Tag: woodworking

There are zillions of nixie clocks on the web, so I’ll just discuss the atypical features and problems I encountered.

I built a triple-sensor mailbox alert to tell me when there is mail in my mailbox for me.

I barbeque exclusively with charcoal. I used to have a Weber kettle grill, but we wanted something bigger and got a Blue Rhino Uniflame grill. It’s nice, but when you’re done grilling and close all the vents, it doesn’t smother the coals. There are just too many holes and gaps in the shell.

My mother is selling my childhood home. I knew the one souvenir I wanted to keep. The only problem was, it could kill me.

Captain Kirk once told Mr. Spock that he should be squatting on a mushroom. If it’s good enough for Spock, it’s good enough for mighty Dungeons and Dragons warriors. So my daughter and I used fungus to make these shelves for her D&D figurines.

I wanted to design a clock from scratch. I ended up with a expensive, over-engineered, multiprocessing monstrosity. But it was fun.

Here’s how I built a birdhouse with a webcam inside.