7th Guest Microscope Puzzle

The Escape Effect recently did a tribute to the 25th Anniversary for The 7th Guest.  As a result, I broke open the game again and started playing through it with my wife.  We got to the microscope puzzle and I quickly remembered how challenging it was.  I tried...

Converting 2D to 3D

You would think it was simple to extrude a 2D black & white image into 3D space.  I tried a number of avenues.  They all pretty much have two large steps: 1) Provide a vector file like SVG or DXF and 2) Extrude in a 3D. I tried out a number of 3D modeling...

Working with Flora

Flora is the name given to Adafruit’s “wearable” microcontroller.  What it really means is that it has some large holes that can be used for sewing to clothing and such.  Adafruit provides a number of lessons, one of which introduces you to this...

Setting up RetroPie

As an avid Nintendo collector and a person with a recent interest in electronics like Arduino, it made sense to contribute to building a custom Classic NES since they were all sold out this past holiday season.   I want to note a couple written tutorials that...

Styling a Google Map

Google offers a very impressive map service.  Between JS and CSS, styling is usually very straightforward with tools like the Styling Wizard from Google: https://mapstyle.withgoogle.com/ However, some things can fall through the cracks.  Point of the matter –...