Stuff Andy Instagrams

I thought it’d be kinda cool to just feed in my photos from Instagram locally here on the site for a nice gallery-kinda thing, er, something. Yes. Enjoy!

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View fullsize Tiny watering can for indoor plants printed in PETG. Just the right size for watering little plants in little pots. And, it’s a fun, translucent green… Because plants. #plant #diy #houseplants #3dprinting #fusion360 #cad #homemade #stuff
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View fullsize Designed and 3D printed a set of 8 jigsaw puzzle piece sorting trays shaped like jigsaw puzzle pieces for @woot4penguins. She picked the color scheme. The trays (loosely) fit together, as well. They’re printed in PETG plastic, so she could also
View fullsize Using LIDAR, the Desk Adjust-O-Tron 2000 makes a not-automatic IKEA adjustable desk automatic! A @sparkfun Arduino-esque microcontroller “presses” the hacked button pads on the IKEA control panel using little relays. The Adjust-O-Tron rem
View fullsize Weird thing happened in our wild kingdom backyard Tuesday evening. A cottontail had a little baby bun-bun right off our back patio. Just when we thought we’d seen all the animal things in our yard… 🤪🐇 . . . #stuffandysees #backyardwild
View fullsize Making my IKEA sit/stand desk smart. Distance sensor under desktop tells a @sparkfun Qwiic Pro Micro Arduino the height of the desk. The Arduino can memorize two favorite heights for sitting and standing. Hacked the desk controller that came the moto
View fullsize We found this little guy enjoying the morning on one of our rocking chairs. I believe that’s a nighthawk. We see three of them buzzing around our back yard in the evenings. . . . #bird #birdphotography #stuffandyphotographs #backyardwildlife
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View fullsize Homemade stevia chocolate turned out pretty OK. To make these more production-like, I need to learn how to mix the ingredients better (pulverize the whole milk powder a little more) and how to temper the chocolate. These are also more melt-y than sto
View fullsize Experimenting with homemade sugar-free chocolate bars. Using stevia in place of sugar. I think I nailed it on the fourth test batch. 🍫 🤷🏻‍♂️ . . . #chocolate #homemade #diy #zerosugar #nopreservatives #simplerecipes #stuffandyattempts #stuffan
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View fullsize Upgraded the power in the camper: Surge suppression from @autoformers and automatic transfer switch (ATS) from @gopowersolar. Now the system is protected and switches automatically between the inverter and shore power. Works great. No more worrying a
View fullsize Took the woodpecker about 150 milliseconds to skeedaddle, from the instant he hears the click of the solenoid and the first hit of water to completely out-of-frame of the camera. Impressive. He was wrong-side-up twice in that sequence. Quite agile, f
View fullsize BWAHAHAHA!!! Stupid sugar water thief. Meet the Woodpecker Squirt-O-Matic, you little jerk! Proof-of-concept works great. WiFi controlled outlet controls AC-powered solenoid water valve. Camera alerts us when something hits the feeder. We use Siri or
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View fullsize But, I like BIG buttes and I cannot lie.
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View fullsize Finally back to sticking stone bits to the BBQ island. Front and sides are now complete. The back, the largest in area for stone, sadly is not even close to finished. Baby stone steps. Also peeled the protective and very sticky plastic off of the sta