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 […]
Look What Followed Me Home
August 11, 2020
In August 2020, some friends helped me salvage several large machines from a backyard shed. These machines probably shouldn’t have been put in a backyard shed! After a day securing the machines for transport and other preparation, my hauler showed up with their 53 foot Landoll trailer and announced they couldn’t get into the site. […]
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!
Shed Building Again?
September 15, 2017
With apologies to Elvis Costello, I’ve been “shed building again”, this time an 8×10 storage shed.
Not really a carpenter!
July 19, 2017
I’ve never considered myself much of a carpenter or woodworker, but I decided I’d ‘roll my own’ on this project.
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…
