I took a lovely picture this summer of a giant robber fly eating a cicada. The picture was taken in Washington county, Oklahoma. I observed the take-down myself while working in the garage. The robber fly ambushed the cicada while it was sitting on an overhanging branch of the nearby hackberry tree. In the above …
I have returned from the dead and am back from hiatus. This brief intermission was due to moving and real-life delays. Please enjoy this entertaining image of my cat carrying his favorite toy as a gesture, re-welcoming you to this blog now that I am back from hiatus.
Continuing from last week’s post, this week we will be adding labels to our MOSFET in TikZ and adding slide animations with Beamer. As a reminder, last week we drew our image of a MOSFET in Tikz before adding colors. The colors we added were based on the materials used in each part of the …
LaTeX: Drawing MOSFET in TikZ – Labels and Animation Read More »
I’m a big fan of using LaTeX for my scientific writing. (What is LaTeX? It is a typesetting programming language that gives you much more flexibility than other writing environments. wikipedia) Since I have some time on my hands, I wanted to prepare for future presentations by writing up some notes and slides using in …
Continued from the last two weeks, here is the final installment of The Witch Mask. Internals With the witch mask exterior painted and sealed, the internals were applied. The interior was painted black with acrylic paint and sealed with Mod Podge. I wanted to avoid using a strap around the back, as I have found …
Continuing from last week’s post, here is part 2 of The Witch Mask. Designing the Face After several more layers of my special paper mache/plaster mix, the mask has been built up to a the final texture. For this mask, I believe I have 5 more layers since the first two I showed last week. …
In early 2014, I was inspired to make some mask art. The final piece has no proper name, but I refer to it when speaking to others as “The Witch Mask”. Work on the mask was undertaken over several months, finally completed in October 2014. This post and the related follow up posts will detail …
Minor note: I got my PhD the other day. No big deal. The important part of the story is that I got a sweet graduation present from my mom. She bought me the 3D printer of my choice. Talk about awesome! I decided to go with a machine I have had some experience working on/with …
The Purchase and Return of a Makerbot Replicator+ Read More »
A while back, there was some discussion about fountain pen ink pH. During that discussion, I offered to test inks and my friend from the Geekhack forum, CPTBadass, offered to donate some samples for my tests. I received samples from my good CPT in the mail, and I went about running tests. This post is …
Fountain Pen Ink pH – A Comparison of Five Commercial Inks Read More »
I decided that I should do my own IBM Model M mod. In early March of 2015, I bought a Model M from a Geekhack user on the cheap. The keyboard was bolt modded, had a wonky membrane, and no cable. I did a few mods to it. The Caps I dyed the caps aqua colored utilizing …