DIY Kitchen Cart This post is a quick description of a recent DIY project I did. One of my first projects of 2021 was building a storage cart for my kitchen. Here's a picture of it: Finished cart (except for stain/varnish).The top surface has space
DIY Greenland Paddle In this post, I wanted to share a project I did this year: building a kayak paddle. The paddle I built is more-or-less in the Greenland style. I adapted the instructions/dimensions from here. Here is a summary of the steps I followed: Starting
Science @ Home (Rocket)ship in a bottle It's hard to believe we're already a month into 2020. This post looks back at something I built as a Christmas gift for some kids. Bottle rockets are a fun toy. Unlike most rockets, they don't rely on combustion. This makes them safer to
DIY Concrete-Top Side Table For this post, I wanted to share a recent piece of furniture I built. It is a small side table with a concrete top and an oak stand. Overall, the table is 22" high and the top is 10" x 10"
DIY Elementary Cellular Automata in a Hydraulic Computer Despite the same word appearing in both titles, this post is quite different from the previous one. The inspiration for making the project described in this post came partly from re-reading Anathem last year. A couple of books on complexity I read last year
DIY Oak & Ash As I mentioned in my previous post, I've been pretty busy this fall. I took a longer hiatus from blogging than I had planned, but now I'm back at it. Earlier this year I moved to a new house and that has provided the
DIY DIY Telescope, Part 2 There's a project I was working on and have written about before that I put on the back burner for a while but got back into this weekend. Here are the results. When I came up with the idea to try building a telescope,
DIY DIY CO2(aq) This post is about a DIY project I just did to get carbonated water at home, without getting a Sodastream. I mostly followed the project description from this article, with a few small changes. Mainly, I got my CO2 cylinder from a home brewing
DIY OBD2 This post is about an alternative to taking your car into the repair shop when the check engine light comes on. Six years ago, I bought an on-board diagnostic (OBD) interface tool (you'll find them for sale on Ebay, Amazon, etc. if you search
DIY DIY Air Filter This post is about one of the DIY projects hinted at in my previous post: an indoor air quality filter. Activated carbon can adsorb volatile compounds (such as odours)—see the discussion here. I wanted to rig up a means of blowing air past
3D Printing My Latest 3D Printing A week ago, I was having fun on Prince Edward Island so I didn't have time to blog. For this week, I thought I'd post about 3D printing since it's been awhile since I've done so. In a recent post I mentioned that I
DIY CD Stand This post was 8 years in the making, in a way. It is a woodworking project I started in 2008*, but didn't finish before I left for my master's studies. I found the pieces that I had cut and drilled and stained, and decided
Science @ Home DIY Telescope Project This post is about a project I have planned for the next several months (or longer), to try to build my own telescope. I'll try to write a follow-up post to share how it turns out. My goal is not to build a high-quality
3D Printing 3D-Printed Cactus Pot This post is about one of my recent 3D-printing projects. Cactus I like having plants in my apartment, but anything that requires frequent attention would have a difficult time surviving under my care. I thought cactus would be a nice fit, due to their
3D Printing Economics of 3D Printing This is a discussion on the economics of 3D-printing based on printing the bookend from my last post. As shown below, this part (including auto-generated scaffolding) was approximately 100 grams. The print time was approximately 4.5 hours (plus time to set-up the printer,