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DIY Balance Tire

Phil Tucker — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 20:38:38 +0000

Here's how you can turn an old tire into the perfect balance training device for surfing, snowboarding, skateboarding and more.

Tenergy Lumi Bloom Table Lamp as a Ceiling Fixture

Phil Tucker — Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:55:35 +0000

The Tenergy Lumi Bloom is a great, inexpensive, modular table lamp, here's how to convert it to a ceiling fixture.

Professor McBrainy’s Zany Vortex Optical Illusion Puzzle Solution

Phil Tucker — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 01:30:58 +0000

I came across this tile puzzle at a rental cottage and it frustrated most of those in attendance. When I returned home, I set my programming skills to task finding the solution.

Building a Civil War Big Muff Pi on Stripboard

Phil Tucker — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 04:50:25 +0000

Build an Electro-Harmonix "Civil War" Big Muff Pi on a stripboard/veroboard PCB.

Building a $50 Klon Centaur Clone Kit

Phil Tucker — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:16:30 +0000

On a new YouTube channel, The Joy of Electronics, I build a Klon Centaur clone effects pedal from an inexpensive kit.

The real life battlefields that inspired Call of Duty: WWII

Phil Tucker — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:17:12 +0000

How close are Call of Duty: WWII's maps to the real battlefields on which they were based? See for yourself in this gallery of comparisons.

DIY toddler balance bike headlight

Phil Tucker — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:18:23 +0000

Light up your little one's balance bike with this simple do-it-yourself headlight.

Arduino Hot Wheels Drag Strip Race Track

Phil Tucker — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:40:00 +0000

For my son’s second birthday I decided to introduce him to die-cast cars and what better way than building a drag strip race track with an electronic start gate, timing and race results? While Hot Wheels does offer a 6-Lane …

IKEA Hack: MIDI Enabled Highscore Chair

Phil Tucker — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 18:20:33 +0000

At $5 a pop it's quite affordable to purchase multiple trays for this IKEA highchair and make them into activity centers, such as this pro-gamer training rig.

DIY Copper pipe pedicel chandelier

Phil Tucker — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:42:39 +0000

As a soon-to-be parent with time to spare, uh, yeah, I thought I’d take it upon myself to create a fawn’s horn chandelier for the nursery.

Fiber optic starry sky nursery

Phil Tucker — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 15:44:10 +0000

There's nothing more comforting to an infant than the feeling that they've been left in the woods under a wondrous, awe inspiring, night sky.

Installing a modern railing on a closed box staircase

Phil Tucker — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:25:53 +0000

A year or two ago, suffering from terrible decor overload, I tore out the terrible gaudy beige and gold twisted, scrolling picket staircase railing which adorned our main stairway. After much searching and planning I found and installed a fantastic modern solution.

New band lineup baby announcement

Phil Tucker — Tue, 03 Jun 2014 14:10:27 +0000

My wife Ester and I are expecting and since we’re both musicians we grabbed our guitars and did a fun photoshoot to announce our good news. Inspired by this creative announcement we came across.

Maker Wedding: Animated HTML / jQuery wedding site

Phil Tucker — Thu, 15 May 2014 17:38:40 +0000

One of the projects I took on for our wedding was our official wedding website, I registered two domains, esterandphil.com as well as philandester.com thus avoiding any confusion. Both site pointed to the same page, for the general public a …

Maker Wedding: Thank you Edison-style light fixtures

Phil Tucker — Sat, 10 May 2014 18:52:07 +0000

Close to one year after our wedding, my wife Ester and I are, at long-last, sending out thank you packages. Having handcrafted the rustic Edison-style light fixtures for our wedding reception (with some much appreciated assembly line help from my Dad) we had hoped that we would be able to send those same lights to family and friends who not only shared and supported us on our wedding day, but support our family on a daily basis. In this way a light which helped to brighten our wedding festivities may continue to brighten, in some small way, the lives of our family and friends.

Video: Far From Any Road, True Detective Intro Song Cover

Phil Tucker — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 14:14:51 +0000

My gal Ester and I do a cover of the True Detective intro song, Far From Any Road, originally by The Handsome Family.

DIY reclaimed lumber hanging Edison bulb chandelier

Phil Tucker — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 23:40:57 +0000

This DIY reclaimed lumber chandelier with hanging Edison bulbs is easy and quite self-explanatory, though I will explain somewhat.

DIY steampunk-style iron pipe Edison fixture

Phil Tucker — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:31:55 +0000

I've been seeing these types of steampunk black malleable iron on the net for years, it was only a matter of time before I went and made one. The texture of the iron combined with the warm vacuum-tube glow is quite an amazing effect, and they certainly look easy to make.

A Maker Wedding

Phil Tucker — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:57:33 +0000

For me our wedding meant soldering, stripping, crimping, twisting, programming and no small amount of brow furrowing.

