Field Reports from Erik's Laboratory

This post describes a way to make multi-color (multi-material / multi-extruder) objects in OpenSCAD suitable for 3D printing with a Read More

Project finished a few weeks ago: scratch-made cherry wood bookcase for our bedroom. We were getting tired of the piles of books accumulating on the floor from while to the older child after the earlier one had gone to sleep, plus this also gives us a place for the...

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Six years since World IPv6 Launch: entering the majority phases

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As reported in an ISOC...

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Our nursery lacked any light switches but did have some wall sconces.  As part of redecorating the room prior to making it a nursery back in 2013, I replaced the old sconces with some newer ones from Rejuvenation and installed a...

Shortly after our son was born back in 2013, we got a used Read More

With our little munchkin now being very curious whenever we're working in the kitchen, I decided to build him a Helping Tower based on plans from Ana White.  I haven't done many woodworking projects in...

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Shortly after my son was born I found that I was spending large amounts of time singing tunes and reading poems out of "board books"...

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No longer is IPv6 "just around the corner". It's here. In the half-year following when I last wrote about Read More

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Launching Forward with IPv6

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With the era of freely available...

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Ever since my early childhood I have fond memories of going to Camp Happy, my great aunt and uncles summer home up in Door County, Wisconsin.  The home was supposedly built as a replica of a hunting lodge from the Old World.  Installed above the fireplace was a...

Recently, our friends Ariel and Andy inspired me to try using the Cricut (a 2D cutting plotter that can be controlled with third-party software called Sure-Cuts-A-Lot) to assist in leather-tooling and provided some leather scraps to try with.  (I'd tried with the wrong...

When Ksusha and I got married, I decided to use it as an opportunity to write some software to manage all aspects of our wedding, from tracking guests and RSVPs to generating place cards for printing.  Given that half of the fun of wedding preparation (for us at least) was …

Early Spring in our house is a time for cooking and crafts projects as we celebrate both Passover and (Russian) Easter.  Both of these holidays are great excuses to cook lots of tasty recipes that we learned from our parents and grandparents, and then to enjoy this...

I just finished my first pumpkin for the year. I probably ended up with bits of pumpkin in my hair.

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Ksusha introduced me to Ferrero Rocher chocolates a few days ago. My first reaction after biting into it was "this would make a great model of the Earth!" (Well, maybe that was my second reaction. My first reaction was "tasty!")

Thus, it was necessary to slice one...

The plush sawzall that I made in the spring for the child of two friends of mine has finally been  Read More