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Merry Christmas!

For Christmas this year I built a new thing!  Here’s the necklace wall mount I built: The design uses six pieces of pine glued together into a tiered structure.  Then I extracted the wall mounting hardware from some Ikea parts to … Continue reading

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New bike!

One of my friends told me once, “the best way to deal with from having your bike stolen is to buy a more expensive bike!” Although this strategy might encourage runaway bike theft, I just got a replacement bike for … Continue reading

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No more bike :(

Oh no, my bike is gone!  All that was left was the cut lock this morning. Oh the memories…. Why didn’t they take the crappy blue road bike instead (also?).   UPDATE: Well at least I learned a lot about … Continue reading

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Happy Halloween!

Here are some sweet jack-o-lanterns from the Halloween party this year! Guess which one is mine!  The dinosaur?  Good guess, I should have made that one.  I tried to make the world instead…

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Building a cajon

I’m always looking for a good deal so assembling my own cajon from a kit was the way to go.  I found the Sela Bausatz cajon with a bass sound I liked and a snare construction that was solid.  After following the instructions from kit and drilling a few holes -> TADA!
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DIY Climbing board

I just built a sweet climbing board for my pullup bar.  Take a look:

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DataGridViewPrime

C# WinForms offers a suite of fully-featured controls for building responsive, event-driven user interfaces. However, there is limited native support for data visualization and the existing tools show poor performance when plotting >100K data points.

My solution to this problem is DataGridViewPrime, a class extension of DataGridView that includes functions to Save, Copy and Explore the data source bound to the control. The features are accessed though a new context menu created for the control.

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Abella, enclosed

Although Abella used to live in a shoebox, now the electronic musical instrument has been fully soldered and packaged in a project box.  The prototype is complete!

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Household thermal imaging

I am now the proud owner of a Seek Thermal infrared camera!  Let’s play a game: it’s called “guess the subject of this photo”!

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Computer upgrade

Merry Christmas to me! It’s time for a motherboard upgrade. Here are the components I selected:

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