Monochron Clock Kit
22 January 2012, 11:44 pmSome of my christmas money went towards purchasing a Monochron Clock kit from Adafruit.com. It turned out to be an awesome build and I had lots of fun putting it together. I also chose it because it allows you to program your own clock “faces” for it. I’ve programmed a Space themed face for it [...]..... More
Kindle Hacking
9 January 2012, 5:45 pmShortly after I purchased my Kindle Keyboard, I decided to jailbreak it and apply the screensaver hack. Now I can have an infinite variety of interesting screensavers. I also have access to quite a few interesting hacks for the device. Where I got the jailbreak files from: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kindle_Screen_Saver_Hack_for_all_2.x_and_3.x_Kindles A list of hacks available for the [...]..... More
Emergency Gingerbread Cookie Cutter
31 December 2011, 6:22 pmMy sister decided to make Gingerbread cookies for Christmas. This would have been great except that after she made the dough, we discovered a complete lack of any cookie cutters in the house and all the stores were closed as it was Christmas day. So rather than give up, I made her a cookie cutter [...]..... More
Tornado Chamber
30 November 2011, 6:00 amThis is a Tornado Chamber I built for one of our Science Saturday workshops. Air enters the box through the two slits in the side and exits through the hole in the top. The positioning of the slits sets up a clockwise vortex inside the box (the rotation of the air in the box should [...]..... More
Dorian Gray Halloween Costume
11 November 2011, 11:52 pmFor this past Halloween, I was Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Choosing the character: I have known the basic premise of Dorian Gray for years and it has always been rather fascinating to me. Sometime in June, I ran across the 2009 movie adaption of the novel. I’ve always liked [...]..... More
Computer Fan Hovercraft
30 July 2011, 8:00 pmAir pressure. We experience it every day. For those of us living around sea level, we must endure 14.9 pounds pushing down on every square inch of our bodies. Of course, since the air is also pushing in every other direction, we don’t feel it at all. Due to the fact that we experience air [...]..... More
