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Multi-turret water cannon

I’ve been holding off on posting about this until I got some time to finish it up, but now seems like a good time since it was mentioned in a community blog post. I didn’t capture a proper video of … Continue reading

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Christmas gifts: Candles

One of the things I made for Christmas gifts this year were candles. In addition to the typical cylinder and square candles, I made some candles in the form of the Gears omen and a lime. For my first time … Continue reading

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CNC machined Scrabble board

A neat little Scrabble board that I made and took on my vacation trip: A word to the wise: orange and red Sharpies are nearly indistinguishable from each other on a frosted plexiglass medium.

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Robotender Mk3

Finished Robotender Mk3 just in time for my halloween party (with literally minutes to spare). This one is a pretty radical departure from the previous designs, using a robotic arm instead of pressurized dispensing. I managed to pick up a … Continue reading

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Infected Omen Light Box

I pulled an all-nighter and designed/fabricated a LED edge lighting box plus etched plate in advance of the Gears 3 launch. The original plan was to slide an unused junk android tablet in and show some numbers from the stats … Continue reading

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Nya nya nya nyan

A friend of mine recently got a house in Raleigh and dubbed it “The Happy House”. As a housewarming gift and as a test of my new CNC, I wanted to carve a plaque for the place. I tried to … Continue reading

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Glitchovision 3000

This is an audiovisual instrument that I created for the 555 timer contest. The Glitchovision 3000 is a 4 step sequencer controlling an ‘Atari Punk‘ synth with a greyscale NTSC video visualization of the output audio, built using two 558 … Continue reading

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Persistence of vision display using only 555 timers

I created this display for the 555 timer contest, a compact art piece that cries out in appreciation of the venerable 555 timer. It’s a persistence of vision display formed by 7 blue leds and 3 NE555 timers, which spells … Continue reading

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Stylized level

Playing around a little bit with a stylized rendering idea for a 2D platformer that popped into my head (looks better in motion).

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Aether converter cell

I was thinking of doing something Steampunk themed for Halloween, and thought I might spend a few hours prototyping a ‘raygun’ prop.  This aether cell as far as I got, it would serve as the ‘ammo cartridge’ for the raygun, … Continue reading

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