12
Jun
Garden Legos – Irregular Garden Borders
by The Idiot
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Gardening is awesome, and I've modified an excellent design for interconnecting concrete blocks to make long-lasting garden borders and raised beds.
18
Jan
A 12-Volt Timer – Building What Already Exists
by The Idiot
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With the rise in solar power, you'd think that small 12v components (like timers) would be ubiquitous. TL;DR: they're not. So I made one of...
04
Jan
Garden Power – Moving Water with Sunlight
by The Idiot
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Building a small outdoor-friendly solar generator to power garden pumps (and provide emergency battery charging).
19
Dec
Growing Up – A Tower for Strawberries
by The Idiot
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Combining two of my favorite hobbies - hydroponic gardening and being tall - with a third: not spending very much money.
06
Dec
MathTime2 – Math Practice for the Kids
by The Idiot
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MathTime2 is a simple, basic, free math practice application for elementary/primary school children.
13
Sep
Building NASA-JPL’s Pulse Necklace – Vibing Hard
by The Idiot
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Building the Pulse Necklace - NASA JPL's hand-detecting face-touch discouragement unit.
30
Aug
The Wooden Mallet – A Rite of Passage
by The Idiot
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A simple wooden mallet, the mainstay of any home workshop. There are many like it, but this one is mine!
23
Aug
The Kid-Sized Pump – Teaching Self-Sufficiency
by The Idiot
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Building a small manually-operated pump from PVC and my own check valves, so the kids can inflate their own balloons.
21
Aug
Cheap PVC Check Valves – A Tribute to the King
by The Idiot
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Ups and downs as I stumble my way blindly through one of my favorite Grant Thompson (TKOR) projects.
18
Aug
Sanitizer Bollard Part 5 – Gettin’ Fancy
by The Idiot
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Finishing up the bollards - rounding off the razor sharp edges, filing and sanding out the "adventure marks", and painting over my many mistakes.