July 19, 2019
Bigfoot in Hong Kong
Nike doesn't sell very many non-hideous sneakers in [CURRENT YEAR], so I caved and got a "recrafted" version of a 1992 sneaker (the Air Skylon) and a reissued →
Category: HerpDerp
July 10, 2019
A quarter as much at just shy of double the price: Hong Kong retail in a nutshell
USA
HK
1000g
250g
$32.99
$56.50
Purchasing anything aside from the →
May 1, 2019
Chrome Vanadium Chinesium: Finest quality. Superior workmanship.
A recent haphazard domestic DIY escapade furnished me with the above photo: replacing the shredded sisal twine and fabric on our cats' scratching posts. →
March 26, 2019
The scourge of planned obsolescence, in Magic 8-Balls
There are innumerable how-to videos and static, step-by-step online guides to replenishing the water inside the fluid reservoir of a Magic 8-Ball, but →
March 21, 2019
And idle sat the cordless rotary multitool in its case a few feet away
I would have saved some time and gotten a much cleaner result if, to begin with, I had used my Bocsh Dremel-alike, but the result was acceptable.
Tonight, →
March 19, 2019
How heat-shrink tubing reacts when exposed to the arc of an electric-arc lighter
LEFT: tubing shrunk by exposure to a flame. RIGHT: tubing shrunk via placement very near the arc of an electric-arc lighter.
If you've ever wondered →
February 1, 2019
Knocked together several different cheap Chinese PCB-plus-through-hole-parts electronics kits
Knocked together several different cheap Chinese PCB-plus-through-hole-parts electronics kits as a means of trying out a couple of different soldering →
December 12, 2018
赠品 is Simplified Chinese for free gift + GOOP really has CHAINGED!
赠品 is Simplified Chinese for free gift. In Traditional Chinese, it's 贈品.
The same reasoning that comes into play in trying to reason out →
November 29, 2018
Butchering a BMO
Forgive me, BMO!
Tonight, I extracted an MTR Octopus card NFC thingamajig and implanted it in a purchased-for-this-purpose hollow BMO figure from, →
November 18, 2018
Better late than never: carbide-tipped hole saws, M35 HSS-Co step drills, and deburrer
My second batch of Bosch TM5 carbide-tipped hole saws, with a rubber band holding the packaging on the largest one closed after I opened it, three no-brand-but-putatively-M35-grade →
October 11, 2018
Today’s pre-soldering photo
The seller included the pin headers but yours truly had to stump up the 2P screw terminals.
Today's recreational soldering: some breakouts for Si4599 →
October 5, 2018
And just a few decades later…
Two lemon batteries, connected in series, can (just barely) power a red LED.
Making a lemon battery was one of the sciencey activities I encountered →