Category: Projects
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Mallet Building
Last weekend I built a woodworking mallet out of oak. I needed a mallet to help with assembling and banging on things without as much damage as a plain metal hammer would leave, so I built my own. Building a mallet is often used as a basic woodworking introductory project since it’s not very hard…
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Finishing Tree Cookies
Finished Decorative Wood Piece For this project, I had some tree cookies from what might have been a Mesquite tree. I wanted to smooth them over and use one for a cake stand and maybe make a clock from another. I had 5 pieces originally in case some didn’t turn out, and one was used…
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Gold Picture Frames
Last weekend I worked on building some picture frames from scratch. They didn’t turn out the way I hoped, but I will probably still use them. Gold Frames I wanted to make some custom sized frames to hold some photos and mats for the welcome table at our wedding, one will frame an 8×8 square…
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Spark for ESP8266 Wifi Display
Last year I created a simple ESP8266 based Wifi display using a Wemos D1 Mini and a 4×20 character LCD – Video 1 – Video 2. I used a php script for the backend because I wanted it show the time without having to add an RTC, and I didn’t want to format messages on the board. The php script will generate…
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Docker Jekyll Builder
I created a new project on Githib docker-jekyll-builder-git for a Docker containerized Jekyll project builder that I can run on a Heroku free Dyno. I put it together for use as part of a publishing pipeline instead of relying on the Github builder. This way I can use whatever plugins I want and can scp the built _site to my existing webhost. This…