Well, I finally finished it! The pinewood derby timer is done. Check it out! First, I had to finish the wiring for the lights and the sensors, and then I […]
Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Wiring in the displays
Now that I have the displays mounted on the pinewood derby timer, it was time to wire them in. I still don’t have lights or sensors in yet, but I […]
Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: 3D printing some display covers
Well, I decided to print a few display covers to go around the LED displays. This covers up the unsightly hole that I cut from the box, and seems to […]
Merry Christmas!
O holy night The stars are brightly shining It is the night of our dear Savior’s birth Long lay the world in sin and error pining Till he appeared and […]
Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: The Box for the “Arch”
As I have been constructing this Pinewood Derby Timer, I needed some sort of box or enclosure to make the top of the arch. So I took apart a junk […]
Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Setting up the LED displays
So one of the driving components (pun intended) of the derby timer is the LED displays. I went with the smaller ones from Adafruit, as we wouldn’t need a second […]
Building a Pinewood Derby Timer: Getting the schematics and parts list…
A local church group that I attend needed some help with an Awana project. They use a pinewood derby track for racing cars, and they needed a timer built for […]
Damp dryers…
Somewhat of a break from the norm, but today the dryer quit drying. The clothes stayed damp, and there was no heat inside the dryer when you opened the door. […]
Audacity on a Mac running Catalina
Well, we haven’t seen an Apple product on this website in a long time. I think the last time I wrote about an Apple product, I was trying to emulate […]
LG Watch Urbane gave up on me!
At some point, everything will fail. And for my LG watch Urbane, fail it did. It wasn’t epic. Rather it was quiet. One morning, after it sat in the charger […]