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Projects May 24, 2026 6 min read

The Month of Small Failures

I thought printing the crane would take a few days.

It took over a month.

maker3d-printingdiylearningfailurecraftsmanship
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Projects May 24 6 min log_004

The Month of Small Failures

I thought printing the crane would take a few days.

It took over a month.

maker3d-printingdiylearningfailurecraftsmanship
Projects May 24 6 min log_003

The Pathfinder

If I couldn’t pull this off, I wasn’t a maker — I was just a guy with a 3D printer and a dream.

That’s …

maker3d-printingdiyproject-journalengineering
Meta May 17 8 min log_002

Initializing tinkerDad()

Every programmer, at some point, sits down in front of a blank screen and writes their very first program. It …

MetaHello world

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