The Salad Days

I built a bench power supply from an old AT computer power supply I had laying around in the attic. I also made a custom enclosure for it. I let Sean pick what we would use to decorate the front of the supply - he chose Pikachu. The front panel was done on my laser engraver.

I converted that Christmas countdown clock into a desk clock for my desk at work. The enclosure is made of some scraps of black walnut that I had laying around that were too small to make anything with, but too pretty to throw away. I also included a photo of the guts of the thing for the geeks among you.

I built a Christmas countdown clock for the kids out of an Arduino, an RTC, and some seven-segment displays from Adafruit. It counts down to Christmas in "months.days.hours.minutes.seconds". It's also got some other modes - a countdown to Christmas in seconds, the current time in "year.month.day.hour.minute.second", the current time in Unix epoch seconds, and a "Chuck Norris" mode that occasionally spits out random Chuck Norris "quotes". After Christmas I am going to make a better looking wooden enclosure for this, and bring it to work to use as my desk clock.

I tried some other materials with the laser engraver this past weekend. I tried making some stickers out of some re-positionable sticker vinyl, and I also tried cutting some paper. Lighter colors of paper and any color of cardstock wouldn't cut, but darker colors cut just fine.

Finally finished the engraver and got the wiring all how I want it, and moved the whole thing to its final home on one of my shelves.