The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning – Ed Nisley's Blog: Shop notes, electronics, firmware, machinery, 3D printing, laser cuttery, and curiosities. Contents: 100% human thinking, 0% AI slop.

The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

Ed Nisley's Blog: Shop notes, electronics, firmware, machinery, 3D printing, laser cuttery, and curiosities. Contents: 100% human thinking, 0% AI slop.

Punched Cards: Character Translation & Positioning

2026-02-06

Machine Shop

Art-ish, Laser Cutter

Resembling a well-worn IBM 029 keypunch ribbon

Bafang Programming Adapter: More Cable Colors

2021-05-28

Electronics Workbench Oddities Recumbent Bicycling

Improvements

It comes heartbreakingly close
Rt 376 Knotweed

2021-05-26

Recumbent Bicycling

Tax Dollars Asleep

Knotweed control requires repeated clearcutting and defoliation
Felco C7 Cable Cutter: Spring Repair

2021-05-25

Machine Shop

Repairs

Felco swaged the original spring pins into the handle
NYS DOT Motivation: Death

2021-05-24

Recumbent Bicycling Science

Improvements | Rants | Tax Dollars Asleep

We’ve been bicycling all our adult lives and haven’t been killed yet
House Flipping

2021-05-23

Home Ec Oddities

Rants

Bzzzz … click … NO CARRIER …
Nuthatch Threat Display

2021-05-22

Oddities Science

Wildlife

Nuthatches are perfectly happy hanging upside-down
Nuheara IQbuds² MAX vs. Bose Hearphones

2021-05-21

Electronics Workbench Home Ec

Hearing

A single tap on the right bud mutes the microphones