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Fifth year <<<<<<<
Sixth year
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Eighth year
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Tenth year
I have a list of my Press STUFF.
At the start of the fifth year, I was basically living in Reno while away at 100% travel while simultaneously writing for Hackaday. The approach to projects was to work on them and publish them as a series only interrupted by weekly updates and podcasts.
The first project completed in the fifth year was a whimsical approach to a paper airplane. It relied on a laser cutter to make an airplane profile and paper for the wings. Holes for the airfoils were airfoil-shaped, and the edges of the model acted as a ruler for measuring paper.
Laser cutting was also used in the second project of the year. This one was musical in nature but maybe not execution. The TineBox was a way to make a tuned musical instrument with minimal effort and a laser cutter. All the tuned elements were part of the cutting file, so they were precisely cut.
As a fun weekend project, I made a dice box. It was intended to be a fancier-than-necessary way to carry my dice, but it needed a twist to make it stand out. A dice rolling tower was integrated to give it some extra functionality. I was pleased with how it turned out even if the edges stuck a bit.
The ModuKey project turned out a totally usable keyboard which I use daily at work. It was intended to keep improving and will hopefully see a future revision, but V1.0 was as far as it got.
A simple hack under pressure. At work, a former employee left without revealing the code for a locking drawer, and it fell to me to open it. Rather than try one thousand combinations, I implemented a way to beat these weak locks in a few minutes and nine-hundred-ninety-nine fewer tries than the worst-case scenario.
If you have ever had to put something on the end of a bolt that was too small, there is a chance that wrapping a bit of wire around it may mate the two.
LEGO building blocks were a big part of my childhood, and the same can be said of many people, older and younger than me. Using them as puppets could be an easy way to make a low-budget video with minimal equipment, but lighting cannot be overstated.
Team Magnet Fish Spectacular, I came up with that name, was a hackathon team who took on the task of recreating the beloved plastic game where fish travel in a little disc and kids try to catch them with plastic fishing rods. This version was built to the scale of a kiddy pool with life-size fishing rods.
At my yearly family reunion, I like to bring my science-savvy second-cousin a tidbit from my project work. At the time, I was working on keyboards, which are not particularly exciting by themselves, but keyswitches and lights are fun, so I carefully placed a battery holder, and RGB LED onto a breakout board so that three switches could control the colors of a light.
IKEA furniture is excellent and assembling it yourself shows you how it fits together in a way you may not understand otherwise. I wanted to take a floor lamp with a bulky base and turn it into a light above my bed, and I did that with a custom bracket.
Star Trek: The Next Generation influenced me as a kid and getting hot tea on command is definitely in my future. For now, I will settle with water heated for my tea. This is not a complicated or ingenuitive project, but it was fun.
Teleprompters are slick pieces of equipment for professionals, but anyone can build one with a few materials. This was my second, and I improved on the design by making it larger and collapsible for easy transport and storage. Both pictures below were taken simultaneously, from inside or facing the teleprompter.
While at BDYHAX, I got a new implant since an implanter had some on-hand. At the time of the implant, the VivoKey Spark was in a closed-beta and notoriously hard to find.
Each of my ModuKey builds has been unique. I started naming them, and this one was called Lazy Brown Dog. It is large and mounted on chunky brown wood platforms. That was no coincidence.
First year
Second year
Third year
Fourth year
Fifth year <<<<<<<
Sixth year
Seventh year
Eighth year
Ninth year
Tenth year
I have a list of my Press STUFF.
The first project completed in the fifth year was a whimsical approach to a paper airplane. It relied on a laser cutter to make an airplane profile and paper for the wings. Holes for the airfoils were airfoil-shaped, and the edges of the model acted as a ruler for measuring paper.
Laser cutting was also used in the second project of the year. This one was musical in nature but maybe not execution. The TineBox was a way to make a tuned musical instrument with minimal effort and a laser cutter. All the tuned elements were part of the cutting file, so they were precisely cut.
As a fun weekend project, I made a dice box. It was intended to be a fancier-than-necessary way to carry my dice, but it needed a twist to make it stand out. A dice rolling tower was integrated to give it some extra functionality. I was pleased with how it turned out even if the edges stuck a bit.
The ModuKey project turned out a totally usable keyboard which I use daily at work. It was intended to keep improving and will hopefully see a future revision, but V1.0 was as far as it got.
A simple hack under pressure. At work, a former employee left without revealing the code for a locking drawer, and it fell to me to open it. Rather than try one thousand combinations, I implemented a way to beat these weak locks in a few minutes and nine-hundred-ninety-nine fewer tries than the worst-case scenario.
If you have ever had to put something on the end of a bolt that was too small, there is a chance that wrapping a bit of wire around it may mate the two.
LEGO building blocks were a big part of my childhood, and the same can be said of many people, older and younger than me. Using them as puppets could be an easy way to make a low-budget video with minimal equipment, but lighting cannot be overstated.
Team Magnet Fish Spectacular, I came up with that name, was a hackathon team who took on the task of recreating the beloved plastic game where fish travel in a little disc and kids try to catch them with plastic fishing rods. This version was built to the scale of a kiddy pool with life-size fishing rods.
At my yearly family reunion, I like to bring my science-savvy second-cousin a tidbit from my project work. At the time, I was working on keyboards, which are not particularly exciting by themselves, but keyswitches and lights are fun, so I carefully placed a battery holder, and RGB LED onto a breakout board so that three switches could control the colors of a light.
IKEA furniture is excellent and assembling it yourself shows you how it fits together in a way you may not understand otherwise. I wanted to take a floor lamp with a bulky base and turn it into a light above my bed, and I did that with a custom bracket.
Star Trek: The Next Generation influenced me as a kid and getting hot tea on command is definitely in my future. For now, I will settle with water heated for my tea. This is not a complicated or ingenuitive project, but it was fun.
Teleprompters are slick pieces of equipment for professionals, but anyone can build one with a few materials. This was my second, and I improved on the design by making it larger and collapsible for easy transport and storage. Both pictures below were taken simultaneously, from inside or facing the teleprompter.
While at BDYHAX, I got a new implant since an implanter had some on-hand. At the time of the implant, the VivoKey Spark was in a closed-beta and notoriously hard to find.
Each of my ModuKey builds has been unique. I started naming them, and this one was called Lazy Brown Dog. It is large and mounted on chunky brown wood platforms. That was no coincidence.
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