I recently rebuilt the lighting in my office because the crappy 12-volt strung lighting from Ikea that the previous owner installed was insufficient for working comfortably in my Man Cave™. Here’s the NEW lighting above the sound-proffed barn door window shade things:
It’s no secret that if you read at least two articles on this blog you know that I know just slightly more than diddly-poo about electronics. That’s OK, though! I’m learning and it’s WAY fun! It’s like making cool stuff with Legos™ but with the caveat that you could electrocute yourself or start a fire. […]
For those of you with short attention spans, like me, here is a quick and lame video I threw together in iMovie: I am building this for the new awesome bed I will be building this winter for our bedroom. There will be two of these lamps, one for me and one for my wife […]
UPDATE: Want a PCB and components for your own project? I’ve had a deluge of requests for the PCBs for this project. If you’re interested, please contact me through this blog. I’m trying to figure out whether it’s worth it to sell the boards alone or maybe as a kit with the LEDs and resistors (or […]
OK, I am not making one of these and I did not make this one, but I consider this to be super-swanky and a must-show-off piece in my collection of strange old things. I inherited this from my grandmother who passed away around Christmas of 2009. It’s plastic, but my grandparents purchased it for-real in […]
Until I find a home for my little snippets of code, here is where they will go. While building an iOS (iPhone) application, I needed a quick little method in Objective-c that would take strings of color codes from data provided by web developer peeps and convert those string values into UIColor objects. For instance, sometimes […]
I’m building a bright LED reading light that will be powered by a “9V” wall wart power supply and will use a flexible stem to position the light to not disturb my wife while I read and she sleeps.
I finally finished my own UME Mark II for my own desk for me! Woohoo! My flavor of useless machines ever has a “presidential” look, as some have put it.
See how I made my office desk, which is situated near a very warm window, much cooler and comfortable.
I had the very excellent opportunity to take the Office Chairiot™ into an empty office suite in our building this afternoon. It was not the adrenaline rush that I used to get skydiving, but it definitely ranked up there. Danger factor was high, since the office chair has almost zero controllability. I might as well […]