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

Bicycle-Hostile Design: Raymond Avenue

2016-08-26

Photography & Images Recumbent Bicycling

Rants | Tax Dollars Asleep

Less than half a second reaction time
Random LED Dots: Entropy Library for Moah Speed with Less Gimcrackery

2016-08-25

Electronics Workbench Software

Arduino | Improvements

Minus those techie transistors / resistors / op amps, it will look like Just Another Arduino Project
Kenmore Progressive Vacuum Tool Adapters: First Failure

2016-08-24

Machine Shop Software

CNC | Improvements | M2 | Repairs

There’s obviously a stress concentration on that section
Kenmore Model 158: Needle Lights, Now With Moah LEDs

2016-08-23

Electronics Workbench Machine Shop

Improvements | Sewing

Push the power button to turn on the machine and the LEDs pop on
Vacuum Tube LEDs: 500 W Frosted Incandescent Bulb

2016-08-22

Electronics Workbench

Arduino | Improvements

The 5050 SMD LED isn’t really a point source and must fight its way through the frosting
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

2016-08-21

Oddities Photography & Images

Rants | Wildlife

We would be dog people to want that level of launch-on-warning, but we’re not
Glass Bead Retroreflection

2016-08-20

Photography & Images Recumbent Bicycling

Scattered beads light up the pavement’s cracks and crevices