First of all … I’m a rich old guy.
Not really “That Rich”, but …
I can buy a popsicle, any time I want … and
Get any toys I want.
So the things in my room include a set of neat toys:

Several Sterling Engines,
A Mendocino Solar Engine,
A Memory Wire spinner,
A nice drone,
My computer, internet, and maker robot (Snapmaker),
The robot does 3D printing, Laser Cutting / Etching, and Routing,
We get along really well, since we know each other better now.
All in all, I have it All…at least All that I want.
The use and control of this stuff is a challenge …
I had to learn about different file formats ,
And how to design / modify / include / … things (Thingiverse & TinkerCAD)
And much – much more. (Blender & …).
Take it easy and slow – every mistake is learning – yea, yea, yea (2 or more +’s = a -)
Next; I need to tell you that I have nothing but, time to play around …
What follows is a tribute to “open design”, geeks sharing and building upon the efforts of others …

The lower shelf contains a lot:
A globe showing the Yearly path of the Sun
A animated early version of “VisiTrig”
A Gravity Map of Sun-Planet
A Cube of Binary Counting Trick, described elsewhere
A “Production Box” of my design – I’m proud of it
A Lithographic of Lovely Wife and me
The upper shelf also contains a lot:
Normal Distribution in the front
Key to the Universe with “do nothing” spinners
Final version of VisiTrig – I’m proud of it
A earth globe with exaggerated mountains
A earth globe with dried-up oceans
A ChatGPT logo

The Lower shelf contains a lot:
This is dedicated to Quantum Physics & Albert Einstein
Which/Who introduced us to a micro world containing Energy and Mass …
A small (young?) bust of Albert – maybe someone you know
Schrodinger’s cat mind flip
2 slit experiment interference / reinforcement

The Upper shelf contains very little:
Sample gifts for traveling-ice-breakers
A complicated tent design
A Oaxacan design rabbit, peacefully eating
A hanging GPS constellation model

The next Lower shelf is a celebration of life:
A group of little people enjoying each other
A stretching Oaxacan deer & porcupine
A etching of our Garnet Lake house
A 3D map of Avalanche Pass NY – water divide
Rope trick handouts
Next to a Saturn V representation showing J-2 engine locations
The Upper shelf is our tribute to Fox who passed in 2025
More Oaxacan art with a new dog pissing on Fox’s monument
A shoutout for the now extinct Monarch butterfly
Lots of cemetery scenery
Onward to a full lower shelf which honors gears and 1st phase Industrial Age

Cheech and Chong drug mobile with planetary gear wheels,
Clitoral hood ornament and exhaust that soothes everyone
A prized Merle photo of a rope trick for Indian guides

The middle shelf represents Space concerns:
Models of Earth, Moon with astronaut, Venus and Mars
The Top shelf is full of boxes:
A year at the lake clock
Wheels representing Binary, Octal, Decimal, and Hexadecimal counting
An empty (?) box

The Hex window is full of local critter representations:
Another Merle photo of the rope trick performed for Peruvian kids

A strange array of prints – protein models, Satellite views, space stuff
Notice the Zimmerman cartoons
More stuff …

Leave a Reply