by Brian Crawford | Oct 18, 2016 | food, tech
I’m going to wax poetic about our kitchen faucet. Our old faucet failed a week ago (FYI, when faucets fail, they tend to fail in epic fashion). So we needed a new one. While investigating different faucets, we found several that you can touch to turn on and off....
by Brian Crawford | Dec 18, 2015 | tech
I don’t often talk about lightbulbs. But when I do, I do it on this blog. Nearly eight years ago I posted about Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs). At the time, CFLs were relatively new, or at least had only recently become available and were beginning to...
by Brian Crawford | Jun 29, 2015 | tech
I’ve been going through all sorts of kids books about the United States space program for a project I’ve been working on. Did you know that the history of the space race is quite fascinating? I hope mankind will continue learning new things about our place...
by Brian Crawford | Jan 5, 2015 | family, tech
Callum got a Raspberry Pi late last year (just before Christmas – I’m not sure if Santa would have been tech savvy enough to get him one of those). So far it’s been a lot of fun to play with. Computer programming for kids The Raspberry Pi was...
by Brian Crawford | Apr 4, 2013 | tech
So after several months of not blogging, I’ve returned to updating my blog every now and then during the early months of 2013. Why is that? Experiences come and go, but stuff written on a blog can last a long, long time (I won’t say forever, ’cause...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 9, 2010 | tech, videos
prepare to be amazed, my friends. okay, so only slightly underwhelming. this is a traffic light electronics kit I bought in Tennessee and soldered together as soldering practice for the x0xb0x I bought the other week. The x0xb0x is a Roland TB-303 synthesizer replica...
