Why Live Music? A Serious Question
Your car stereo. Your computer. Your MP3 player. Your phone. We’ve never had more technology enabling us to listen to music, and that technology has never been more mobile. And with services like...
View ArticleThe Steampunk World’s Fair is this weekend!
Hi Folks! Come join me at the 2014 Steampunk World's Fair in Piscataway New Jersey! I'll be bringing my Victorian RV and many of the steampunk objects I've made over the years. There will be an...
View ArticleQuickest Way to Clone Windows (and Windows Server) Disk with GPartEd
A quick tech note from the day job some of you might find useful. GPartEd is a fantastic free tool for copying and resizing disk partitions, but cloning an entire Windows disk often requires tweaking...
View ArticleHexayurt Swamp Cooler for Burning Man!
My family is going to Burning Man this year! I've been twice in the past and there have been a few things about my experience that were less than comfortable. The biggest problem I had on the playa was...
View ArticleHexayurt for Burning Man
My family and I are headed to Burning Man this year. I have been twice in the past and have always stayed in a tent. I was reasonably comfortable, however sleeping late was problematic. As soon as the...
View ArticleNightmare Blues – New from Aaron J. Shay
Friend of SPWS Aaron J. Shay has released a new music video for his banjo-rock barnstormer “Nightmare Blues” just in time for Halloween! Described by one participant as what would happen “if Neil...
View ArticleCuisinart Top Interlock Repair
We got our first Cuisinart in 1982. It served us well for more than a decade so when it finally gave up the ghost we purchased another one. We were dismayed to find that the new Cuisinart Custom 14 had...
View ArticleStudio Softbox Flash Ceiling Bracket
One of the reasons I redesigned The Steampunk Workshop website is that I thought WordPress with it’s easier to use interface and more flexible authoring would entice me to publish more stories. But an...
View ArticleDIY Powder Coat/Curing/Reflow Oven
I found a very clean, barely used toaster oven at the dump. I originally intended it for the kitchen but it turned out that the toast function timer was bad, so off it went to the workshop. I tried...
View ArticleNo Such Thing as a Free Hot Tub
We got our first hot tub at a garage sale for $50. We took it home and filled it up and found that the temperature controller no longer worked. The filter housing and skimmer also leaked because the...
View ArticleWho Ya Gonna Call? 2014 Hallowe’en Decorations
This year our theme for Hallowe’en was Ghostbusters! The inspiration was my wife’s as she looked at the 1973 VW Type III Squareback that is sittng in our driveway. Her name (the car, not my wife) is...
View ArticleConverting Welch Allyn Otoscope & Opthalmoscope to “C” Batteries
Like many small New England towns we don’t have curbside pickup for our trash, instead we bundle everything up and take it to the town dump on Saturdays. This would seem like an inconvenience but, also...
View ArticleOrganizing All Of The Things
I have limited space in my shop and am constantly trying to condense the volume of space that my materials and supplies take up while still allowing me to find what I am looking for without digging...
View ArticleMicrophone Stand Camera Adapter
This is a superquick 3-D printing project. I found in the past that when I film videos in the workshop I am very often tripping over the tripod and the camera never seems to be in a convenient position...
View ArticleWarehouse 13 1/8
It all started with a bad snowstorm when the two metal sheds in our backyard collapsed under the snow load. I contacted our insurance agent and we were indeed covered. However there was an issue with...
View ArticleA Bowl My Dad Made from Spalted Maple
A bowl my Dad made from a limb of the tree that held my childhood treehouse.
View ArticleDIY Table Saw Dust Collector
I am very careful with saw dust in my workshop ever since discovering that I was allergic to it several years ago. However, I’ve gotten tired of dragging my large shop vac from machine to machine in my...
View Article3D Printed Wimshurst Machine
In the winter time, whenever I pulled a large flat part of off the print bed of my RepRap Prusa Mendel, I would notice a great deal of static electricity. One day the thought occurred to me that I...
View ArticleCutting Steel with a Skil Saw Blade
I’m am bolting a bunch of scrap steel together to make an anvil and I need the pieces to fit as tightly together as possible so I’ve been milling the surfaces on the CNC mill. I created a piece with a...
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