So my thought was to use the Christmas break as an opportunity to catch up on some projects. One of these is to build some sort of home network monitor what would let me anticipate when the printer is down or when the cat has chewed through the power...

I have been working to bring SpaceRocks back to life. My latest version (Dec 2021), for the Oculus Quest 2 and built with Unity, can be found here: https://paynecentral.com/files/SpaceRocksVR.apk (42MB) Here is a link to my original SpaceRocks demo built back in 1997 when I was working for Sense8....

The pond is done. Let the tranquility begin. There are a few odds and ends to finish up. At least one more bucket of rocks should be cleaned. And I need to find some parts for the hammock (not sure where they went during winterization…but what I did find...

More pebble cleaning today. After about 5 hours of that, I decided to see how much new stones would cost at Home Depot. When I realized it was only $4/bag, I made a trip. I will probably clean one more bin of old stones (good exercise) and head out...

While I am mid-project, I figured I would attempt to document my efforts to rebuild/restore the koi pond in our yard. Today, I spent a lot of time cleaning pebbles. I did some googling and came across this video: https://youtu.be/flwWZ1qmKxA that suggested screening the stones with “hardware cloth”. To...

I have been tying to find a way to manage our ever increasing collection of photos and videos. When I was the primary photographer, I had a pretty streamlined process that involved copying photos to my laptop, sorting them with Picasa and Polyview. These photos were moved into folders...

So Josh sent me an email this week pointing to a YouTube “unboxing” video of a Laser FX. For those of you who don’t know, Josh and I brought the Laser FX to market back in the late 1980’s. Josh was the inventor (he also gave credit to some...

It’s so cool that I can actually develop apps for my new Oculus Quest 2. It took a while to find the correct set up instructions (the SDKs, plugins and Unity user interface are a constantly moving target), but these instructions from XRTerra were spot on! The app isn’t...

After playing with a number of monitoring tools to keep track of the various sites and devices around the house, since none of them did what I envisioned, I decided to try to take a stab at building my own app. I thought about doing it as a mobile...

I was thinking I would spend yesterday setting up a Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server for the boys, but William decided to have a meltdown over swim team practice and lost access to electronics for the weekend. So I put that project on a back burner and instead tackled some...