Over Christmas, I made it a big time goal to make a PCB in Kicad and get the thing completely finished. Additionally, I pondered the nature of man and the existence of God. The two […]
God Detector PCB
Author: brandondrury
Valentine’s Day Glowing Pulsing Heart
I had gigantic plans of finishing up my LED Cube before Valentine’s Day. I worked on day and night over Christmas break, but it just wasn’t happening. I was on pace and then made an […]
Coffee Tub Bike Wind Protection
If there is zero wind, when riding a bike 20 miles per hour, a person feels the cold plus the wind. I believe this is called “wind chill”. The faster you ride your bike to […]
Satanic Light Fixture
Ever seen that made-for-TV movie from 1988 where a lamp is haunted? No? You are missing out. It scared the urine out of me when I was a young lad. ….still does. I’m not sure how […]
16 LED Christmas Tree With Shift Registers And Motion Detection
I’m lucky that Christmas has such a wide array of acceptable aesthetics. There are two things in life that I can cut out with a jigsaw and the ol’ lady still dig it and I […]
$50 Kitchen Table (Rustic)
My mom wants to buy a $3,000 “rustic” kitchen table. I interrupted her to tell her that my crappy table cost me $50. It’s made in pine. Why? More rustic! This is some soft wood. […]
Monster Detector
The kid is 4 years old. He’s certain there are monsters under the bed. What do you do? You grab a two peanut cans, some bulk USB cable, a PIR motion sensor, 5 green LEDs, […]
Squirrel Feeder
Building a squirrel feeder is easy. Just build a bird feeder and hang it up on your back porch. It is now a squirrel feeder. I’ve been tempted to electrocute the squirrels to death. This […]
Tennis Ball Gun
Date: May 2017 I had big plans of putting a lidar detector in this thing to allow for fully-automated kinematics. Real life stinks. Someday I will go back and make this tennis ball cannon automatically […]
Battleship In Python 2.7
December 2016 Python 2.7 – vPython Graphics Library While all the knuckleheads learning C++ were just getting around to for loops, our Python class had final projects of making a “video game”. Video game should […]