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APC UPS Maintenance

September 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Ever have a beeping in your office and can’t find the source? We had this happen the other day and it drove us a little crazy. The beeping wasn’t very loud, [...]

Glow-In-The-Dark Mushrooms

June 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

A reader dropped us a note after reading our article on fluorescence rocks and suggested we check out the bioluminescence offerings at GlowMushroom.com. It turned out to [...]

Starlight Instruments – FeatherTouch

June 15, 2015 // 2 Comments

Six years ago we installed a Starlight Instrument’s FeatherTouch micro focuser onto a 10″ Meade telescope. A micro focuser is probably one of the most [...]

Windsor Workbench

June 12, 2015 // 1 Comment

We’ve been looking for a workbench with a style that would be suitable for our upstairs office. We plan on doing some detail work and don’t want to do it next [...]

Otter Box Alpha Glass

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

In order to support the new Apple Watch, we were forced to upgrade our iPhones from a 4S to something newer. Our choice was the iPhone 6 Plus. We went with the 6 Plus [...]

Tensegrity Icosahedron

May 18, 2015 // 1 Comment

I realized recently that a lot of the things Gleason Sensei has been talking about in his Aikido classes (dynamic tension, pulling silk, stretching the fascia, etc) [...]

Apple Watch: iPhone Camera Integration

May 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

We knew that Apple Watch could display what the iPhone sees and that we could use it to trigger the iPhone camera, but we hadn’t played with that combo until last [...]

Apple Watch : DIY Charging Dock / Stand

April 30, 2015 // 1 Comment

The high-end Apple Watch comes with a handsome case that doubles as a holder for the induction charging puck. Since we got the “Average Joe” version of Apple [...]

Starting seeds collected from pods

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

A few years ago we began collecting pods out of the flowers in the RainyDayGarden in the hope that some of them would germinate. The experiment was fairly successful, [...]

Sprouting carrot tops

March 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

Yes…some of us thought the RainyDayGarden folks were a bit “optimistic” when they said they could start some carrot plants just from the tops. [...]
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