His Lego marble machine is cute (thanks usr/bin/girl), but this guy is a real hobby geek. Check out his experiments building a megapixel digital camera from a flatbed scanner, or his homemade pipe organ, or his homemade wooden joystick, or his homemade 1-pin dot matrix printer, or his homemade Commodore 64 drum scanner.
This is BrainLog, a blog by Dan Sanderson. Older entries, from October 1999 through September 2010, are preserved for posterity, but are no longer maintained. See the front page and newer entries.
September 20, 2000