Scuttlebutt

2024-08-10 21:40 by Ian

Scuttlebutt is a RasPi4 setup that I built for my home's common area. It functions as a bulletin board and media PC.

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Smol Things

2024-08-03 05:36 by Ian

Sometimes, you just need to solder smol things. Here is some of my best work with a microscope and a soldering iron.

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2022.11.11: Lux Turpis ("Light Mixer")

2022-11-11 21:44 by Ian

Lux Turpis ("Light Mixer") is an ISM radio relay and NTP appliance.

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The Woose Tracker

2019-08-08 10:59 by Ian

This project is a wearable child's toy for team games. I have two children that are young enough to start drawing treasure maps and playing sophisticated games of hide-and-seek. And they both watch cartoons that have characters with wearable computers. So I embarked on a quick project to build something that was meant to be used for fun.

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Digitabulum: Digit update

2016-12-14 01:48 by Ian

First articles of the flex parts arrived today. This is a panel as it arrives at the assembly house. This one was shipped to me as a representative sample that I can use for testing some EE parameters.

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Metalcraft (PC Case)

2011-03-05 07:55 by Ian

For the past eight years, I’ve been limping along on my 2Gz P4a. I finally built myself a new PC, and quickly found that as the hardware has become better, the cases have gone one of two ways: Either cheap 1/16” steel rattletraps that cost $40, or Xbox hueg l33t towers full of lights and windows.
No thank you. I’ll roll my own.

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My first custom MediaServer

2004-08-14 00:04 by Ian

This was the first serious media server I built. I built it into a home-made acrylic case.

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The hammer tester

2002-09-23 23:56 by Ian

My first experience working as an independent contract engineer was for my dad at age 19.

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