http://www.jfernsler.com/blog a whole bunch of projects that are probably incomplete. Mon, 24 May 2010 20:01:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This I made for my Uncle. He's an excellent guitar player and I thought he'd like the challenge of something a little more rough. The cbg (cigar box guitar) came as a kit from mojocbg. It's simple enough to get all the parts individually, but I was in a time ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=48 Not much here, but as per tradition I made a sock monkey for my niece's first birthday, my 4th sock monkey overall, but I have to admit to help on this one from the wife. I was running a little behind w/ 2 projects going on at once.... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=44 After watching the behind the scenes features to the latest Star Trek, I was struck by a couple of things. First, how JJ Abrams created that heightened sense of energy by constantly drumming on the camera during takes. Second, how the guy at ILM (sorry didn't catch the name) had ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=29 I've fallen behind already... I need to post here about a chair that I repaired, a set of drawers I fixed, our gardening attempts as well as other things. I'll get around to it soon enough... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=28 my first dive into using ponoko was to create a hubble telescope necklace pendant for my wife. the ponoko service was really nice to deal with with a great site and great people. overall a great experience - my only beef was that the shipping cost as much as the ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=20 blog relaunch - hopefully I'll phase in a new look, but mostly my intent is to be more proactive w/ presenting my projects. look for projects around the house, insignificant projects I find interesting, arduino projects, processing.org projects, 3d projects and generally anything else I may find myself interested in… http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=18 I made a 6 bulb lamp a few weeks ago, it still has some finishing touches that need to be done, but it's been a nice thing to have around. The fixtures hang at the end of cords at varying lengths. The cords collect at the top and are wired ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=17 So I soldered up the LEDs on some protoboard for something a little more permanent and to get them off of the breadboard to make room for other things. Here's the soldering job - a little messy, yes, but it works. there are 2 red LEDS, 2 green and 3 blues. ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=16 I've seen a few mood lamp postings around so I decided to build my own. In it's current incarnation it does a slow hue cycle when powered on and waits for serial data in the mean time. When it recieves serial data it alters it's color based on that data. ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=15 New parts are in! I've got some small PIC microcontrollers to handle hardware PWM for the lights while allowing serial input to define the brightness values. I don't know how to do that yet, but the theory is there.. HA. Also I've got in some all important male and female ... http://www.jfernsler.com/blog/?p=14