Cardboard Starship #4: Transport part 1
If you look back at the "cardboard starship" tag, you'll see there have been a couple of previous builds... and #3 was never updated. That's because I never finished it. I was unhappy with the foam…
Why Glazing Putty Fails Early (And How to Make It Last 30 Years)
Ten years. That’s how long the glazing putty held on my first set of windows before it started cracking, pulling away, and letting water in around the glass. I had done everything right on…
Father’s day project
Getting a little more organized in my workshop. My pain point was boxes of nails or screws falling off shelves. And, of course, I wanted an excuse to use the laser cutter. I took a lesson from…
Tea with Lena: A Rainbow High Doll House Renovation
Lena and Ian's house is finally done! Or it's done enough...for now. These projects have a way of stretching on and on, because there's always some cool new accessory or decoration that…
The Long Hot Summer of Spool Bus: That Time My Brake Lines Caught On Fire
So there I was one fine (a.k.a last) summer collecting some parts for the MOST RECENT PROJECT CATCH (never before seen on this site! Yet!) with Spool Bus, having been recently been re-HVAC’d…
Beveling the keel
Before I can think about fitting the garboard planks, I need to bevel the keel so the planks fit at just the right angle. To prepare for this, I watched an Off Center Harbor video ($) from Geoff…
DIY Smart home project: Restoring the wall switch
Background In a previous post, I wrote about building a presence sensor to automatically turn my bedroom lights on and off (smart bulbs connected to ...
I made my games into CD-ROMs.
I made my games into CD-ROMs.
Painted Zipp
I finished applying all the layers of paint, sparkles, and clearcoat to the Zipp 2001 frame a couple months ago, and finally worked up the motivation to sand and polish the clearcoat. I did 2 coats…
#003 - A First Release
Listen on Spotify or watch on YouTubeToday marks a small but important milestone for Cybernetks.I’ve released my first product.It’s not a game. It’s not an app.…
New Iron for the Veritas Plow Plane
I've recently been working on my old woodie plow plane and it got me thinking about the Veritas plow. When I bought it, I got a 1/4" and a 3/8" iron with it. But it seems most of the grooves I make…
New Model Mandolin: 5
In this episode, I design and make a new jig for routing the neck joint. Then: fit the neck, the fretboard’s supporting wedge, and the fretboard itself. Quite a lot there to take in! I skim over the…
3D Printed Server Rack
I 3D printed a 10" server rack.
Blue trucks
It's a small detail of course, but in my memory of the Pillsbury hoppers , if the truck side frames weren't blue as on the real ones I saw back in the '70s , then, well, it just wasn't right. After a…
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