Here’s a great little online app that will test how good you are at “eyeballing” different measurements. Drag a point or line around to make simple geometric figures. After eyeballing seven different ones three times each, you’ll get a score…
A local church is building an addition. They put up the fence and signs, then proceeded to plow down all the trees inside of the fence. Hmm…
I came home today and my son had created a suit of armor and a sword out of cardboard and paper bags. But his sword was badly damaged — dented and bent — by the kid down the street who…
Amazon’s affiliate program can be big business, and many web sites rely solely on Amazon affiliate program referral frees for their income. It’s a good business model for Amazon.com because it helps drive traffic and sales to their site, and…
Welcome to theFrankes.com. This blog has been around for decades now, and I do have a full-time job and family, so please be patient as I get it back up to modern standards. It’s a long, slow process that competes…
Just call me Martha Stewart. 🙂 I finally got around to making three simple fabric-covered window cornices for our reading room, using all scrap wood and about 1.5 yards of fabric that my wife picked out for about $12. 1/4″…
I finally put the last of the mulch down on the raised garden I built for my wife. The darker/moister mulch is what I just put down. Here’s the view from the back — it shows how the wall disappears…
When we first moved out to NC, we lived in a small apartment with no room for a shop. I did manage to get some wood into this project, though. It was the first version of what turned out to…
This is how I chose to solve the problem of making trig calculations with the PICmicro MCU. Note that this does not use the CORDIC method because I imagine that would hog too much valuable computing time. This solution probably…