What’s Wrong With This Picture?
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…
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Toy Sword and Shield
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…
Building Amazon Product Links with Affiliate Tags
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!
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…
Window Cornices
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″…
Raised Garden
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…
How To Make Perfect Mocha Syrup
It only takes a few minutes and a few simple ingredients to make a mocha syrup that's better than anything you'll find at Starbucks or in the store.
SpoonBot…
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…
Trigonometry Functions with the PICmicro MCU
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…
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