Board Gaming

Games we own. These are all available for game night with the North Tahoe Tabletop Board Game Meetup group....

Art Projects

I have worked on various art projects over the years. This is a collection of some of those projects....

Programming Projects

I have worked on various personal and professional computer programming projects over the years. This is a collection of...
Sculpture and Art

Motor, Chain, And Crank Shaft

Motor, Chain, and Crank Shaft The video shows the motor turning the chain and the crank shaft. Some of the parts in the video are not quite finished but I really wanted to see if it all worked together ok. Actually, when I put it together like this,…

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Sculpture and Art

Crappy Jig for Crank Shaft

The Jig and Crank Parts I built the parts to the crank shaft and then drilled some holes in that long aluminum plate to hold the parts in place. I thought that the holes in the crank parts would hold the rest of the parts in place, but…

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Sculpture and Art

More Ball Lifter Parts

Back Plate with Motor Mount The back plate attaches to the back of the frame and holds the motor and one of the bearing tubes for the crank shaft. I call it a “bearing tube” because it’s a short tube brazed into the metal plate to hold a…

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Milling

My dad gave me his old million machine. It’s a Benchmaster mill and it works pretty dang well compared to using a hack saw and filing. Benchmaster (banana for scale) I’ve learned a lot about milling in the last few weeks, but nothing that would get written in…

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Sculpture and Art

A New Idler Link and Connecting Link

It occurred to me that a link that is used only to change the direction of link movement, like the one pictured below, is sort of an idler link. it’s like an idler pulley because it doesn’t do anything on it’s own. An idler pulley keeps tension in…

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Linkage Program, Sculpture and Art

Building More Parts

I have a new part built for the new Rolling Ball Sculpture. Small Ball Lifter The small lifter part is the lowest lifting arm on the mechanism. This part lifts the ball off the frame to a position where another arm can take the ball. The ball is…

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Computers & Programming

PriorityStackPanel

The PriorityStackPanel class is a Panel element that I built for my Windows Store app. The idea is that the panel should adapt the content to the display based on a set of rules. The existing panels in C# and WinRT are totally useless for this task because…

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Sculpture and Art

Rolling Ball Sculpture Lift #2

Manufacturing has begun on ball lifter #2. Design Animation of Lifter #2 The lower mechanism lifts the ball off the entry track to a position where link 3 at connector F can catch it. From there, it is lifted and dropped onto a short track about half way…

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Computers & Programming

CullingStackPanel

I have only used this horizontally. This panel will shrink down to zero size if needed, which might not be what you expect. The important parts of the code are commented. This is my first attempt at this particular feature and the code may be incomplete. I have…

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