Not A Project
Photo by Rachel Kotkoskie, CC-BY Around 1995, I bought a Meteor pinball machine. It was released in 1979 off the success of the movie Meteor, starring Sean Connery and Natalie Wood. Oh wait. The movie was, in fact, a complete flop. Anyway, I had played this machine in the 80′s, and was feeling nostalgic. [...]
I haven’t written in quite a while, almost a year! So, some updates: I completed my Latin studies. I am currently attempting to read Erasmus’s 1528 work De recta Latini Graecique sermonis pronuntiatione (On the correct pronunciation of Latin and Greek speech). That acrylic cage thing I built for the Logical Engine? Not practical. I’m working [...]
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3D printed Difference Engine parts. Given the difficulty Doron Swade’s team had in getting the thing to work back in 1991, I have to wonder.
I made these steampunk thumb drives out of Kingston 4GB DataTraveler thumb drives. They’re for sale at USD 25.00 each on etsy.com. The money goes towards buildling the Logical Engine! I only made five, but if they go quickly, I can make more. Go take a look!
A few months ago I took a trip to see my good friend Dan Reetz in Los Angeles. He took me to Norton Sales in North Hollywood, a surplus store specializing in space program castoffs, and which has an enormous warehouse of same. We spent a happy hour clambering through the mostly unidentifiable technical detritus [...]
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”The possibility of constructing a piece of mechanism capable of performing certain operations on numbers is by no means new ; it was thought of by Pascal and geometers, and more recently it has been reduced to practice by M. Thomas, of Colmar, in France, and by the Messrs. Schülz, of Sweden; but never before or [...]
This was my test project to practice using NextFab’s Trotech laser engraver/cutter. It is 1/4″ black acrylic into which I engraved a four-level image of one of my cats. The engraving process I think is much more suited to just bilevel images, but this worked pretty well! Meow!
So I know I haven’t posted in quite a while. This is a record, being almost four weeks. The truth is that I haven’t been doing much of anything. Well, I did clean my house for a visit with relatives, and I built a second version of a book scanner: The platen is attached to [...]
I made a video about my Dachshund Fritz, who is annoyed, in a fake German accent, at certain items which could be in his dog food. Don’t be put off by the title, it’s safe for everyone, and there’s a cat at the end. Please take a look at it, and leave a comment, whether [...]
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