3D Printing an Aquarium LED Fixture

3D Printing an Aquarium LED Fixture

As previously mentioned, I have become interested in Aquarium Lighting, so I found some LED fixtures and decided to design a sheet metal fixture with plastic end caps and snap on feet. After much research, I decided it would be least expensive to use the online services Ponoko and Shapeways to 3D print the plastic [...]

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Aquarium Lighting Concept

Aquarium Lighting Concept

I’ve been interested in saltwater aquariums since I was a child but I’ve always known the hobby to require a tremendous amount of maintenance, startup capital, and time. But, now, the technology has come a long way, and whereas previously the smallest tank you could start with was 30 gallons, you can now create pico [...]

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New Blog Design

As many of you may have noticed, I”ve finally gotten around to changing the design of my blog. I’ve been looking for a quick and easy template solution for creating a number of websites, and I thought I’d start by trying my latest favorite WordPress framework on this site. The framework I’m talking about is from WooThemes [...]

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Epson vs HP

Epson vs HP

I certainly like to buy local, and HP seems to me to be more local than Epson- for sure.  And, I've purchased a couple HP ePrint machines over the last year. They're great for wireless printing from iPads and iPhones because they just work. Sadly, though, not for long. I've had to return two of [...]

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Saving iPad Keynote files to DropBox

Saving iPad Keynote files to DropBox

As many of you know, exporting files from Apple’s Keynote presentation software in iPad can be a real pain. Especially if the files are large– because email clients and iPad tend to barf on files any larger than a couple Mbs. And, my presentations are typically at least 10Mbs, so the only solution has been [...]

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A Completely Different Sort of Storage Memory…

A Completely Different Sort of Storage Memory…

SecureThought™ Memory Vault by Altuit, Inc. available second quarter 2018 Been awhile since I did anything in my favorite modeling program, SketchUp– so this past weekend I set a goal to ‘speed’ design and model a couple of fantasy products. I’ll probably use them for a website design in the future, but for now, let’s [...]

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