A few years back, I had this great idea that I was going to home-brew an electric two-wheeled vehicle from the ground up.  This turned out to be a somewhat ill-conceived project, but a great learning experience. As far as the finished product, I ended up with a not-terribly-rigid frame that wasn’t particularly straight, and [...]

With the march of progress toward smaller electronics, the “A-series” batteries of yesteryear are going by the wayside in many portable devices.   Everything from an LED flashlight to the bathroom scale seems to take coin cell batteries now.   The main downside to this is the higher cost of these specialized batteries.   A [...]

I’ve been using custom desks as far back as I can remember.  Over the years, I’ve used some desks built from the ground up, and others hacked together out of parts of store-bought desks.  This article will discuss my most recent (and currently active) creation, the “MkV Corner Desk”. This desk was created out of [...]

This post is a bit uncharacteristic for my site, certainly since the refresh, but I think it’s needed, as it contains information that I couldn’t find online. A while back, I’d returned a gift to Staples and gotten a store credit in the form of a Staples giftcard.  I didn’t immediately need anything so I [...]

A few months back, I’d purchased a Wii component cable from Monoprice.  I’d priced the offerings from the usual suspects (Niko, MadCatz, etc), but I felt that $20+ was a bit overpriced.  The Monoprice cable cost around $4. Over the weekend, I was disconnecting the Wii to take with us to Lincoln, and noticed that the connector [...]

I read a story on CNN recently about a couple in Pennsylvania that bought an older home, only to discover that it had, at one point, been used as a methamphetamine production facility (“Meth House”).  They’re now faced with huge cleanup bills, and no one else to take responsability, since a typical home inspection doesn’t [...]