I do ham radio. Probably the coolest thing I’ve “made” is a setup where I can send email without the need for an internet connection on my end. I use a small laptop connected to a transceiver to send out high-frequency sounds (VARA) on very low power (5-10 watts) to towers around the world that will decode the signals, convert it to a regular email, and send it to the recipient (bob@overthere.com). Then reverse the process when I check for a reply. The whole setup fits in a small backpack and I can use a piece of speaker wire for the antenna. It’s about as fast as dial-up used to be, but it works!

When I was a teenager, I made a trebuchet. It was so fun. It was not sophisticated at all – just made of 2x4 with a steel rod as the axle. The axle was about 1 m from the ground, to give you a sense of its size. It wasn’t large, but it could throw things quite far (about 60 m).

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I’ve made four sci-fi novels, self-published them and am working on the fifth. I have been making sketches and paintings and done many exhibitions.

I’ve recorded a few audiobooks for Librivox, a group that releases free recordings of public domain books. I use my government name for them, so I won’t say which ones, but you might have heard my voice if you picked the right one from !audiobooks@literature.cafe

I’ve gotten into website making. Like old-school personal website making, not the boring corporate template nonsense. It’s really been a joy to go back to html and css (and JavaScript sometimes, I guess) and make something

I make songs. I’m not sure how to link to them or any of my artist profiles without doxxing myself but yeah. I make songs. It makes me happy.

I made a human once, turned out well

I’ve made contributions* to the OEIS, but since they require real names over there, and I like my anonymity here, I won’t say which entries have my mark on them. Bow ties Number sequences are cool.

You’re better off visiting the whole thing anyway.

* Mathematical, not financial, though I’d do the latter too if I had much to spare.

I’ve posted her elsewhere, but this is Teana. A few years back, my boy wanted a posable body for a Halloween Halloween monkey who’s head broke off. One rabbit hole later and I was knee deep in the ball-joint doll section of the 3d printing community. He and I decided we’d make our own but as monsters.

The smoothing process for the white ABS I was using reminded me of my time working with porcelain and that’s how Teana happened. Eventually Id like to sew a little dress and pose her on my brick-a-brack shelf in a decorative cloche.

More recently I’ve been building a mid century modern sectonal couch out of scrap lumber and a memory foam mattress. I’m far from a carpenter, didn’t even own saw when I started, but it’s coming together very nicely. It will look great with my TV.

It was a later model zenith with a broken screen. It’s not the real wood style my parents had, the front is molded plastic, but it still feels nice. I gutted it, used a dremel to widen the hole behind the face, and nylon straps to hold up a cheap 32in from Walmart. I then disassembled an old tower and built it into the empty space inside and mounted a soundbar to echo off the back wall. The screen actually loses about 4cm off the edges became of the frame, but it feels more like the classic aspect ratio and that’s nice. Also I’ve yet to watch a movie that needed that area anyway.

Earlier this year I made a short video essay about how Dr. Mario’s garbage mechanics are unusually different from the rest of the versus puzzle genre. I think it’s my best work yet… but sadly it ended up as my worst view count.

I just finished another video about another versus puzzle game that I plan to publish tomorrow, but can’t share it quite yet so click the Dr. Mario one instead I guess.

I released a couple of albums, unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on how you’re looking at it, the great myspace purge of whenever the fuck that happened deleted their existence off of the face of the planet.

I got into home distilling during the pandemic. Fun, and damn fine sipping. Done gin, whiskey and vodka I’m proud of. My rum was a failure, but only in the sense that it tasted like whiskey. The congeners for rum are too hard for my setup. Aged in an oak barrel and everything.

I made a an excellent coffee liqueur with my magicks, home roasted beans used in a cold booze-pressed espresso and a vanilla bean then aged on oak and applewood.

It was the inspiration for my username - you can “correct” any coffee based drink with quality booze. Yum.

I completed my new bed about a month ago.

Since then, I refurbished a desk, and built a changing bench.

I have plans completed for a hallway table, and a foot stool. I’m waiting for it to get a bit cooler, I’ll probably start in a couple of weeks.

A fractal calculator where each non-operation buttons are calculator themselves once you zoom in, and the result in that calculator becomes the number it puts as a button, in C.