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A tray for the cochlear implant gear

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:00:00 -0700

I designed an organization tray for my cousin to keep her son's cochlear implant gear together. She was using a wooden box for multiple things and needed a way to keep the important bits together, available, and readily charged.

I modeled and printed a tray to fit inside the box, with places for the charger, Zephyr drying station, and the smaller bits that go with them.

Keeping everything in a predictable place should make it easier for him to charge his gear and keep track of the smaller pieces himself. Being able to take care of your own things matters, especially when you're a kid. I wanted the tray to help with that part of his day.

SuperStation One: a step-by-step Console Mode setup guide

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0700

I've now set up two SuperStation One consoles. Once you've done it, the steps are straightforward. Getting there means piecing together information from several places.

There are plenty of quick start videos, and the documentation exists, but I wanted a simple written walkthrough. Download this. Copy that here. Turn it on. Something you can follow without pausing a video to figure out which file just went where.

Bambu TUI: my print farm in a terminal

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:37:23 -0700

On most days I live in a terminal. Okay, maybe not literally, but I do, literally, always have a terminal open and visible on my screen. Sometimes many terminals, with many tabs, across many screens.

I don't like to have Bambu Studio always open, and often I'm not even on the same machine a job is running on. I wanted a way to view my farm and see the things I cared about most at a glance.

Developing a skill

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:00:00 -0700

You can't enter a tech discussion this year without acknowledging the elephant in the room: AI. The models, tools, interfaces, and interactions have progressed so fast over the last few weeks and months that it's difficult to keep up. What felt like it used to take years now seems to happen between one project and the next.

It's scary for a lot of people. There's a very real concern about where the human element fits into all of this. Nobody wants to be diminished to a "meat proxy," passing information between systems without contributing anything of their own.

Building my own Steam Machine

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 -0700

I liked the idea behind Valve's Steam Machine: a compact gaming PC for the living room, with my Steam library ready to go on the television. A portal to Steam, if you'll allow me one Valve pun.

The finished build, with everything tucked away.

What I hoped for was an affordable way to get that experience. Unfortunately, this is a difficult time to buy PC hardware. Between people building gaming systems, enthusiasts running AI models at home, and the much larger appetite for AI infrastructure, there's a lot of competition for components. Memory and storage have been particularly painful. Valve's launch announcement discusses how component costs affected the Steam Machine's price, too.