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Rectangular frame being held together by 4 Kreg corner clamps, with me in the background securing the fourth clamp.

My iPad sketch of the bookcase on which I will base my mockup.

Nailing together the bottom frame and vertical support on the mockup with my Kobalt nail gun.

The full-scale mockup placed in the room where the actual bookshelf will go, near the TV console and books currently on the floor.

Finally time to start getting this woodworking bookshelf project off the ground! In this article, I finalize the sketch, build a full-scale mockup, and place it in the room where the final bookcase will go: fromsawtosoftware.com/2024/03/14/b...

Newly opened turkey and cheese containers with "3.14159" written on them in place of today's date.

Happy Pi Day! My wife is fully in the spirit of the holiday when she marked our newly opened cheese and turkey with today's "date" 🤣

Clamps hanging on dowels attached depth-wise to a wall.

Storing clamps + wall space efficiency = impossible? Throwback to a few months ago when I wanted a place to hang my clamps without taking up much of my precious wall space. Every solution I found took up too much wall space, so I made my own 😁 fromsawtosoftware.com/2024/01/09/m...

I wish I could react to posts with more than just a like. Would be far more efficient to react with "😂" instead of needing to write a post to explain my reaction... 😂

Is it this one? PINECIL – Smart Mini Portable Soldering Iron, Small www.amazon.com/dp/B096X6SG1...

I'm an engineer that does both hardware and software 😂

Is there a way I can look it up with a model number or something? Apologies if I missed that info in a thread somewhere.

Interesting! What's the benefit of the Bluetooth? Mine has a display and steady state temperature control, but it's done the old fashioned way with an RLC circuit or similar (I assume), with no processor besides something to display the temperature on the very basic segment display.

I know it's not an answer to your question, but I think having that available would be great! I'm looking forward to learning how to use a sewing machine and making our own clothes with my wife 😊 Would have enjoyed learning it earlier in life, too.

I LOVED when I discovered origami as a kid. We thankfully had about 3 books in the school library and I made almost everything in them 😁 Thinking back, this probably contributed to my maker tendencies. I would have absolutely borrowed one of your kits back then!

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I just installed an air filtration system in my shop. This picture is like me looking into my future...

Love this! We need more places like this. Having makerspaces for a community can really make a difference in someone's path, just like my woodshop class in high school did for me (no makerspaces near me then).

But hey, you'll never have to buy those for anything ever again 😂

Wowwwww. Didn't even know this was a thing! My soldering station just has manual controls with no software (that I know of).

Wonderful work! Looking forward to making furniture like this for our eventual kids 😁

Very difficult to make good bread! Congrats! My wife and I tried once. ONCE. It was... something 😂 Hard as a rock on the outside, gooey on the inside.

Why did I find this so funny 😂

Making Router Table Drawers - Part 1 of 2 Since my last article, I’ve ordered a few more tools for the upcoming console bookshelf project. Guess I’ll just wait around while they are shipped out…

Before starting on the bookshelves, waiting on some more woodworking safety equipment to come in that I ordered from Rockler.

In the meantime, I'm using this time to make some drawers for my router table. Part 1 of the blog article:

Pixel (me) standing in the aisle of a lumberyard inspecting 10 foot tall wood with his face obscured, while light shines bright from the ceiling.

I'm readying everything for the bookshelves I'm about to build for my wife 👩🏻 Follow to see all my woodworking mistakes 😉

Details on how I planned, decided exactly what to get (with prices), and hauled it all home during my first time buying at a lumberyard: fromsawtosoftware.com/2024/01/25/v...

From Saw to Software The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. This is my quest to build a garage workshop and create wood furniture, home electronics, software, and more… for fun!

Hello! I'm Pixel 👾 and I am a Maker ⚙️

I blog building out my garage workshop, as well as my creative journey with building wood furniture, home electronics, software, and more!

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