because...
Birthday Cranes
For my 60th birthday, my family along with nieces and nephews took me out to dinner to Changsho, a local Chinese resturant. The napkins at the table were held in...
Drawer Pulls from Bathroom Tiles
Last year my wife and I were designing pulls for our cabinet and we came up with for matching pieces. I cut them out of a spare bathroom tile from...
The Jib Crane
A year ago, I designed and built a jib crane in order to move our planter boxes over our deck railing. My wife designed the railing with planter box cradles...
Brother AX-350 (the keyboard)
After completing the software and hardware for sending SMS messages to a Panasonic T36, I decided to attempt the same on a Brother AX-350. The Brother is slightly newer, 1991...
The Texting Typewriter (software)
In this second half of my initial blog post, I will detail the software involved in controlling the texting typewriter. Please also check out my student’s projects here.
The Texting Typewriter (hardware)
This is my first blog post documenting the present state of my texting typewriter –and my first blog post ever. In future posts I will document both past and present...
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Tile Letters
For a long time, I have been meaning to upgrade my small paper “Now Playing” sign used to indicate which album is on the record player. Having some experience cutting...
Album Letters
I purchased this box of letters along with a small chalk board at our local Goodwill store.
Engineering Shop Overview
This post is a long overdue description of the Engineering and Robotics program at Medford Vocational Technical High School (MVTHS). I was asked to write up a description of our...
Panasonic T36 PCB
I am designed a printed circuit board for the Panasonic typewriter. At first I wanted to simplify the circuit because I thought that maybe much of the initial signal “cleaning”...
Paper Craft Repair (testing sealers)
In this post I am going to test the five sealers in order to determine which provides the most durable finish and secondly which is the easiest to apply. The...
Paper Craft Repair
About a decade ago, I made about a dozen or so paper craft cards. Mostly these were birthday cards for my family but a few were holiday cards. I made...
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Goodwill Glass Lights
A couple of years ago, I began gathering colored glass and small vases from Goodwill. When I had a good collection, I combined them with a couple of sets of...
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