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

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

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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"...

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...

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