A dear friend of mine, who has lived in this country for twenty years, has been detained by ICE for three weeks (and counting). Below is a letter that I sent to several elected officials to impress upon them just how important it is that he be released and allowed […]
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At long last, this year saw the return of Hackaday Supercon as a fully in-person event. My friend Voya designed the badge, and Sara and I wanted to add a microphone to supplement his wonderful design. She wanted to use the incredible four-bit computer Voya designed to calculate the FFT […]
Again it’s been a while since I’ve posted, and a lot has been going on: we traveled a bunch, lots of friends visited us, and the Queen died (but more about that in a different post).
This one isn’t done by any means yet, but I wanted to write a short update. I don’t trust any of my light meters, so I decided to make my own. It uses a VEML7700 light sensor, Adafruit Feather M0, and Sharp Memory-In-Pixel display to measure light levels, calculate exposures, […]
I was disappointed by the lack of an appropriate online venue on which to share my jewelry designs, so I made my own.
I’m cis male, so for obvious reasons I’ve never had an abortion, and I can’t foresee a reason I ever will. Like many members of my sex, I enjoyed the luxury of never really having to think about abortion while growing up. I never had to worry that I would […]
Alright, yeah it’s been a while… But hi there! We’ve been busy. Aside from the trip to Athens we took a while ago, I haven’t really written about anything we’ve done since December (whoops) so here’s a few of the things we’ve been up to. Buckle up for a ton […]
Back in October I foolishly decided to make a live map of the London Tube system. I ordered some inordinately large PCBs, a ton of Neopixel LEDs and failed miserably at soldering 585 of them to the map with hot air. When I was visiting my family in December, I […]
Well, it’s been a while. I haven’t really been keeping up with the blog (sorry to my one loyal reader!) but it’s about time I finally write another post. Sara and I were both back in the US visiting friends and family for Christmas, and got back to London in […]
I figure it’s about time I write a post about the Jewellers school I’ve been enrolled in for the past couple of months. I just finished my first semester at the K2 Academy of Contemporary Jewellery, with two semesters left in the year-long program. The theme of the term was […]
By mid-October we were seeing more Christmas decorations than Halloween decorations in London, so rather than stay put for what was shaping up to be a rather lackluster All Hallows Eve in the city, we headed north. On Friday morning we hopped on a train at King’s Cross and rode […]
Well it’s about time! I’m writing this post from my brand new desk in our brand new (to us) apartment. Okay, so the desk is just the cheapest surface I could buy from IKEA (it’s the LAGKAPTEN), but it supports my laptop so it gets the job done. The flat […]
We have a flat! Well, we’re in the process of signing a bunch of things that say we’ll have one in a few weeks so here’s hoping nothing goes wrong on that end… We only started the apartment search spreadsheet about halfway through the process and it’s currently 26 flats […]
Well the last few days have certainly been eventful- It turns out the area we were staying in, Brick Lane, has a lot of cool restaurants and a colorful nightlife. Unfortunately, that isn’t great news when the broken and taped window in our AirBnB didn’t do much to stop noise […]
Oof, this was a long day… or has it been two days? We’re honestly not too sure. The journey began yesterday with a limo ride (thanks for the surprise, Mom and Dad!) to JFK, where we arrived…. about four hours before the flight. We managed to kill some time in […]
Hi everyone Hi Mom and Dad (since I doubt anyone else will come across this). I’ve decided to try something new here and start a travel blog. By “start” I mean write this one post and see if I feel like continuing afterwards, and by “something new” I mean “new […]
Well, I suppose it was only a matter of time before I picked up this one. It ticks most of the boxes I seem to like in my hobbies: dangerous, expensive (though it doesn’t need to be), and fun. I can’t exactly explain it, but you get such a rush […]
This is a super-overkill rotary encoder. Not only does it encode in a rotary fashion, it also lights up! It includes a ring of 20 ultra bright and even more ultra tiny Neopixel LEDs.
The Z.VEX Fuzz Factory is an amazing little fuzz pedal designed by musical and electrical wizard Zachary Vex. I was introduced to it through Matt Bellamy‘s unique guitar style, and fell in love with its out-of-this-world sound. While I was tempted to buy a Z.VEX original for their […]
A three-axis rotary CNC built for the Mechanical Engineering senior design capstone course at Carnegie Mellon University by a team of engineering students. The CNC uses NEMA24 motors for each of the axes, with the X and Z axes actuated by lead screws, and the A (rotary) axis actuated by […]