My Life as a Tinkerer

Over the winter holidays, Simone Giertz made holiday cards using a KUKA robot arm (Or maybe a KUKA robot arm made holiday cards using…

Here’s a secret that I shouldn’t reveal as an electrical engineer: Of the eight or so PCBs that I’ve laid out, I’ve only manually routed…

I have a custom-designed home automation system that controls the lights in my bedroom, but there was one pain point — I couldn’t control…

It’s been over five years since I’ve designed my Homemade Variable Power Supply. I’ve used it a lot since then, but even in the original…

This project started on a rainy day when my partner notified me of a shelf that was sitting on the curb waiting to be thrown away. I…

This isn’t the first time I’ve made a complicated project just to turn on the lights in a closet. Sure, I could’ve used a strip of LEDs, a…

I thought the hardware for my Pi Lamp project was pretty simple. The software for this project was the most challenging aspect. I learned a…

My Spark Lamp project has been constantly evolving since its creation. It started off by reading two buttons and the room’s light switch…

I love Medium. Their vision for a blogging platform is very close to my ideal choice. I’ve been hosting my blog on Blogger, but have wanted…

macOS has a nice feature where it can automatically unzip “safe” files after downloading. I was looking for a way to do the same thing on…

As I’ve posted on my blog before, I use a Spark Core to control the lights in my bedroom. In my first blog post, I described the original…

My whiskey collection was starting to outgrow the space that was allocated for it in the kitchen so I was brainstorming a new place to put…