We don’t have any issues with our Child Units™ playing video games. However, the XBOX has a way of making our CU’s oblivious to the rest of the world. This creates all manner of issues, from the do...

This year the youngest Child-Unit did the Cub Scout’s Pinewood derby again. Like last year he designed the car and I helped him with the electronics. The fading LED was done by using a 555 timer. ...

For this year’s Pinewood Derby race I made another remote controlled car for the Outlaw class. Unlike last year, this year I spent a little more time than the few hours before the race designing an...

This past Halloween the youngest child unit™ went as Steve from Minecraft. This was a pretty easy and cheap costume to make. For the head I used the pattern from stevelange.net. The hardest part wa...