Archive for the 'Misc' Category

A promising design.

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017

I was joking when I said “This design is totally just going to work.” But, as it turns out, it just works. No, really! Aside from minor physical layout tweaks it looks and sounds great. You can’t really step on it until it’s in a box, can you?

That’s a lot of mouse feet

Thursday, May 25th, 2017

So I wore out yet another set of mouse feet. Scrape scrape. Didn’t immediately find a set of matching feet for my mouse, and then I thought, “wait, surely there’s a general solution to this.” The solution? 36 yards of PTFE tape. That’s PTFE, also known asĀ “stop saying Teflon, or we’ll sue you.” In this […]

I made a thing to reset my modem.

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2017

CenturyLink can’t seem to stay online without frequent manual resets, so I made a thing out of other things that I got from the internet. Writing the code, soldering on some pins, and wiring up an intercept to the relay took about 3 hours, maybe 4 if you count the time I took sharing the […]