Maker Wedding: Animated Arduino LED matrix lounge table top

Phil Tucker — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:57:14 +0000

Finally got around to making an LED table top, as it turns out -- for my wedding reception. We decided to have a lounge area and an LED coffee table seemed like the perfect centerpiece for it.

Maker Wedding: Bachelor party wireless accelerometer Stab-O-Meter

Phil Tucker — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:56:21 +0000

I decided to put together a wireless accelerometer to hopefully measure the speed and impact of various activities such as swinging a baseball bat, a sledgehammer, a hatchet, a tennis racket -- get the idea?

Maker Wedding: Vinyl “flexi” record wedding invitations

Phil Tucker — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:55:36 +0000

My wife and I enjoy music immensely and are both enthusiastic musicians, with that in mind we decided to have vinyl flexi records cut for our wedding invites.

Maker Wedding: XBee remote relay as photobooth RF camera trigger

Phil Tucker — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:55:07 +0000

How to make an RF camera trigger using two XBees and a relay.

Maker Wedding: Rustic Edison-style hanging light fixtures

Phil Tucker — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:55:26 +0000

With the rustic nature of the barn and the impressively high ceilings, one type of lighting sprang to mind instantly -- Edison-style bulbs.

Video: Triggering lights with guitar frequency levels

Phil Tucker — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:14:57 +0000

How to trigger lights automatically while playing guitar based on the audio signal.

Sync: The filthy gear of Tough Mudders

Phil Tucker — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:23:07 +0000

The world’s premier adventure race has finally made its way to Canada. Approximately 20,000 participated in central Canada’s first taste of Tough Mudder — I was one of them. Read on for a sampling of the gear that’s as tough …

“Spaghetti” IP Cam / Arduino Motion Detect Sprinkler

Phil Tucker — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 23:04:14 +0000

After a neighbourhood dog decided my front lawn was a fantastic place to poop on and his owners decided that they don’t care for bylaws I set upon finding a solution. Sure you could try cayenne pepper, mothballs, ammonia or …

Video: Slow-motion speed bag and affordable high-speed video

Phil Tucker — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:50:20 +0000

Who doesn’t like watching stuff in slow-motion? Ever since I added a speed bag to my workout I’ve been wanting to see exactly what’s going on in slow-motion — turns out, exactly what you’d expect. The camera I used was …

osPID Sous Vide: Open source high tech cooking on a budget

Phil Tucker — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 17:08:06 +0000

Commercial sous vide cookers can be extremely expensive. Creating one yourself is easy and it can be taken apart for storage, you can also salvage parts from it for other projects if need be.

A year with MySpace support

Phil Tucker — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:59:50 +0000

A couple of years back I tried to edit my antiquated MySpace profile and found that all attempts to change any info resulted in a server-side error rendering my profile all but useless. So I proceeded to enlist the help …

Ghetto Daft Punk Helmet

Phil Tucker — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:21:06 +0000

Oh the grandest of plans I had, to create an ultra slick Daft Punk Helmet replica (as others have done), alas time ran out so I just crammed one together. A bunch of ShiftBrites (stolen from my Wine-O-Meter) driven by …

Ardunio Wine-O-Meter

Phil Tucker — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:21:39 +0000

The MQ-3 Gas/Alcohol sensor is not accurate enough to use for any serious breathalyzer applications, it also needs to be properly calibrated which is a process I did not undertake. The 25 Shiftbrites are powered by a 4.5volt 500mA adapter, …

30 Second iPad Stand

Phil Tucker — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:17:21 +0000

What can’t coat hangers do? I came up with the idea for this stand and made this video to help advertise my ohDisco! iPad app, a quarter of a million views ain’t bad.

Thingamagoop Alarm Clock Mod

Phil Tucker — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:03:46 +0000

You Tube Demo Thingamagoop Alarm Clock Mod Meet Bob. My favourite gal got me a Thingamagoop, from Bleep Labs for my birthday so I named him Bob ( after Mr. Moog ) and I’ve been listening to his chatter now …

Converting the Canon TC-80N3 for use with the Rebel XT (and others)

Phil Tucker — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:59:00 +0000

After having fun with some infrared and macro photography I wanted to try some time lapse. Some cameras have built in intervalometers ( big word for interval timers ) which allow you to do time lapse with little effort. Sadly …

Macro Photography on the Cheap (ish)

Phil Tucker — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:56:24 +0000

Not long after I picked up my Canon Rebel XT 350D I realized the stock lense left a lot to be desired. After drooling over numerous macro photos on Flickr from this same camera I decided to look into a macro lense. …

Kaoss Guitar, Korg Kaoss Pad / Epiphone Les Paul Mod

Phil Tucker — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:34:42 +0000

A plan began to form. How hard would it be to put the touch pad on a cable of some sort and then mount it on a guitar?

MAME Arcade Cabinet

Phil Tucker — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:08:55 +0000

I went and made a Mame cabinet.