Convection stoves and steel pot lids are a bad combination. The lid handles are solid steel — elegant, heat-conducting, unforgiving. After burning myself one too many times checking on a sauce, I decided the 3D printer was going to fix this. The concept was simple: a snug cap that slips over the existing knob and gives you something that doesn't conduct heat. PETG was the obvious material choice — PLA softens in warm environments, which is exactly the wrong property for somet

Fourteen years ago I built my first quiz buzzer system . It worked, but the hardware was — let's say — a product of its constraints. I used every single IO pin on the Arduino, plus a 74HC595 shift register and two 74LS32 OR gate chips just to drive the LEDs. It was held together by necessity and a certain stubbornness that I think is just part of making things. I always told myself I'd revisit it. This year, I finally did. The Brief I Set Myself The original build worked, but

I want to be upfront, I went into this experiment with low expectations. Not because I doubt AI tools — I use them all the time — but because what I was trying to do felt like a weird edge case. I wanted to use Claude Code to write OpenSCAD, a programming language for building 3D objects in code. No drag-and-drop, no visual modeling. Just pure, parametric geometry defined in text. Would Claude even understand it well enough to be useful? Could I describe a physical object in

After 10 years of absence, I’m challenging myself to complete one project per week for fifty-two weeks.