I remembered seeing a clock app in the Petzold book, and I needed to make a spinning “I’m working…” indicator. It’s a fairly good book, although I’ve only read a small bit of it. So I looked back in it and found the clock app. It’s a nice…
Continue readingIn my last post, I ranted about the SmartScreen filter. Since then, I discovered that SS is one word with word capitals. I also discovered that it took about one day for my app to download without the SS filter warning from Windows 8.1. Apparently, my new certificate…
Continue readingMicrosoft does some really nice work sometimes. The half-assed Smart Screen filter is not one of those nice pieces of work. It is shit. I’ve posted about this before, but there have been no changes to this filter over the last few years and it still has some…
Continue readingI lost some old emails from people who wanted to use the Linkage program on Windows XP. This post is my only way of letting anyone know that I recently built the program for XP. I have not yet tested it. I don’t have a Windows XP system…
Continue readingTo be honest, I am actually stumped. I just don’t know what to write about. Rolling Ball Sculpture I have most of a metal tree built to support the track of the new RBS. But something about it just doesn’t seem right. The tree itself is cool looking,…
Continue readingI just discovered that I don’t have a still image of the finished ball lifter. I captured one from the YouTube video. This RBS ball lifter lifts steel balls or marbles to the start point of the rolling ball track. The track is still being built and isn’t…
Continue readingThe internet has a lot of data about the NVG510 modem/router. Most of it consists of complaints. I will add to that list of complaints by adding one: The router will not let me use all five of my static IP addresses for five different computers. But first,…
Continue readinghttp://kugelbahn.blog.de/2014/01/29/erlesener-liftmechanismus-kugeln-david-rector-17653059/ I am proud to have been mentioned on the kugelbahn blog. It’s one of only two or three blogs that I read. The blogger is prolific and I can count on seeing something new almost every day. Now I need to get off my butt and work…
Continue readingWhile designing the lift mechanism for the new rolling ball sculpture, I found myself using a paint program and a lot of manual work to get printed plans with a 1:1 scale factor. In other words, I wanted printouts that were the actual size of the mechanism. This…
Continue readingBeginning of the Tree I’m trying my hand at making a metal Bonsai tree as the main support for the rolling ball sculpture track. This is going to be tricky because I need to get most of the tree finished before I start placing the track. But there…
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