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Game Show Buzzer System V2
The name “Game Show Buzzer System V2” is a misnomer but I’m gonna go with it… See, I’ve built more than one “Game Show Buzzer” type of system since the original post but they were not documented here...
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I Made Peanut Butter
We normally buy peanut butter because I use it for making granola bars, smoothies, and baked goods. I rarely just spread peanut butter on something and eat it. As I’ve been trying to be more and more...
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WMSE Art & Music – Fight the Power
I posted about the Sydney Hih piece I made for the WMSE Art & Music event, but I made a second piece as well this time! I used the boom box that the character Radio Raheem carries around in the...
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Scrappy Hour Group Bike Ride
I started riding more often in 2024 and was riding anywhere from 3 to 6 days a week but always solo. My old pal Matt mentioned a group ride called Scrappy Hour and described it as a “casual slow roll”...
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macOS Web Launcher
Here’s a niche one… If you use the “Launchpad Key” on a keyboard while using macOS you know it’s a handy way to launch an application. I use it constantly. But if you want a similar experience for...
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Giant USB Button
Look, I’m just going to come out and say it… this Giant USB Button is probably too big! It’s 228.6mm x 228.6mm x 120mm (which is 9″x9″ x 4.725″). The thing is, when someone asks me to build something...
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Hardware Store Bike Rack
I forgot I never posted the follow up to my Hardware Store Bike Ride post! I ended up writing a letter to the store letting them know that I was unable to find a place to lock up my bike while...
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Bike Nite (on the Fediverse!)
There’s a bike community on Mastodon (and/or parts of the Fediverse that connect with Mastodon) and you can be a part of it. It happens every Friday 4pm Pacific time. I often forget about it when it...
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Another Flat…
So according to my previous post I last had a flat tire in October 2024 (and August 2024). For the one in August I took it into the LBS to get fixed, but in October I changed it myself because damn I...
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Sewing to Repair
I learned to hand sew and how to use a sewing machine in school. I think it was 7th grade in a Home Ec class. The term “Home Ec” is short for Home Economics. Here’s the Wikipedia definition: Home...
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Rose Ferreira and NASA
I saw a post about Rose Ferreira being deleted from the NASA web site because the article about her was a story about “Women in STEM” and with the current (oppressive) administration trying to erase...
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Solar FLAG Lights
When I first launched Gallery 69 (a Free Little Art Gallery) I had this plan to add a light inside and have it solar powered. That never happened, but Dana offered me a set of battery powered holiday...
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openmediavault NAS
I’ve been meaning to play around with setting up NAS (Network Attached Storage) device for a while now, and I’ve got a lot of old Raspberry Pi computers around so… I got openmediavault running on a...
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Be The Expert in 2025
It’s 2025, the world is in chaos, systems are failing, news organizations are struggling, and the people are suffering. There is so much bullshit out there, much of it from AI, but hey, I want to be...
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MintBook – A Mint Linux MacBook Pro
Last year someone gave me a mint (LOL) condition MacBook Pro. It was a 2010 model just like my old 2012 that I got in 2014 and again in 2019 and used until 2022 when I sold it to someone who needed an...
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Handcrafted Dacha Cutting Boards
About two years ago my friend Maks gave me a beautiful cutting board that he made. And then last year he asked me a bunch of questions about opening at Etsy shop to sell the cutting boards he was...
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High Capacity CPAP Water Tank
I ended up making a High Capacity CPAP Water Tank (Or an “Auxiliary Tank”) because the manufacturer doesn’t make one. This post will show what I’ve done and talk about how it works a bit. I use a CPAP...
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blogNag – A Blog Post Reminder
I recently released blogNag which is a Python script I run once per day via a cron job to notify me how long it has been (in days or hours) since I last wrote a post on this blog. This forces me to...
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Anytype – An Everything App?
I moved from Evernote to Bear for my synced notebook needs back in 2020. Bear’s great support for Markdown was one of the reasons. At the time I said of Bear “It’s not perfect” and no, it’s not… so I...
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An Automated Announcement System
An Automated Announcement System (or “AAAS”) is an idea for a system that can make scheduled announcements during an event when you are too busy to do it yourself. This is an idea I was working on...
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