Well, I missed one. My goal is to post at least once a week, shooting for midweek but usually later than that. I missed my personal deadline though, which is no later than midnight on Friday. Earlier, I was shooting for two posts per week, but life is far too hectic. So, I’m posting on…
Designing stuff is hard.
I’m really good at following directions. Give me a recipe, or building plans, or even just a good hard look at something along with it’s dimensions and I can probably build it (within my skill set, naturally). But designing something from scratch is hard. Going from a rough sketch to actual measurements and assembly methods…
This is where the self doubt comes in
Inspired by a youtuber’s analog on-the-go note-taking desk, I decided to try my hand at improving the concept. I sketched it, mocked it up for an idea of size, and then I said: you have a 3D printer, why not print the parts you need? Which I thought was a grand idea. Being neither an…
No hot glue? No, hot glue!
I had an idea for a 3D printing project. Of course, being an old-school kind of guy, almost any idea starts out as a sketch (maybe digital, maybe not), but prototypes are probably not going to be digital. Regardless of the medium, a proof of concept can be mocked-up with card stock or cardboard. Now,…
May the 4th
I wasn’t feeling well this week, so this will be very brief. I’m not really one to get all excited about phony holidays that are probably really just promotions for commercial endeavors, but this weekend is May the 4th, a.k.a. “Star Wars Day” and something jogged a very, very old memory. I was very young…
From the archives
I like to thumb through old notepads and scraps that I’ve saved with doodles and drawings. Sometimes, when a drawing hits in a certain way, I copy it into my drawing app (Krita) and recreate it digitally. I don’t have a process to save or recall these doodles, but I find it meditative to thumb…
Entrance to another realm
Sometimes I let my flights of fancy take off — even if just for a moment — and can imagine that this hole in the wall goes somewhere else. Somewhere that’s not here. This day I remembered that I have a camera in my pocket at all times. The local lore is that this road…
Creativity vs. pragmatism
I almost missed my weekly post. This week I got busy and had less reflection time, so this is very off-the-cuff. I’m not really a traditional “car guy.” My dad was mechanically inclined and while he was good at fixing and maintaining his cars, he never really fetishized a brand or model the way some…
Compartmentalization
Visual blog post today. Inspired by a dream.
Down the rabbit hole
Everything went out the window when the SD card arrived. You see, I have a Raspberry Pi server that, among other things, serves up my “personal cloud.” Unfortunately, the SD card that it boots from failed and I had no replacement. I had to steal the one in my 3D printer. Server up and running,…