Building Stuff, Makin' Friends

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Baby gate adapter

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The problem: attach a baby gate to a round, tapered post. Products for sale are a mix of not quite right for my application and slightly exp...
Friday, January 17, 2025

Radioactive Cat - A radiation levels data collection project

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Last year we noticed our cat was losing weight. She seemed interested in food but when it was in front of her she’d barely touch it. When pe...
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

ChatGPT 4o mini makes a fork in OpenSCAD, with my minimal assistance

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While distracted by Zoom meetings, I give ChatGPT 4o mini some feedback to make a fork model in OpenSCAD. Because I uploaded images, I can...
Friday, December 16, 2022

Wire loop game (2018 project that I forgot to post)

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the wire loop game (there was a video here; I'll try to put it back later. It got lost when I tried to fix the formatting. Blogger seems...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

The Polyhedra Project (video summary)

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I finally got some time to edit old footage...and build a garden...and breathe, think, reflect. Here is a video summarizing my parametric 3...
Sunday, December 15, 2019

Endless time sink projects!

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It has been a difficult but exhilarating semester. We made a makerspace! Here it is all packed up because we needed to move it to anoth...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Balloon Battle

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I wanted to run a team-building activity this summer in the makerspace, and settled on the format of a robot Balloon Battle. After the ac...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

Nonholonomic Driving Robots Revisited: RRTs

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Back in 2017, before a major geographical move and career change, I was working on a project where I built and wrote an A* based path plan...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Rhombic Enneacontahedron Post #2

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Alright, here's the code. It is a total mess, but I knew I just wasn't going to get around to even starting to clean it up, so I jus...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Rhombic Enneacontahedron

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Over a year ago I decided the next 3d printed magnetic tile based polyhedron I would create would be the rhombic enneacontahedron . In ...
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