I don’t know if it counts as cool, but I’m definitely proud! I had a large round footrest-type piece of furniture that was made of cheap leather, which was just completely disintegrating. After months of covering it with a blanket, I finally made a little crochet cover for it!

I made these coasters a few years ago – coasters with coins glued to the top and sealed in epoxy. It was surprisingly easy and they’re still holding up. (Gift idea: coins have years on them.)

I help run a small computer museum. Among other things, I do all the photography. Last year I published a book of black & white abstract images of the insides of machines in our collection - details you don’t normally see.

Museum

Book

I’d like to believe my music is the coolest thing I’ve made. Progressive rock with lots of orchestration and some industrial flavor. My most recent EP.

Made these record album stands. Wanted something where someone could stand there and flip through them instead of having them slotted in sideways where people have to pull them out to look at them. There’s a other one on the other side.

I built an e-bike. I had the bike sitting around, bought a kit and went from there. Pretty satisfied with it after having 1500~ miles. It has a good top speed and was a lot cheaper than buying a premade one. I’m surprised at how well the motor and battery have held up, considering I bought nearly the cheapest one I could. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised by the quality of cheap Chinese goods.

1. I made a “cave” under the basement stairs. I completely closed in the normal opening that people make into a closet. Then I cut a hole in the drywall that goes under the stairs. Finally, I installed a whole-wall cabinet, except that ONE of the doors actually opens to the hole, Narnia-style. Kids love it. And me…

2. in office, used more cabinets to make computer station for my and wife’s PC. Single piece counter all the way. l installed PC towers in 12" cabinets. Ventilation you say? I cut holes in the wall, install 140mm noctuas, and tie then to PC. So when PC turns on, whole cabinet exhausts to basement stairwell behind wall.

Went on a kind of a tear and built a handful of keyboards. I built all i wanted and don’t have plane for more for myself at the moment.

I made on of them little life simulator programs with natural selection and genes and such. I love watching my little dudes evolve.

Currently I am rewriting it to be much faster through multi-threading, gpu graphics, and more! My dudes are gonna be so fast.

I posted this last week in a different community but I built this 3D-printed digital counter that tallies the bird chirps heard in my backyard. It’s powered by a Wemos D1 Mini microcontroller.

I signed up for this super techy sounding thing called buildspace with my rather non-tech idea of writing a book. I didn’t expect to mesh well with the crowd, but once I got in I decided to not be so jaded and try to enjoy the ride.

I’ve been writing for a while now and have tried to publish a few novels. Receiving nothing but rejections and somewhat hiding all the work I’ve put in to crafting my stories.

Having a rallying force of other people excited to not just create things, but also release them publicly was refreshing! Even if most of the ideas were some word salad of tech buzzwords, the energy was motivating.

So I wrote a book called Besnowed and published it on Amazon during the 6 week program! I call it a nostalgic novel and wanted to capture the feeling of coming home to celebrate a holiday.

Here’s a snazzy website that gives a brief overview: The warmth of winter in a book.

Or you can find it on Amazon!