DIY 3D Printed Sterling Silver Sapphire Ring

My friend Griffin recently sent me a text explaining how he modeled a copy of an expensive ring in Blender and sent the mesh file to a casting company who had it cast in sterling silver all for under $35. I couldn’t help but become obsessed with that project. I immediately asked my girlfriend Kari […]
3D Printed Turbine EDF

I needed a way to justify buying a 3d printer, and this came in the form of a free turbocharger from work that I turned into a turbine electric ducted fan
Christian’s Bikes

Over the years I have owned a lot of bikes ranging from a custom built Kawasaki Brawler to a Honda dirt bike that I rebuilt
Christian’s projects

My brother has the same unhealthy addiction to projects that I have, in fact I blame him for it. Come see what he’s built over the years
Self Hosted Analytics

Get a behind the scenes look at the data websites collect about you and learn how I built my own analytics system
Ikea armchair repair

I broke Kari’s nice Ikea armchair, so I went overkill and designed a laser cut steel sheet to repair it
All the projects that don’t deserve their own post

I haven’t always been good about documenting my projects, but I have always been building. Check out the projects that I’ve lost track of
A (failed) attempt at a vapor deposition chamber

Building a physical vapor deposition chamber to test a homemade sputter gun and hot tungsten boat deposition of copper onto glass
How I self hosted this website

In this post I’ll go over what it took to build my own server and host my own website from my apartment using Proxmox, Linux and Wordpress
DIY OPNSense Firewall

If you ever decide to host your own website you’ll immediately get hit with the very steep learning curve of network security and becoming your own system admin. Here is one small part of my self hosted journey: My firewall. This all started about 6 months ago when my brother texted me saying his work […]