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Friday, June 28, 2024

Milling PCBs in the Classroom, Updated Workflow

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I'm continuing to teach high schoolers to design their own circuit layouts and mill the boards so they can solder them together and have...
Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Make Gears With Turtle Art

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  You can code gears with Turtle Art! If you have a fabrication machine such as a 3D printer, laser cutter, or CNC machine you can download ...
Friday, June 30, 2023

Mycelium Bluetooth Speaker

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  Someone gave me the electronics to a bluetooth speaker so I figured I had to make a mycelium case for it.
Saturday, February 11, 2023

Backyard Inspiration

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We have a small—18' x 19'—backyard that was shaded by a large maple until a year and a half ago when it had to come down due to a fu...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

Making a Plastic Press

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In another post I showed how to use a tortilla press to compress melted HDPE plastic in flat disks to use for making things. I made a bit m...
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Thursday, November 24, 2022

Melt HDPE Plastic For Projects

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I wrote about this a couple years back and I have significantly refined this process so I figured I would provide an update. I still find m...
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Sunday, December 20, 2020

Arduino Controlled 5V Relay for Christmas Tree Lights

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Our christmas tree lights plug into the wall behind the tree and are always hard to reach without sprinkling needles on the floor when we wa...
Friday, July 31, 2020

Hacked an Answering Machine

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I found this old answering machine and originally thought it was a good find for just harvesting the 7-segment display. But as it sat around...
Monday, July 27, 2020

Generative Art with TurtleArt

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I made a series of drawings with the LogoTurtle a while back and I am revisiting the same idea of "exploded shapes" using Turtle ...
Sunday, July 26, 2020

Starter Circuits and Blocks Code on Tinkercad

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Blink one LED Blink 2 LEDs Turn on an LED with a button Use a potentiometer to dim an LED . Control a servo motor
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