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Duffle/Laundry bag… aka hobo bag.

A few years ago I was inspired by a navy laundry bag I saw in Men of Honor with Cuba Gooding Jr.  The bag was a standard drawstring laundry bag, but it sported a nifty circular bottom instead of the simple flat stitch which creates pointed corners.

I decided to give [...]

Old School Bluetooth Handset

Handset for an old rotary phoneI had a little fun and threw together something I always wanted to do.

Back in the day, we used these massive handsets with our land line telephones.  They had just the right amount of heft and a design that allows you to ‘shoulder’ the handset.  You can still find them in hotels and attached to payphones.

Today our cellphones are tiny, light, and too slim to shoulder.  So, with a nostalgic wisp I decided to pack a cell phone into the handset of an old rotary telephone.

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New Charge Station for the New Decade

I used the Charge Station I built for a while, but the appearance started to annoy me.  Why would I want to have a plastic tupperware box sitting out in my living room, especially when the duct tape was visible through the frosted top?  The box was too sloppy so I made another attempt [...]

Bricking an ATTiny2313 and getting LED’s to flicker with a 12MHz external clock

A while ago I was doing some mindless fiddling with project’s makefiles and happened upon some fuse code. I gave it a shot and immediately found it to have destroyed my ATTiny2313 chip; “bricked” it if you will. A few more attempts at trying restore the fuse bytes failed and even reading the signature [...]

DIY: Charge Station for your Electronic Devices

A while ago I saw an article on Lifehacker about building your own charge station to reduce clutter of adapter wires. The idea stuck in my head, because I often collect a nest of wires at the floor of my desk. These wires often find themselves becoming tangled around the wheels of my chair [...]