how to be very afraid
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Tate Shannon
how to make the world's worst table saw sled (the hard way)
Continuing my Shopsmith saga from an earlier post, today I made what might be the world's worst table saw sled. Right now, I'm going to show you how I did it!
an introduction to fear
In my experience, human beings are hardwired to fear; but that was incompatible with my understanding of Jesus' instructions not to fear. This led me to read from Luke 12, a passage where Jesus tells us both to fear and to not fear in the same discourse.
i spent an entire day making an ugly phone stand using power tools
o make a long story short: I want to make a desk for my new apartment in Minneapolis. I want to make it myself and I want it to be huge. It will be an 8' x 4' behemoth with storage space and an internal skeleton make of 2" x 6" lumber.
sometimes i think loudly
Sometimes I spend entire days or weeks working on a project, but once I'm finished the only place it lives on is in my own memories. This is a shame! Rather than let it die, I want to preserve and share it with others who may find it useful or inspiring.
the true cost of using a makerspace (how to make decisions like an engineer)
I'll use a trick I learned in engineering school to pick the best one: it's called a "ranked scoring matrix" because it uses a spreadsheet table (a matrix) to help give each choice a score based on how they compare to the other choices.
best 6 makerspaces in minneapolis - based on website design alone
This post could equally be called, "How to find anything online" or "How to find a makerspace in a city you've never seen."
Here, I'll take you through the process I used to find the optimal space for me, then I'll give you an update in a later post to tell you whether I was right.
why i started a blog after a year without social media (during the pandemic)
Growing up, I found that one of the best things about a small town is that everyone cares what you're doing with your life. In fact, my whole town rightfully feels that they share in the successes and challenges I experience every day because they all contributed so much to raising me.