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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...

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”...

Brother AX-350 (first circuit)

It types! Above you can see the correct sequence of characters for pin 13 from the key grid I made in the previous post. These characters were typed by using...

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...

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...