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Evening projects

I was saying when Julia and I did the solar system model that I needed to do more projects that I could take from conception to completion in the course of a single evening.

Here’s some more modest time commitment projects.

Last night, Julia and I conceived and completed a little stop motion animation about a character called Blobby.

I haven’t tried to use sync sound with animation in a while, but I think it turned out pretty good.

On a previous night I decided to turn some of my projection TV optics into an LED lighted viewer.

There’s a little battery pack and switch, and a bunch of LEDs and wiring, all tacked together by hot glue. That hot glue gun might be the best dollar forty-nine I ever spent.

Look! It glows!

And it can make important pictures look even bigger and more important.

And speaking of projection TV optics, the moon is out now, so I can show you some more interesting pictures from my homemade telescope.

mbey: Matthew is a writer and editor living in Austin, TX.
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