Welcome to the blog!

First off, let’s answer some basic questions:

• What is this blog about? Coding, Electronics, 3d Printing, Chemistry, and Citizen Science in general.
• Who are you? My name is Jeff. I’m a self taught programmer and engineer.
• What other topics are you interested in? I enjoy gardening, camping, tabletop gaming, and open world games.

Practical Engineering for Impractical Ideas

Other than a clever tongue in cheek phrase, what does this mean? Well for me “Practical Engineering” is all about figuring out how to make something work, without getting bogged down by the technical details any more than required to complete a given task. Now for the fun part, “Impractical Ideas” are all about the silly daydreams all good engineers have. I don’t care if an idea has market potential or will offer significant improvement to an existing solution, this blog is all about attempting to make silly daydreams into a reality without regard for the merits of the idea itself. While I hope that some of the ideas do turn out to be useful for the future, I won’t waste my time evaluating that past if something seems possible to build.

Closing thoughts

I hope I have kept this intro short and sweet, I am sure I will ramble a bit more as time goes on. The next post will be an overview of several of the projects I am currently working on with more detailed write-ups coming in as I work on them.