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Lasercut DnD Condition Rings
Here’s another recent project I did for DnD. There are various conditions that characters can get in the game. For example you might be hit by a spell and end up paralyzed. Or ‘Charmed’, which can basically mean you can … Continue reading
The Druid WildCase – A totally unnecessary addon for DnD
Here’s a fun and over the top project I recently did for Dungeons and Dragons (DnD). One of the options for players is to be a Druid, which grants a “Wildshape” ability and allows you to turn into various animals … Continue reading
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Lasercut DnD Scenery
Here’s a design I made recently for Dungeons and Dragons scenery using a lasercutter. I created a bunch of tiles based on a standard 25.4mm grid. The walls are made from two layers of 3mm plywood back-to-back, which allows both … Continue reading
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Roadside Picnic – A Nitpick on How to Shoot the Earth
This blog post is all about a line from the Russian scifi novel “Roadside Picnic“, written in 1971 by the Strugatsky brothers. The book itself went on to influence huge amounts of science fiction and cinema, including the 1979 film … Continue reading
Backrooms Async Lab Diorama – One Day Build
Here’s a quick one day build project, inspired by Kane Pixel’s awesome youtube channel, and this video in particular. I lasercut the enclosure out of 7mm plywood. And used cheap adhesive acrylic mirrors on all four sides of the inner … Continue reading
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Do flat tyres make your speedo lie? (Part 2)
OK, I decided to do a bit more testing, using the CANBUS data of the car, given that a few people have pointed out that “Indirect TPMS” (Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems) exist, and use the ABS wheel encoders to infer … Continue reading
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Do flat tyres make your speedo lie?
This is a question that I’ve seen debated a few times, both in person and on the internet. It’s not quite in the same league as the immortal argument starter “airplane-on-a-treadmill”, but it has many of the same features. To … Continue reading
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Display box for a KP1-4 High Voltage Variable Cap
I was recently at the Central Coast Amateur Radio Club’s annual get together. And I saw this beautiful glass vacuum tube there. It’s a vintage Russian KP1-4 high voltage capacitor. Basically two metal plates in a vacuum separated from each … Continue reading
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Spiral Music Visualization using Teensy or Python
Here’s a project I finished a couple of years ago, but never got around to posting. It’s a way to visualize music differently to the standard notation. The notes are wrapped in a spiral fashion, with one rotation per octave. … Continue reading
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Origami Maths – Face Graph of a Hypercube
Here’s a quick little project I never got around to writing up. A while ago I was doing a dive into group/category theory and playing around with graphs of various polytopes. I wanted to make a model of the faces … Continue reading
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