2025-02-01
A few pictures from February 1 2025
Hello
My name is Jezra. I am a broadband advocate, shepherd, code hacker, piper, photographer, left handed crafter of things, living in rural foothills of the Sierra, and this site is how I share some of that with you. enjoy :)
2025-01-29
The only way to improve my rural cell signal is with a signal booster; and a signal booster should be mounted on the roof. A movable/adjustable roof ridge mount was needed, so one was built using materials at hand.
2024-09-03
The process I used for making binary dice was not the best, and I improved the process
2024-01-14
pictures and the tale of building my Drumbra: a left-handed, diatonic scaled, dombra tuned string instrument, with a sheep skin drum body
2024-01-09
building a Brandubh board and game and pieces out of wood
2023-12-20
While making a bag for a board game, I thought it would be more portable if the board and bag were one piece
2023-09-18
While enjoying the beauty of Blue Lake, I lamented the lack of a vessel to paddle across the lake, so I designed and built such a vessel
2023-09-13
The Royal Game of Ur was introduced to me, and I needed a nice wooden game board on which to play.
2023-02-19
There was scrap wood enough to make a dombra...
2023-02-03
There was a desire for a ger that would actually be portable; and with some salvaged lumber, one was built
2023-01-08
The scrap pile was getting large, and there was a need for a birdhouse. 2 birds, one stone
2022-10-09
What would a 4 string instument, with 1 melody string and 3 drone strings, tuned in the fashion of the Great Highland Bagpipes sound like? I decided to find out.
2022-09-06
Ike's Quarter Café closed, and I have nowhere to get a blackened catfish po' boy sandwich. Thus it was necessary to raise catfish.
2022-08-04
After my van died, the secondary battery and inverter needed a new home; so the components went into a pyramid
2022-04-10
building a pyramid dog house from a single sheet of rigid insulation
2022-03-17
A non-penetrating ridge mount was needed for Starlink, and this is how it came together
2022-02-01
Imbolc happened, and this is some of what I did
2022-01-07
How I wasted 20 feet of 2x4 lumber making a chair I don't like
2021-07-29
There is still wood in the lumber pile, and I found a nice chair design, so another chair was crafted.
2021-07-28
The woodpile needed to be reduced, so a chair was built.
2020-09-17
T-Mobile upgraded their coverage map for my area, so I signed up for their Test Drive again.
2020-09-07
build a wooden drum? don't mind if I do!
2020-08-07
During the construction of the sailing canoe, 2 paddles were also crafted. This is their tale
2020-07-24
A photographic tale of adding a sail, rudder, and leeboard to my homemade outrigger canoe
2020-06-30
boat fever struck, so an outrigger canoe was built. Here is how it happened...
2020-05-13
Pictures and yammering about crafting a banjyre: a mix of a banjo and a lyre
2020-03-28
My food security would increase if I could catch frogs and catfish; so a trap was build, and it went something like this..
2020-03-22
It started with a bad design for a bell; fortunately the design could be changed
2020-03-17
The professionals need the good face masks more than I do; but I'd still like a mask. Here is what I came up with.
Some blathering about building an Ember app for the Philips Hue API and needing custom UI elements.
2020-03-01
In the process of making a deer skin drum, a smaller drum was also made
2020-02-20
There was a need for yet another API controlled stream player, so one was created.
2020-02-01
Imbolc happened, and some jibber-jabber about chickens
2020-01-21
The computer controlling the chicken coop door was being problematic and needed an upgrade.
2020-01-07
There was a desire to toot bagpipe tunes on panpipes, so it was necessary to build a 9 note set of pipes
a visual odyssey of rigging a canoe for sailing
2019-11-23
There was a problem with the seats in my van, and this is how the issue was resolved
2019-11-07
A brass bell has found it's home, this is how that came about.
2019-11-04
A cover was needed for a left-handed bagpipe, so one was created
2019-10-28
There was a need for a solar powered battery backup, and this is how it came about
2019-09-28
Jezra wanted to listen to KVMR, so a bluetooth speaker thing was built
Jezra tries T-Mobile's 'Test Drive' and it was laughably horrid
2019-09-05
making brass bell number 2
2019-08-24
jezra makes a bell of brass
2019-07-05
making bells from the copper scraps of the Carnyx
2019-03-16
A river otter came by for a visit, and posed as I took some pictures
2019-03-01
a fever of 'carnyx' was satiated by making a copper carnyx
2019-02-13
My application launcher stopped working, so I wrote this one :)
2019-02-06
How to flash the Purism devkit without the asinine python script
2019-02-01
a Picture from Imbolc
2018-04-05
Kaylee needed a coat, now she has one :)
2018-03-09
It was time to build a kiwi trellis, and this is how it happened.
2018-03-08
A mobile office isn't very useful if I can't keep my laptop charged.
2018-03-02
During a lull in the Storm, I snapped a few pics of the lawn mowers
2018-01-15
Inspiration hit and it was necesary to sew a cover for my bagpipe practice goose. Here are some pics.
I built a computer to control my coffee maker, and here are some pictures of the process.
2017-11-25
Dawdles will kick you if you don't give her some scratches
2017-11-05
Today was hella sweet, and I recorded Rains of Castamere on the GHB
2017-09-17
It was a good day to make a flag pole, and I took some pictures of the build.
2017-08-19
A few pics to show the current state of the Aqua thingy
2017-08-09
Pics from the initial build of my network connected, computer controlled aquaculture pool.
2017-08-01
On this Lunasa, I celebrated with a harvest and a few pictures.
2017-06-18
The code created to control the Annoyatron
2017-06-04
Images and description of the hardware setup of the Annoyatron; a solar powered, network attached, Linux device designed simply to annoy me.
2017-06-02
a few pictures of the bioluminescent bug I just found.
2017-05-23
When your trebuchet is falling apart, take off some counterweight and huck a burning log
2017-05-04
Some pictures of the buzzard gathering on Beltaine
2017-04-28
Some pictures of wood ducks
2017-04-07
A few clicks of the visiting family
2017-04-04
Testing the upgraded wheel supports on the trebuchet. 150lb counterweight.
2017-04-02
Faced with the impending ownership of a hearth, I decided to make a sweet hearth broom
Finding the answer to an age old question... for Science!
2017-02-25
How the Emergency Black Sabbath button was put back in action.
2017-02-20
a computer died, so the hard drive was moved to another computer... how boring is that? :)
2017-02-19
Yea, I changed the patch on my jacket
2017-02-03
examples of the code running on Phonos, one of my speech recognition devices
2017-02-01
Pictures from Imbolc 2017
stuffing a CHIP into a phone and wiring it up so it can do stuff
2017-01-02
the build of a network connected light thingy with some stuff
2016-12-17
Stuffing an amplifier, C.H.I.P., and speaker into a good looking toaster for audio fun!
2016-12-14
Rarely am I outside during Sunrise, but having a puppy has changed things. Here are some morning shots taken while letting Kaylee 'get shwifty
2016-12-07
fixing' a broken coffee cup
2016-11-29
it's a good evening to just hang loose
2016-11-21
2016-11-09
compiling a static site and styling some code
2016-11-05
some samples of audio that are now part of a motion-activated talking toaster
2016-11-04
What happens if? That is a question that humans have been asking since the dawn of humanity. What happens if I do this? What happens if I do that? ... and the next thing you know, we have somewhat controlled fire, split the fucking atom, and mastered the art of converting sugar into alcohol. Today, I asked 'What happens if?
2016-11-03
video of Wolf Creek
2016-11-03
this is a post about how I created this post.
2016-10-31
It is Halloween :)