Balancing the Budget

There’s any number of ways to keep a track of your budget but I don’t care about apps and all that, screw that nonsense. Remember when Microsoft Money was a thing? Never used it. One thing I have tried using over the years is the humble spreadsheet..

Ladder Mods

Well, I needed to get onto the roof of the house. Actually I needed to get onto the top roof of the house. The trouble is, with the geometry of the roof, plus the fact that to get onto the top roof, you need climb up to the low roof, then drag the ladder onto the low roof and then...

Cleaned Me Keyboard

I have an old Razer Blackwidow Something Something keyboard that I use on my main computer and for the last [long period of time] I’ve been looking at it and thinking, “that keyboard is really dirty, I should clean it” except I never did that because the computer was always turned on at the time...

Fixed Me Sunnies

Many years ago, like maybe 13, I was sitting in the restaurant at Cicerellos when my sunglasses dropped onto the concrete floor and cracked one of the lenses. They were unserviceable but I kept them because I… was an idiot who didn’t want to throw away a $300 pair of sunnies...

Float Memory Issues?

I added a call to print the memory info in my Pico LED array program and found something interesting. As long as the program only used integer maths, the memory usage was rock steady...

Got the Bike Going

So thanks to the colossal pile of orange garbage, $2.89/litre for diesel at the moment and I guess I missed my chance to fill up my jerry cans, which means I’m not driving the Land Rover any time soon, especially seeing how out of tune it is...

LED Screen

After I finished the little computer monitor, I immediately thought wouldn’t it be great if it could actually have a display. That would mean designing a circuit board or something to go in behind the screen, but the front bezel was not really designed for that and it’d be pretty janky using the existing one...

Retro Computer

I found out there’s such a thing as beige PLA and there was only one thing to do in response: I made a retro computer, Well, when I say I made a retro computer, what I mean is I made a model of a retro computer..

I Patched my Jeans.

Well, kinda jeans, trousers. I’ve got this pair of old work trousers that I’ve been using for garden work for the last 6 months or so and the knee finally started blowing out...

Power Board

About a year ago my UPS exploded after the power FETs decided to go short circuit and unsolder themselves from the board. My attempts at repair failed, so I pulled it apart...