I’ve been keeping busy on a variety of projects this past week, but none of them are really “finished” yet.  The Autotar (player guitar) is functional and plays a song (Twinkle, Twinkle), but needs some software tweaking to make it sound more like music… Most problematically, the stepper motor that drives the slide is pretty [...]

People I meet via the Omaha Maker Group often ask me what it is that I make.  I try to avoid the “Everything” answer, popularized by Jason Uher, but it seems to be sort of the truth.  Due to a renewed  interest [by people who aren't me] in things that I’m making, I’m trying to do [...]

The Eye-Fi Wireless SD Card is probably one of the more complex storage devices I’ve seen lately . The basic 4gb model packs a wireless network card into a Class 6 SDHC unit.  The result is wireless photo transfer to a local PC and then onward to one or more web-based sharing services of your [...]

I’ve been in to painting miniatures (minis, figurines, figs, etc) for some time, and have a handful of minis that I use for D&D.  Recently, Richard was lamenting his boring gray pieces for his Last Night on Earth game.  I volunteered to paint them in batches for him.  The process I use is pretty straight forward: Base [...]