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 […]
Satanic Light Fixture
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 […]
Low Power LED Heart Blinker for Valentine’s Day
Here’s the situation, boys. There aren’t many win-win situations when it comes to relationships so when you see one you need to take note. Chicks love it when you make them crap (from the heart) […]
Get Dressed Motivator (Max’s Stopwatch)
Dumb Intro This was my first experiment with mind control using an Arduino. My 4-year-old inherited his dad’s ability to become completely sluggish and relentlessly useless when he doesn’t give a crap about the task […]
The Unfinished Bomb
Sorry kids, it’s not real. Technically, my rocket shooter is the closest thing to a real bomb as it induces actual combustion. This is contraption I scraped together as I wanted to pull a fun […]