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 […]

LED lighting prototype

Let there be light… more light!

April 20, 2018

A friend and I are working on another LED lighting project.

Garage Computer

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!

USB peripheral

Hungry for Ham?

September 30, 2016

I just built first units of a prototype custom USB peripheral for an amateur radio enthusiast (ham)…

That’s A Lotta Scope!

March 22, 2015

“New” Hewlett-Packard 500MHz DSO added to tool arsenal

Finished "space buggy"

Space Buggies

January 5, 2015

Three custom “space buggy” rail cars refined and built in short order

Coffee Roaster Prototype

December 6, 2014

Coffee roaster prototype enhances friend’s homebrewing facility.

Hy-rail Boom Truck

December 6, 2014

Custom hyrail crane truck enhances safety and convenience on a shoestring budget.

Polo Timer Prototype

Polo Timer Prototype

December 6, 2014

Custom polo timer designed, prototyped, and programmed to enhance the match

15 ton Crane Modernization

December 14, 2007

Crane modernization brings locomotive shop into the 21st century.