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This project was a reminder that nothing is ever straight, level, plumb, flat, or co-planar. I'll be the only one who sees the variations in the reveals around the drawers, but I'll see them every day until I die. The space underneath our stairs was mostl

A couple of years ago, my wife and I decided that I should remodel our kitchen. It had been untouched since being built in 1993; it featured a frustrating tiled countertop, and the cabinet doors had begun falling off their hinges. Before I demolished the

Think back to the last time you heard a song that mentioned Cupid. (It may be helpful to put yourself in a certain February holiday frame of mind.) Did the song rhyme anything with cupid? It did? What word did the songwriter user? Was it stupid? It was? I

Eleven years ago, I released LEGO.scad, an OpenSCAD library for generating 3D-printable LEGO-compatible bricks. Today, I present to you Technic.scad, an OpenSCAD library for generating 3D-printable LEGO Technic-compatible parts. Technic.scad can generate

I've been programming in primarily PHP for the last 20 years, and sadly, most of the fun new projects do not use PHP. While the mechanics of every programming language are generally the same (except for you, Haskell), the idioms vary - how do you loop thr

This weekend, I finished building a craft cabinet to hold all of our kids' art supplies; plus, it has a built-in faucet for refilling our dog's water dish so we don't have to carry it to the sink every day. The faucet for the dog dish is spring-loaded, so

I recently learned about Gridfinity, a modular open-source storage system created by Zack Freedman. It uses a baseplate grid of 42mm squares; you can 3D-print pre-existing bin designs, or you can design your own custom containers to fit into the grid.Our

I'm in the process of remodeling the stairway in my house. I wanted to replace the old wooden balusters, some of which had broken and been repaired multiple times, with new metal balusters. Pictured above: the old balusters, minus the most-recently broken

The Blueair Blue Pure 311 Auto air purifier requires a plastic cage to support the filter. Theoretically, if you accidentally throw away the plastic cage when you change the filter, you will be unable to use the air purifier. Theoretically, if you have a