A co-worker of mine had recently acquired a used Super 8mm film projector with a burned bulb. Having a reputation of being somewhat of a tinkerer/mad scientist, he asked me if I could help him figure out a way to replace the bulb without buying a new one because, as it turn out, they are quite expensive and it would have costed more than what he paid for the projector. My plan was, as you…

I got married a few months ago and I thought that planning a wedding wasn't already stressful enough and decided that I wanted to bring some of my geekery to the reception and build all of our centerpieces. I was thinking of doing something like some of the firefly LED jars I saw online but my wife had the idea of having some kind of old-fashioned lantern so I decided to merge the two ideas…

I noticed that firmware dump for vintage synth can be incredibly hard to come by unless you know exactly where to look. Most of the time, if you are looking to upgrade or repair your favourite synth, you might find some firmware buried deep in synth forum's while some other seems to only be available by buying very overpriced preprogramed EPROM chip from sellers on eBay. This is my attempt at resolving the…

I recently got married and my girlfriend and I wanted to have our initial at the door of the reception hall but we also wanted them to be noticed. While they do sell premade letter with light in it, they were not only overly expensive for what they were but also not that pretty. It was either small incandescent lightbulb or very ugly white LED. I figured that I could do much better and set…