AI Rover: Off the Leash
Freedom For the last week, my robot has been living its best life as a very expensive paperweight on a bench, plugged into a 12.6V power adapter like it’s on a …
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Meet Servo: Bringing Up a Salvage-Built Presence Robot
In the real world, I lead Automation, Transformation, and Data Analytics. To that end, my team and I have been building AI tools. We’ve just added LLM servers to …
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Folio Maniac: A Signature-Folding Tool for Hand Bookbinders (Beta)
Every bookbinding project starts with the same annoying arithmetic. How many sheets make a signature. How much padding to add so the page count actually folds …
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ObsidianWriter: The Novel Studio I Wanted
I have tried enough writing software to know what I do not want: another clever application that asks me to hand over my manuscript, adopt its filing system, and …
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Building a Welcome Sign With a Hanging Plant Holder
I get into trouble all the time. Someone shows me a picture of something and I respond with, “I could make that.” So when I was shown a welcome sign with a hanging …
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Building a Faerie Door From Scrap Wood
This started with a scrap of plywood, a chunk of 2×4, and the perfectly reasonable urge to install a tiny blue door in a brick wall. The door is carved into the …
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I Built a Logic Puzzle for Thorncroft Mysteries
The first Thorncroft Mysteries novel, Terror in Stone, is written. I’m now working through the self-publishing process, which turns out to contain rather more …
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Lord of The Rings Leather Journal
I made my Daughter a Lord of The Rings journal with tea stained paper (ph balanced) The entire cover was laser cut and engraved. Leather was hand dyed. I’ll be …
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DIY Pumpkin Stem to Wargaming Tree Stump
The Build In this article, well look at the process of taking a common (yet seasonal) object and turning it into a piece of DIY wargaming terrain. Doing this made me …
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Bookbinding: Signature Estimator
Download Signature Estimator v2 Excel File (.xlsx) Estimate Signature Size for DIY Bookbinding I decided to make a book. Not write one, make one. I wanted to start …
Read the lab notesDesigning Terrain from Desktop to Tabletop part 2
Originally published on TerrainMonster on July 11, 2012 by Highland Piper. So you have made your 3D model and now your looking to make it a reality. Unless you have …
Read the lab notesDesigning Terrain from Desktop to Tabletop part 1
Originally published on TerrainMonster on June 18, 2012 by Highland Piper. Lately I’ve been making my terrain with Google Sketchup which is a 3D software that allows …
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