These Are Some of My Favorite Things…
I think there is a song something like that. I pretty much grew up on the Dewalt ecosystem, using the NiCad batteries. And like everyone else’s experience, the batteries finally gave out. The Lithium batteries are so much better. When Art and I were constructing model railroads, I started to move to the Makita system…
Pantry Shelves
We just finished installing three verticle pantry drawers, very nice units from Rev’a’shelf.
Arduino MOSFETs
If you have an urge to get into working with Arduinos, here is a place to start. This channel has some good projects for not only Arduinos, but also Raspberry Pis of all sorts, and ESP-32s. He also covers electronics, robotics, IoT, motors, and displays. He takes it one step at a time. Easy to…
GigaTexas Cyber Rodeo
Last night, Telsa had its grand opening party in Austin, TX. Wow! And what a party! The use of drones for the nighttime light display was amazing. You can flip through this video to watch that part if nothing else. Elon is not the best public speaker but he did have a few nuggets of…
Couldn’t Resist…
According to today’s plan, I shuffled off to WoodCrafters this morning to pick up that 3/8″ chisel. Well… they didn’t have one. That had a 10mm, which would have been close enough I suppose. But, it’s a nice day and I figured a drive out to Rockler wouldn’t be a bad idea, eleven miles away….
Next Mortise
X Marks the spot. For the next mortise. I’ll need to do four of these, one on the end of each stretcher. The width is 3/8 inch leaving wall thickness of 5/16. For some reason, I don’t have a 3/8 chisel, so I’ll need to pick up one of those tomorrow morning. Fortunately, they’re fairly…
Space Age Frig
We just experienced a whirlwind trip to Lowe’s this morning shopping for a new refrigerator and ended up spending an embarrassing amount of money. But! 24 months 0% interest! We couldn’t have been happier with the service at Lowes. Veteran’s Discount with no argument. New credit card discount. Already on sale (of course). It’s an…