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.

OMTech Laser: It Was The Focus Pen Wire

2025-12-26

Electronics Workbench, Machine Shop, Oddities

Laser Cutter, Repairs

There is a break somewhere along the blue wire

Kindle Fire Power Switch Rebuild

2016-10-14

Electronics Workbench

Repairs

The single moving part on my first-generation Kindle Fire tablet stopped working
Pencil Guides for Ruler Quilting

2016-10-13

Home Ec Software

M2 | Sewing

They had zero perimeter zits and the OD came out 0.500 inch on the dot
Vacuum Tube LEDs: Now With Morse Code

2016-10-12

Amateur Radio Electronics Workbench Software

Arduino | Improvements

The plate cap LED blinks the message in orange
Makergear M2: Spring-Loaded Extruder Feed Gear

2016-10-11

Machine Shop

Improvements | M2

The spring allows the flexible arm to move as the filament diameter changes
Rewiring a Baofeng Battery Eliminator

2016-10-10

Amateur Radio Electronics Workbench Machine Shop

Improvements

Now KE4ZNU-10 won’t become a lithium fire in the attic stairwell…
Pi Measuring Tape

2016-10-09

Machine Shop Oddities

The prices suggest folks who need Pi Tapes need them /bad/
Too Many Deer, Twice More

2016-10-08

Recumbent Bicycling

Wildlife

All swoll up, as the saying goes