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Author Archives: danreetz
EDC
I’ve been wearing this watch for 6 years now, and I’ve been carrying this knife for 3. I think they wear well.
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Oscar Wilde
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”
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Welcome Mat
Pepper Spray, Box Cutter, Claw Hammer, Bolt Cutter, Fire Extinguisher.
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Galvanometers
From Consolidated Electrodynamics Corporation, Pasadena, California. Rob and I picked these up at Norton Sales.
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Every year, I Draw A Skull On My Face With Eyeliner Pencil
This year, I got to draw on someone else, too. 2012: 2010: 2009: 2008: 2007: 2006:
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Color Constancy
I’m setting up a workstation for some new electro-optical projects. There’s no question in my mind that inspiring workspaces make better work. Most of my workspaces have been haphazard and unorganized, primarily because they were set up in a damned … Continue reading
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Making a case for this…
I’ve been sewing since I was a little kid. I learned on this machine, the Bernina 1130. My mom gave it to me when I moved away from the Dakotas. She gave me a lot of nice tools, including pretty … Continue reading
DIY Book Scanner Kits Now Available
Last October, in NYC, I announced a new DIY Book Scanner kit (the “Hackerspace Scanner”). Today, after dozens of revisions, hundreds of hours of work, and thousands of great ideas from the community, the first eight kits are ready for … Continue reading
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On Projects
Projects don’t exist until you’ve bled on them. It’s spiritually akin to breaking a bottle of booze on the bow of a ship.
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From The Archives: Night Lights.
I’ve lived a lot of places. Each had something, special. 12 1/2 North Roberts Street, Fargo, ND 58102 – that place had such night lights. Shadow projectors. I loved nodding off to those sodium sources. You can see the bike … Continue reading
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From The Archives: Containers.
And what they hold: Somewhere near Napoleon, ND, sometime in 2008.
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Joy is Sorrow, Unmasked
An unusually literary approach for an official at her level. Listen for the units of measurement, descriptions of scale and speed, references to YouTube, and modern web-language like “hacktivists”. Oh, and mudge.
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Home Switches for CNCRouterParts.com CRP4896
I’m outfitting my CNCRouterParts.com CRP4896 CNC router with home switches. The idea is to set up sensors such that the router can start from the same place every time, automatically. I’m using these sensors. They are compact, encapsulated Hall Effect … Continue reading
From The Archives: 737, The Corporation
I am a self-taught 3D modeler, and used to develop game models professionally. Perhaps the greatest skill of a game modeler at that time was to make a low-polygon model with sensible geometry. The lower the poly and texture count, … Continue reading
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