Category Archives: Projects

Propane Burner

Posted on 2017-02-14 by Nigel VH

While charcoal and a blower works OK for the aluminum melting projects I’ve been doing, I was getting frustrated with the mess, hassle, and cost of that setup. The charcoal created ashes that sometimes got into the aluminum and needed … Continue reading →

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Fire Piston

Posted on 2017-02-14 by Nigel VH

I’ve really been enjoying watching Clickspring’s videos recently, and it encouraged me to make one of his projects as a christmas gift for my father. As someone who’s into the outdoors, I thought a fire piston would be the perfect … Continue reading →

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Generator Box

Posted on 2017-02-14 by Nigel VH

A little while ago I picked up a generator for use in power outages to keep things like the fridge and computer equipment going in the case of an outage that’s lasting more than a few hours. While, one of … Continue reading →

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Aluminum Casting Video

Posted on 2016-10-22 by Nigel VH

Recently I had a buddy of mine over to do some casting, and since he had his hands free, he filmed the process in 240FPS slow motion. Check it out! (Apologies for the vertical format video, he’s weird like that.)

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Surface Mount Toaster Oven

Posted on 2016-09-05 by Nigel VH

As part of my continued work on my Homebrew GPSDO, I’ve been working on a new circuit board design to both add new functionality, improve existing functionality, and consolidate a bunch of the parts in the last revision, onto a … Continue reading →

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