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  • From a project in progress

    Toynbee Codes! The scorch marks on the linoleum are from LASER BEAMS. More details on Flickr.

  • Router Cozy, completed

    Here’s the completed three-inch badge for the Coworkout Wireless Router Cozy.

  • Third Coworkout: N.C. Wyeth’s Man Cave Cathedral

    The third Coworkout yesterday was awesome; we were at the Brandywine River Museum, and got to visit N.C. Wyeth’s AMAZING studio, filled with lots of Two-Fisted Teddy Roosevelt Man Stuff (there’s a rack by the door filled with matchlocks and an actual TOMMY GUN, and an enormous chest filled with the pirate costumes used in…

  • Embroidering p8tch QRCodes at the Lancaster Quilt Show

    I’ve always wanted to have actually-embroidered QRCodes on my p8tches, but commercial embroiderers laugh me off the phone once they learn that each unit has a UNIQUE code. The overhead involved in setting up a design for embroidery is not trivial, and it takes time to stitch each design (commercial embroiderers use fifty-head machines, making…

  • Dear Hephaestus: Can You Have a Look at my Carbs?

    Riding home from Philly Emerging Tech yesterday (where I got to hear the CTO of the Obama campaign talk about their system, and where nerd hero Andy Hunt mentioned Nerd Merit Badges in his keynote, yay!), my sidecar rig started stumbling on acceleration. Dirty carbs? Water in the float bowls? Angry ghosts following me from…

  • Meet the mustachioed, Danish father of room temperature.

    This smilling, Danish scholar is professor Ole Fanger, whose 1970 book “Thermal Comfort” is the rock on which the whole edifice of modern HVAC is built: Over on the coworkout blog, you can read more about: The “Predicted Percentage of People Dissatisfied” (PPD) index, The fct ratio, which takes into account the percentage of skin…

  • You’re sitting in a CHAIR. IN THE SKY.

    Harold Ross sent this to me, and I couldn’t possibly agree more: http://images.multiply.com/multiply/multv.swf

  • Lego Minifig Motorcycle Helmet finished

    I finished my Lego Minifig motorcycle helmet visor skin, and I think it looks pretty great, even if I do say so myself! It’s made of perforated vinyl, printed by Dave at Barking Dog Signs. If you’d like to see some more pictures, check out the photoset on Flickr.

  • Under the Longwood Gardens Open-Air Theater: SECRET UNDERGROUND DISCO CARWASH

    On the incredibly balmy Sunday last weekend, Kate, Barb, Lydia and I drove down to Longwood Gardens. Lydia wanted to visit the topiary garden (which is where I really, really want to show Edward Scissorhands at the Guerilla Drive-In.) I took a picture using the Pano panorama-maker app for the iPhone. There’s a bigger version…

  • The Brandywine Valley Association’s Polar Plunge

    Brandywine Valley Association is an awesome local organization dedicated to preserving the sixty-mile Brandywine Creek. They have three hundred acres locally, which is full of hiking trails, awesome paths, and interesting things in the woods. The Guerilla Drive-In showed both Local Hero and Lair of the White Worm there. Last Saturday, the BVA held their…