slinky

My little Craftsman lawnmower didn't start this spring.   It has a Kohler Courage PH-XT675-2044 engine. Yes, I left gasoline in the mo...

Greetings once again readers, it's been a while.. Tonight I want to talk about the Roland RC-50 Loopstation .  It is a really nice, y...

Posted the core of this to FixYa and thought I'd add more detail and post it here as well, in case someone searching can benefit from th...

Firstly, a thank-you to Brian, who commented on my last post.  I had a very detailed reply, but commenting on Blogspot seems to be borked fo...

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE IN A BOTTLE - YAY!: You know, I give Walmart shit as much as the next guy, but they have something I haven't seen any...

Plywood Warpage: When I started the coop project, I went with plywood - partly because I had a scrap piece that fit perfectly.  I had built...

A major milestone in the chicken-coop door project...  Installation!!! It's in! And, some video of the first official evening cl...

 One of the last remaining hurdles of the chicken coop door projects is reliable off-grid power.  12v is the norm, but the motor is 6v.  Wa...

I was getting down about the sheer number of idiots in the world the other day, and was thinking about getting one of those shirts that say ...

Just got a decent looking Black Knight pinball machine off craigslist. When I got it, it was blowing the solenoid fuse. Flexing the 40-pin...

Yay, the mechanical is about 95% put together - at least the basic controls. Next is to add the webserver. Here is a vid showing the basic ...

Ahh, after a hardware run for some sleeves, nuts, and bolts, followed by some bandsaw work and time on the drill press, I've got a worki...

(I'm about to head out and post a laminated version of this on the Stop Sign) To the cyclist whom I was on a collision-course with today...

In the image below, you can see the door slides, the door, and the two swinging latch blocks. The latch blocks are only laying in place rig...

Most of the code is written and stable enough to continue on with permanently connecting the drill UI and ESC to the Seeeduino. The speed ...

Not much time to write at the moment, put the pictures should tell most of it... Wifi enabled arduino clone "BlackWidow 1.0", comb...

First thing, credit where credit is due: Dhananjay Gadre for the original idea. I had to do my own - using EagleCAD of course. Here is...

Ok, this is going to be a short post, only because so much is already googleable about the laser toner etch resist method... This post assu...

Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle are what we hear a lot, but more important than all of those is REPAIR. Seeing perfectly good equipment hobbled...

Those of you who know me probably know I've been working on a long-board that uses an Atmel microcontroller and a hall-sensor to monitor...

Well, someone else claimed "slinky" back in 2001 and hasn't done anything with it... So, slinkyX it is. Sure would be nice if ...