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Icicle Stars

Our house has been growing icicles at an alarming rate this year but that doesn’t mean we’ve not put them to good use.

In this issue of TinkerTime I describe how we made these icicle stars. They look really good when the sun glitters on them.

Tinker Time 4 – How to make Icicle Stars

The right earphone in the right ear

Not that this is rocket science, and not that it makes a huge difference, but every now and then when I’m listening to or watching something on my iPod, laptop or Dell Axim, I like to have the right earbud in the right ear and the left earbud in the left one (duh!) Well, it [...]

Welding Cart version 4.0

After buying a new welder, I had to rebuild (for the 4th time) the cart all the stuff sat on! Here’s the original article from the old siteĀ  Welding Cart

Adding a Terabyte drive to the server

Not that this is new anymore, but this was the article that explained how to add a terabyte of storage to the home server – with backup too! Terabyte Storage

Just in time for Easter – a reprint of how to empty eggs

Mascha asked me to empty the contents of 72 Easter eggs for her class to decorate. Here’s an article for using a vacuum pump, a funnel and an old jar to get the job done in short order. This appeared as the original Tinker time 1 article on the old website.

Too many computers

At last count there were about 14 computers in the house. No one wants them – they’re too “old!” Since when is a 2MHz Pentium with 2GB ram and 120GB Hard drive “old?”
I’ll recycle as much as I can – like turning some of them into servers like this one – but some of this [...]

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