Servo Opens Its Eyes: Pi 5, AI Camera
Where things stood Last time , Servo went battery-powered and untethered with a browser joystick I programmed to drive it. It could move, but it had no sense of its …
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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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Software I use or recommend https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/ Affinity Designer is an award-winning vector graphics software setting the new industry …
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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 …
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