Big Thing Follows Me Home… Again
January 5, 2023
For some reason, large pieces of machinery just love to follow me home. In December 2022, it was a 9000 pound late-model VMC (vertical machining center) from a defense contractor’s large machine shop. The bearings failed in its spindle motor and they swapped some control parts with another machine. Sometimes I wonder what regular people […]
Let there be light… more light!
April 20, 2018
A friend and I are working on another LED lighting project.
Garage computers
April 6, 2018
I’ve been tinkering with a product idea for the garage for a while, mainly because I want one of them myself!
Neighbor Needs Plasma!
January 19, 2017
My neighbor called me… can you come into the shop and look at some machines?
ARM Wrestling?
January 5, 2017
Networking code for the NXP/Freescale K64 processor is coming along pretty well…
Hungry for Ham?
September 30, 2016
I just built first units of a prototype custom USB peripheral for an amateur radio enthusiast (ham)…
Serious PoE
January 17, 2016
I finished prototype PC boards for a PoE (Power Over Ethernet) converter and companion microprocessor board for a client…
Cincinnati Heavy Iron
October 2, 2015
Interesting troubleshooting and repairs to old Cincinnati Milacron CNC machines…
Little Time for a Timer
July 20, 2015
Breadboards and firmware for a timer controller assembled in just days for a client in California