I built a computer! A very primitive one, made out of breadboards, bare wire, and logic gates. But it’s fully functioning, it looks awesome, and unlike the staggering complexity of…
I made a computer - here's how it works! This is going to be too technical an overview for those without any background knowledge. But for those who made their…
I built a laser cutter! Specifically the Lasersaur, which is a professional grade open-source project. The idea is to use it to make more wooden topo maps, sell them on…
When building the Lasersaur laser cutter, a resource that was super helpful for me was Chris Derossi's excellent post on his own cost breakdown. I figured it's be useful to…
The Lasersaur build guide gives you a well-performing machine that can control your laser beam and put it anywhere on the cutting bed that you need it. But it conspicuously…
As is, the Lasersaur I built comes with a very capable interface, but along with the hardware mods there were a few tweaks to the UI and machine behavior that…
My first apartment in Denver had an incredible view that overlooked one of the large parks in the city: Cheesman Park. Cheesman Park was beautiful and active during the day…
So now that I have a fancy programmable computer working with its guts bare to the world, what can I do with it? Well, not much. The 8 bits of…
A couple months ago, I was on the internet and ran across Below The Boat, a website that sells wooden topographical maps of interesting lakefloors and seafloors around the world.…
Today I'll be walking you through the process how to of make a wooden laser-cut topo map. I made one of my hometown of Portland, ME as a 2015 Christmas present…