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Adirondack chairs

Adirondack chairs

So my wife wanted some Adirondack chairs for around the fire pit. No problem I thought, I can make them. Little did I know how much effort it would take! I bought some plans from Rockler.com. The plans contained cardboard templates, lumber requirments, and cut & assembly instructions. All in

Washing Machine Halloween Costume

Washing Machine Halloween Costume

It's been awhile since I've posted, so I thought I'd hightlight an oldie, but goodie. We have to go back to Halloween 2016. My daughter came to me and said that she and a friend wanted to be a washing machine and dryer. Well, that got my brain spinning, and

brettmorgan.net is back

I finally had some spare time, so I got brettmorgan.net back up. Docker Cloud went bust on me, so I had to redeploy everything on a new server. Since it had been awhile I also had to upgrade my Ghost publishing software from 0.11 version all the way

Dragon Mask

To follow up on Wolf Mask, I made a Dragon Mask for my other daughter. Sorry I only have a few pictures.

Wolf mask

I made this mask last year for my daughters play. Basically all corrugated cardboard. I 3D printed the eyes and painted. Molding clay for the teeth. The Mask in Action

Cardboard Armor

Cardboard Armor

My daughter needed some armor for her 6th grade Joan of Arc presentation. I got the idea from here, Knight Cardboard Costume. Here are a couple pics. I forgot to take one my daughter. Maybe when she gets it back from school.

Awesome Waterjet Cutter

I want this! Any angel investors out there what to pay for my Makerspace! The First Desktop Waterjet Cutter

Weekend Project: New Quadcopter Landing Gear

Weekend Project: New Quadcopter Landing Gear

My quadcopter has been collecting dust for about a year because of broken landing gear from a hard landing. I decide last weekend that it was time to fix that. I'd been using some Lego to as landing gear to give room for my Tarot GoPro gimbal. See here: I've

Moved to Docker Cloud

I've always liked to use my website to test out new technology. Recently I stopped hosting a few external sites for friends and family, which closed down my revenue stream to cover hosting charges. I was only paying $45 a month, but that adds up over a year. I needed

Clojure Transducers

I like this blog post on Clojure Transducers, Understanding Transducers. Explains transducers very simply.

Shapeoko 3 CNC Machine

A couple of weeks ago I recieved my new Shapeoko 3 CNC Machine. It's a kit, so some assembly was requried. Having only evenings, after the kids are asleep, to work on my hobbies, it took me 2 or 3 nights to get the machine assemblied. Every thing was pretty

Docker

So many cool technologies, so little time. For the first half of 2015 I've worked to exponentially expand the software team I work on to over 100 people. This has brought of changes organizationally (another topic), and now requires that we make changed to our application architecture to allow such

I got hacked

Today I got an email from the nice sysadmins at Rimuhosting telling me that my VPS had been hacked, and the hacker installed a root level exploit. I'd like to thank the Rimuhosting sysadmins for there quick response. They identified excessive network traffic coming from my host, investigated, shutdown my

iBeacon

So I had a Raspberry Pi kicking around and it was just screaming to be used for a new project. Previously I had set it up as a VPN server to access my home network when I was away. Alas, things have changed, and a VPN is no longer needed,

What interests me now in software

As a software developer I continually check out what's new in software. Whether it is a programming language, framework, or application, I love checking things out and seeing how they might help me, or teach me something new. Here's what I'm looking at now. * Clojure - I steered clear of

Alta Ski Trip

Just got back from a great ski trip to Alta. The place is so simple, yet amazing. Here's the highlight reel.

Christmas 2013

Awesome Christmas 2013! The girls were so excited. Here's a video summary taken with my new GoPro Hero 3+ Black (Thanks Opa)!

Drones

Waiting eagerly for my package to arrive from 3D Robotics. I ordered the latest APM 2.6 autopilot. About a year ago I built my first quadcopter (aka. drone) using the APM 2.0, and a collection of parts I bought from Hobby King. More than half the fun was

First Post

Well let's see. I've moved to Massachusetts. It's fun so far. Skied some, played some Ultimate Frisbee. Got an office in town. Made some new friends. Girls are in a Waldorf school. If only there was a large body of water nearby with some wind. sigh! Now I've got a