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1999 Honda Civic Doorlock Actuator Teardown
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VBAS Lighting Upgrade – Draft Installation
On Sunday my dad and I returned to the planetarium armed with a new emergency exit light to install over the main entrance. During the outage on Friday the old exit sign had displayed approximately 0.42 seconds of battery illumination before going dark. As a bonus this new sign included flood lights, which should help […]
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VBAS Lighting Upgrade – Prep Work
What a wonderful start to 2022! I got to spend the new year’s weekend working with my parents to get a full-scale demo of the LEDs installed up at VBAS.
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Prosthetic fan blades
I got home to find my storage server’s fans running full tilt. After deciding that this wasn’t a VM hogging the processor, I figured it was probably time to refresh the thermal paste anyway and removed the heatsinks to clean out any dust. Under the second CPU riser board there’s a small, flat fan and […]
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Rocket City Trombone Christmas – 2021
This year my dad played in the Trombone Christmas concert!
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VBAS Lighting Upgrade – Demo 1
For years I’ve day dreamed of installing programmable lighting in the VBAS planetarium dome. It’s finally happening.
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Unbricking the HP Envy 17 Laptop
My dad is a thrifty man. For a decade he’s used the PC I assembled from scavenged components in highschool. But last year he finally made the leap to a modern workstation and bought an HP Envy 17-inch laptop. After a few months the new laptop developed a fickle touchpad and dad was told by […]
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An open place
This time of year the sun sets right before 5pm, and there’s a moment while commuting home where I can look west through a field to catch the last rays fading from view. I find myself back in Harvest, driving the long way around jams of traffic leaving the city, preferring the small county roads […]
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The half-life of contribution
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First impressions with the Elegoo Mars 2 Pro
A while back I ordered a Mars 2 Pro MSLA 3D printer (with bundled Mercury Plus wash & cure station) to test the waters of resin printing. This past weekend I spent about 12 hours working with the printer to make Christmas tree ornaments for family / friends, and I’d like to share my experience.