A man buys a quarry and turns it into a Japanese garden… Some people read a Bangor Daily...
Maine, Part 1 – Chairmaking
The Backstory Sometime shortly after I was diagnosed with glioblastoma, I also found out that a spot had...

Bicycle Framebuilding: Jig Design
Update (08/06/2109): Engineering Drawings! Wow – someone has actually read this post and requested drawings! This seems only...
Round 1: Chemo 1, Aaron 0
Apologies if it’s been a little quiet around here lately. The R’s and I took a little time...

Radiation Day 30 – I’m finished!
The last beam room music rundown: Your last beam room music rundown. Technically, there was a song playing...
Radiation Day 28 – Soul Music and 3D Modeling
Today’s beam room music rundown: “Upside Down,” Jeffrey David Goldford – This was a new song for me....
Radiation Day 18 – Asking for what I need
Beam room music rundown: Some country song I couldn’t make out because the radio was too quiet and...

Digital Joinery, Part 2 – The Board Corner Joint
In the post, Digital Joinery Design Automation, I introduced a project I’m working on to implement all 50...

Digital Joinery, Part 1 – “Frame Corner Joint”
In my last post, “Digital Joinery Design Automation,” I wrote about a project I planned to undertake to...
Digital Joinery Design Automation
In past posts, I’ve written a little bit about my experience taking a 12-week intensive course in furniture...
The role of “craftsmanship” in engineering education
For a while now, I’ve been thinking a lot about craft as it relates to engineering education. “What...
Craft and computers
You start by sketching, then you do a drawing, then you make a model, and then you go...
The antithesis of multitasking
I’ve just completed my first week of the 12-week furniture intensive course at the Center for Furniture Craftsmanship...
Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video – Part II
In Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video Part I, I walked through setting up a Raspberry Pi with a camera and...

Cloud-enabled Time-Lapse Video – Part I
A major theme of the library reinvention project is documentation. Documentation can serve many critical purposes including storytelling,...