Category Archives: Personal Projects

55g servo drawing.

For anyone that needs the drawing for a 55g servo, here we go. It’s been some time since I’ve updated but never fear, more boring stuff is to be posted soon heres is a link to the actual PDF if … Continue reading

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A crummy little servo tester and other minutia

The little servo tester Well, I needed a way to test all of these servos I got from EBay and I decided to spend a little time making a quick and dirty little board for doing that. It uses a … Continue reading

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Stormer Viscometer Grams to Oz-Inch Conversion

Trying to make sense of the standard stormer viscometer and methods that could be used to calibrate a device, I’ve been looking at the original stormer viscometer in order to get an idea of what ‘grams’ actually means in the … Continue reading

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Quick post, a couple of drawings.

The chill is in the air, October is here. I’ve been pretty busy with the viscometer and some other things, however I drew a couple of objects just for future reference. I figured somebody might need the dimensions of either … Continue reading

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Time’s a passin’ – DIY Arms, Music, and invention

Well, the past few weeks have been eventful and interesting. I’ve been busy and school is almost over. I’ve had a few things on the go and I’ve come up with some interesting ideas and implementations. Sorry for the lack … Continue reading

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Still goin’ at ‘er, now attending the self employment program

Well, no new project pictures or anything. Summer is almost here and I’m pretty happy about that. I’m going to start at a training course for 8 weeks starting May 11. The program itself is funded through the Canadian Government … Continue reading

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A Drawing of a Servo, for reference.

Well, my servos have all come in for a project I’ve been working on. These ones being some cheap Chinese servos that I picked up off Ebay. Here’s a photo of one of them. Now that I have them I … Continue reading

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Sky-Tracker, so far, so good.

For the last few days I’ve been working on the electrical portion of an astrophotography mount for my camera. The mechanical portions were built by my father and I’m handling the electronic portion of the device. Basically, for those who … Continue reading

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Bored, playing with DooM maps.

Many years ago I used to make maps for Doom. There is still a community going strong for making maps and now with modern source ports and editors, sometimes I dabble in making a new maps. Anyways, here are some … Continue reading

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Wrote a little game… Astrosmasher

Well, out of boredom I’ve created a little game called Astrosmasher. Nothing special really, I just wanted to see if I could make a game look like an old Atari game. I think I succeeded in some ways Astrosmasher is … Continue reading

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Temperature and light, several days

Well, It’s been a number of days since I built the unit and all’s been tested. Here is a picture of some of the data from my living room over the past several days. The purplish is the temperature and … Continue reading

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Temperature and ambient light tracking

So, since I’m really bored I decided to build a device that tracks ambient temperature and light levels. While this may not seem very interesting, I suspect the relationship between the two, while not directly linked, will be interesting especially … Continue reading

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Playing around, drawing a valve.

I was a little bored today so I decided to draw a valve. While the dimensions are entirely drawn from my head and the valve itself wouldn’t be very efficient, I like the look of gas compressor valves. It took … Continue reading

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Kinda been in a creative funk…

For the last while I’ve been in a bit of a creative funk. Troubles at work and the the weather have made it difficult to concentrate on the things that I like. Anyways, perhaps while I have some time off … Continue reading

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The LED Clock

Well, for the past little while, I’ve been working on a bizarre clock made with LEDs glued into a dollar-store cookie sheet. I got the idea just out of the blue and decided that it would be fun to build. … Continue reading

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The lamp I’ve been saying I was going to build

Well, I’ve built it, the useless yet fun, timer lamp. The idea behind the timer lamp is to have a bedside lamp that you can turn on and of but also set it to turn off after a certain amount … Continue reading

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Project Report

Following is a report of my progress regarding the viscometer. Having spent several months on this project and having gone through four mechanical iterations and umpteen electronic iterations of design, it’d be a good idea to go through and describe … Continue reading

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A quick and dirty project.

Being bored and needing a reasonably safe source of 120VAC I decided to build a little box with some terminals. Just something simple.   It may not be the safest thing in the world but it beats the shit out … Continue reading

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