Projects

8ft x 8ft x 8ft barn-style playhouse with loft, windows, and vinyl siding

Drying rack for cloth diapers, made of PVC and designed to sit on top of your dryer

Lofted bed that looks like a clubhouse. Made with only simple tools and techniques.

Custom wooden playset designed for kids ages 3 and up. Includes a crows nest and features platforms rather than steps for climbing.

Dollhouse-themed bed I built from purchased plans. Includes a loft and built-in bookshelves and stuffed animal storage.

Cub scout pinewood derby cars from when my kids were very young

Repairing and upgrading a motorized ride-on plastic tractor, using bent PVC made into a subframe.

Water gun made with PVC and a 2-liter bottle, pressurized by a garden hose and quick-connect coupling. The video was featured on the Science Channel.

A set of rules and materials to play a real-life version of "Among Us", the multiplayer mobile game in which you perform tasks and determine who is your crewmate and who is an imposter.

An attempt at making the world's longest pinewood derby track. I didn't help build it, but ran a car with a camera down it.

A space-efficient high capacity rack for holding multiple kayaks standing on edge, like on a roof-top stacker

A kayak rack I designed to gently cradle boats on nylon straps. Includes a template for making the plywood supports.

Custom designed kayak trailer, capable of holding 16 kayaks, built on a 5x8 utility trailer

Home-built long wheelbase recumbent bike, Inspired by the Tour Easy production model.

A quick and easy way of transporting bicycles in the bed of a truck without drilling or clamping on the truck itself

A grungy 4-wheeled 2-seat pedal vehicle we made in the late 90s

Kludged together front-wheel-drive recumbent bicycle made from two donor bikes

Collapsible standing-height cutting table for sewing

Dust collection system using a shop vac and a device to separate out chips and sawdust. Adapted from someone else's design.

Create your own QR code labels for boxes in storage, and view the contents using Dropbox.

Repurposing an old tool case to make a soldering station portable

Very basic wall-mounted rack for holding power tool chargers and batteries

I made a portable game table for the FLL team. This is a nice and compact cart for moving the table between the meeting space and the car.

FIRST Lego League resources, competition videos, EV3 experiments

3D printed solutions for sorting Lego Technic parts.

Plans for building a small Lego trophy, great for FIRST Lego League team members

Pinewood derby car powered by an electric ducted fan unit and li-po battery

Modern parts list for building the classic FT Flyer RC plane.

How to set up the FT Aura 5 flight controller board to work with a FlySky FS-IA6B receiver. The Aura 5 provides stabilization for RC planes.

I attached an 808 keychain camera to a model rocket and launched it

My current favorite recording projects with friends and family.

Lots more music - pop, rock, jazz, and even some barbershop.

A simple device for determining the relative capacity of rechargeable AA batteries. Find out what batteries you can rely on.

Modifying a popup camper RV bunk end 12V light to add a nightlight feature.

Measuring the electricity consumed by common household objects using a Kill-a-watt meter

Testing capacity of commonly available (well, in 2007) AA Nickle Metal Hydride batteries.

Repurposing an old tool case to make a soldering station portable

The closest I've been to fame. I tied my self-propelled mower to a post, and the video went viral, getting on TV and in a book.

Stop motion animation made in the modern era, using digital cameras and smartphones

Time-lapse videos and experiments taken with GoPro and Android phone

Stop Motion Animation Transformers Dance Video Transformers Battle Video Transformers Battle Video 2 Transformers Movie – Thorns Edition Cats Tang after surgery

Before the days of digital cameras and smartphones, my friends and I made stop motion animation videos with an old RCA VHS camcorder.