Minty Thumb Piano
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on December 2nd, 2009 filed in Heap1 Comment »
Just a quick Post. I have been working on some presents lately and tonight I took a brake to do a little quick tinkering myself with an altoids tin, 4 embroidery needles, a grounding bar and some scrap particle board. I threw together a thumb piano. It is pretty fun I need to come up with something better than the needles for the tangs but for now here is how it sounds and looks. Hope you enjoy my twanging.
ThumbPiano
Hackintosh
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on November 12th, 2009 filed in Heap2 Comments »
Working on my doodles i started to notice that my computer was having trouble keeping up with some of the vector art I have been working on. I had just read a guide on how to build a Hackintosh Aka a computer that can run OS X not made by mac. So following the guide I set about ordering parts. Once they arrived I spent the better part of the afternoon getting it built and set up. Once I had it up and running I found a neat program called Geek tools that lets you run shell commands on the desktop. The last picture shows what I have it doing. Mainly showing what itunes is playing, what the weather will be like tomorrow, the date, and uptime. There are other things you can do I may get around to eventually. Well if you have any questions shoot them my way.
Trying My Hand At Hand Embroidery
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on November 12th, 2009 filed in Heap2 Comments »
A title like that I must be clever. Well I have recently decided to take up hand embroidery. Like anything one would want to do but had no clue where to start. I turned to the internet and found a pretty awesome site called sublime stiches which had some how to’s. Well after looking over those how to’s I decided to dive in. The following gallery has about a week and a half worth of free time embroidery results enjoy. I should also note all the embroidery are my designs.
New Postcard Desgn
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on November 12th, 2009 filed in DoodlesComment now »
Hey Everyone it has been a while. I have been making a lot of peoples weddings prettier. Also I have been trying to perfect another postcard to go with the hot dogs. I want to put together a package of five to sell on the Etsy. So let me know which one you like better or give me some pointers on how to make them better.
Doodle Catch up post
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on September 28th, 2009 filed in Doodles3 Comments »
Well I have been doing a bit of doodling over the past month. This is really just a post so you can see what I have been doodling lately. I know these are all computer images thats because I have taken to scaning my hand doodles into the computer and making them vector art with Inkscape. This is just in case I ever have so much extra money laying around and I desire to get a billboard made of my doodles. I recently seem to have done a small series of doodles. You can see the doodle that inspired it now and click more if you want to see the rest.
The First dog
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Basil Bucket Update
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on September 15th, 2009 filed in HeapComment now »
So far so good. The basil seems to love it’s bucket with the few rain storms we have had I have not had to add water to the reservoir yet. Set it and forget it. I hope to get another bucket going for carrots soon.
Is sooooo Cute
Trash Garden II: Better trash
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on August 26th, 2009 filed in Heap1 Comment »
Well I have still not finished unpacking all the boxes that I did not label before the big move. On the other hand I have a back yard. For the first time ever I have a yard. On the other hand we are in drought level two here which means no watering by hose or sprinkler except on Saturday nights. With this in mind and the book my big bro got me me for my birthday I decided to make a self watering container.
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Thash Garden
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on May 24th, 2009 filed in HeapComment now »
Well I have been saving up milk jugs for making my pocket lawn 2.0 as well as another project that is in it’s infancy (AKA a thought that passed through my head). The thing is I can only use one side of the gallon milk jugs for vacuum forming as the other sides yield pieces of plastic that are too small to work with. So long story short I was left with five one gallon milk jugs with a hole in one side. That’s when it hit me I could use them as planter boxes.
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Update: 30 days = Fail.
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on May 24th, 2009 filed in RamblingsComment now »
Well I did not make it the 30 days I was trying to with a post a day. As I am sure you noticed. It was because I took an awesome vacation. Now I am back and I am not sure I will be posting every day but I have some awesome stuff in the works so I will be updating with a greater frequency than in the past. So I hope you will continue to monitor my various random projects.
Unexpected road blocks
Posted by Tangerinepiggy on May 7th, 2009 filed in Heap, Ramblings1 Comment »
Well to day was sadly a slight set back. My High power RGB LEDs were sadly just GB LED’s. It took me most of the day to suss out that it was not my power circuit. On the plus side I got Arduino development software installed on my laptop runing under my linux. This took a bit of doing but I a glad to say I got it done. I made a rudimentary program to test my power circuit. So after about 6 hours I ended up being able to pulse my led to prove my circuits functioned correctly. So now I am waiting on possible RMA ticket to get new LEDs. I picked up the parts to make my banjo electric today. To the future.