Dehydrator

Instead of chips and other salty, unhealthy garbage to snack on, I fell in love with dehydrated fruits and Veggie Straws. They diet well and they’re a much better alternative to Doritos, Ruffles, or Pringles.

So there I was, thinking dehydration would be a fun and interesting hobby to do at home. How wrong I was… Every time this thing comes out, it ends up being an insane amount of work that could very easily turn into a chaotic mess. This batch was ~5 bananas, thinly sliced, soaked in a lemon juice mixture, then carefully and evenly laid out onto the baking trays. The dehydrator was set to 135° and left alone for 12 hours.

12 hours comes and goes and the banana chips are still very gummy. I let it sit for another 12 hours and they’re still gummy. However, now they have the added quality of being permanently stuck to the trays.

This isn’t the first time I’ve used this dehydrator before. It’s been used for apple chips, basil, and beef jerky. Each and every time, they come out subpar at best. I officially declare that dehydrating stuff sucks and it’s not worth putting up with that horseshit. Trader Joe’s has a large bag of banana chips that are perfectly crisp and are only $6.

Living in California also leaves me with the added benefit of not being able to throw this away. Guess who’s not putting up with that either. This guy.

Dehydrator

Keychron Replacement Key

So I recently ordered a Keychron (open-source) keyboard. It’s much better after getting through some initial out-of-box issues, but the sad part is they only included a Mac / Windows key. The problem is that I don’t use Mac or Windows and want nothing to do with either of them. So, obviously designing a Linux based key with a minimalistic looking penguin was necessary. It was going to be printed in the same gray, but with a yellow penguin beak.

Keychron

The problem is that this particularly key I was editing, is for the regular letters and not the slightly larger Windows Key. Keychron has STL files for some of their keys, but they have so many keyboards, there’s seemingly no way they could provide all the source files.

Bummer.

Jelly Star Case

This site is dedicated to things that I have made, built, or random stuff that I think is worth sharing. Not everything turns out well, though. For every successful design, there are 2-3 that don’t quite work out as planned.

Yesterday, I was really excited to make a slim phone case for the tiny Jelly Star phone. It ended up being a fail, but I was really happy with the overall design. The case mimics its larger cousin, the Pixel 4 PacMan case, but is much smaller. The PacMan logos here, however, are the same files used in my neon wall lights.

Unfortunately, the case would need to be much more flexible to be a proper fit. Since TPU can’t be used in the Bambu AMS, nor do I want to put in the effort to do multiple colors, this project looks to be a no-go.

Jelly Star Case