Hacking and Nonsense
I would be lying if I said I wasn’t devastated by the closure of the Galactic Starcruiser in Disney World. The Galactic Starcruiser was a fantastic piece of immersive theater, and the fact that a company as wealthy as Disney couldn’t pull it off financially is hard to swallow. A lot of it is Disney’s… Continue reading A Eulogy for the Galactic Starcruiser
Ever since moving out of New York City and away from NYC Resistor I have dreamed of once again having access to a laser cutter. A decade later it’s finally a reality! I got a Trotec Speedy 300, 80w. It’s a huge beast compared to the Epilog Mini 35W we bought in 2008. I spent… Continue reading Fire the Laser: My Trotec Speedy 300 laser cutter
Get some fun mail! You can order a postcard of art generated from the Algorithm That’s Of the Moment. Your art will be unique, no two postcards will be the same. Artwork will come from both myself and other artists who have open sourced their projects. The back of each postcard will list the author… Continue reading Generative Art Postcards
We decided to move the Amazon spybot Echo out of the living room and I needed to come up with a new way for the kids to play music, since they can no longer run around yelling “Alexa, play Katie Perry!” 200 times per day. I combined a Raspberry Pi with an RFID reader to… Continue reading Yet Another Raspberry Pi Jukebox
The past three years we have attended PAX Unplugged and the general pattern goes like this: Play a bunch of games at PAX Buy a bunch of games at PAX Put those games away Go back to mostly playing Galaxy Truckers and Sagrada This came to a head this past Chrismas when I went to… Continue reading Tabletop Game Organization
For Christmas I got myself a crafting robot. It’s a Silhouette Cameo, which is basically an ink jet printer with a knife where the ink ought to be. It’s a pretty neat bit of crafty hardware! Like all good parents I started thinking about valentines for my kid’s class approximately 12 hours before her class… Continue reading Making school valentines on my crafty robot
My plan to knit through the Walt Disney World Half Marathon was abruptly canceled by the Florida weather, which saw fit to bring thunderstorms on Saturday morning. Left with a whole lot of yarn and a week of vacation I decided to knit while waiting around Disney World instead. If there is one thing Disney… Continue reading The Disney Waiting Scarf
Guys I have a secret… I have another blog. One dedicated specifically to knitting. I started it last year meaning for it to be a site for aggregating knitting news and information, but didn’t have the time to put into it. The idea was that it would be sort of like a long-form Pinterest board… Continue reading Rhinebeck and other Knitting Things
It’s been a year since our “kitchenwarming” down the shore, and it’s finally starting to feel like a functional place to cook and not just a showroom. It took a while to stock it; to collect all the spices we use regularly, to amass odds and ends like cupcake liners and cutting boards. We’ve gotten… Continue reading My DIY Ikea Kitchen 1 Year Later
Our 100 year old house came with wall to wall carpeting everywhere except the kitchen and bathroom. Actually there’s evidence there was once carpet in the kitchen too. I ripped out all the carpet and found all sorts of things, like this very old outlet that had just been carpeted over at some point. I… Continue reading How to Remove Old Carpet and Flooring Staples