With great pool comes great towel mess! This is a simple DIY project that uses inexpensive PVC pipe, a few screws and a shade umbrella stand to make a very practical towel tree for summertime poolside organization. I think it took me all of an hour, maybe two, to assemble and paint. Total cost, a hair over $50. If you don’t paint it, less than $50.

Saturday (March 22, 2014) I attended the 1st Annual Southwest Maker Fest in Mesa, AZ. It was very cool for a 1st annual version of a fest, I must say. I’ve officially been calling myself a, “maker” for about 5 years now and I had never been to a maker-anything to speak of. This was a lot of fun.

The very first thing I saw as I walked from the parking lot was one of the amazing Rally Fighters from Local Motors.

Yikes, that title was a mouthful, but I wanted to make sure the search robots gobbled it up with their mouths so that people in my situation would find this article. Short attention span version: I can’t seem to get Mac OS X Lion to connect to my FreeNAS iSCSI drives. Lemme essplain what I […]

A car stereo, some extra car stereo speakers, some hardwood, and a ATX power supply for a computer and SHAZAM! You get a garage stereo that can play your iPod, XM radio, CDs, and AM/FM radio. This project was easy and only a little tedious to make. It was fun and it sounds awesome. Plus, the little speakers I had in my garage cabinet are not the greatest, but they’re not bad. With a 500 or 600 watt power supply, I can beef it up someday if I get the energy.