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About Hello, dear reader. My name is Brian Enigma (@BrianEnigma) and I live in Portland, Oregon. I enjoy interesting technology, a good drink, and a good story. Sometimes I pretend I am a writer or reporter and compose nonfiction text on such subjects here. Sometimes I fall back to posting pictur

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June 2026

  1. Defcon 5’s California Caravan Program/Zine

February 2026

  1. A Declaration of Independence Re-Read

January 2026

  1. Meshtastic and Meshcore in the Pacific Northwest

December 2025

  1. Minimum Viable Arduino Project: Aeropress Timer

February 2025

  1. Political Stickers for 2025
  2. Copying M4A Files to the Tangara
  3. Reviving the Unfiction Forums

January 2025

  1. On Boycotting Meta For A Week
  2. Blocking Meta For A Week
  3. Quick Make: Horizontal Tissue Bracket

December 2024

  1. Using the Internet Without Leaving a Trace: a How-To Guide

August 2024

  1. Lowering Expectations, One Project at a Time
  2. The Mystery of Detective Barbie’s Audio

March 2024

  1. Droid Repair Kit Decal

February 2024

  1. Adafruit QT Py ESP32 + Neokey 1×4
  2. It’s Okay to Abandon Things

September 2023

  1. My Bike Bag Preflight Checklist

July 2023

  1. A Laser-Cut Drawer Organizer
  2. (Re-)Making a Tarot Journal
  3. Drink Tally: Micro Edition
  4. The Drink Tally
  5. Mason Jar Size Cheat Sheet

June 2023

  1. Quick Build: Pill Bottle Organizer
  2. A Quartet of Fantasy Cocktails

April 2023

  1. The Evolution of a Sabacc Chip Rack

February 2023

  1. Sabacc Rule Cheat Sheets
  2. Sabacc Play Mats
  3. Sabacc To Go
  4. My Sabacc Credit Chip Evolution
  5. Our Sabacc Playlist
  6. On Dealing With USB-A-to-C Charge Cables

January 2023

  1. Netninja’s Top Posts of 2022

December 2022

  1. Bonfire Night: Voting Hero or Villain
  2. Bonfire Night: Food Labels
  3. Bonfire Night: Invitations and Door Gate

November 2022

  1. I Have Deleted My Twitter

August 2022

  1. 3D-Printed Droid Bobbleheads
  2. ATEM Mini Pro Covers
  3. Cardboard Prototyping a Laser-Cut Camera Cover
  4. Making a Light-Up QR Code Panel
  5. Using the Adafruit Feather Huzzah With AWS IoT
  6. Playing Telephone with Image AI
  7. Stray Cosplay for my Cats

June 2022

  1. Translating the Written Language in Obi-Wan Kenobi

April 2022

  1. Remaking the Fake VGA Charge Cable
  2. Wear Your TODO List on Your Sleeve
  3. An Easter Egg Hunt With a Meta Puzzle

March 2022

  1. Dark Night: A Weekly Break From Distractions
  2. Wear Your Result on Your Sleeve, errr, Chest
  3. Ukraine Heart Vinyl Sticker

December 2021

  1. Turning a bucket of MP3s into a podcast

October 2021

  1. Sleep With Me (With NFC)

August 2021

  1. Botanical Plaques, Mark 2 & 3
  2. Botanical Plaques, Mark 1
  3. British Chocolates: Part 1

June 2021

  1. Decorative LEGO Cat Shelves

May 2021

  1. Cottage Stationery
  2. An Evening at Dr. Raven’s Manor
  3. Using Star Wars Biomes as a Screensaver

April 2021

  1. On the iPhone Gonzo Divination

October 2020

  1. A Cat Food Calendar
  2. Fixing Oregon’s “I Voted” Stickers
  3. Random Walks in the Wake of Randonautica

June 2020

  1. Black Lives Matter Vinyl Window Decal

May 2020

  1. (Intelligent) Live Video Streaming for Protesting
  2. Counting 61 (or 57) Days of Quarantine

March 2020

  1. Laser-Cutting Cantina Coasters

January 2020

  1. It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this $NOUN

April 2019

  1. Making Travel Games
  2. Laser-Cut Spell Saga Boxes
  3. Experiments With Mineral Water …With Lasers

March 2019

  1. Diving Into the Origins of “Peanut Butter” [Updated]

February 2019

  1. The Award for Best Oscar Party Goes To…
  2. Repairing a Cast-Iron Christmas Tree Stand

January 2019

  1. Locky: The Laser-Cut Tile Construction Set
  2. A Decoder-Ring Keychain
  3. Potions Party Website

December 2018

  1. Dalek/Lander Toothbrush Stand

November 2018

  1. The Inception of the Potions Party

June 2018

  1. Remaking the Disneyland Toy Story Jail
  2. A Laser Cut Index Card Box
  3. IoT Paper Lantern, Milestone One

May 2018

  1. Personalized Policing of Slack for Diversity and Inclusion
  2. Complicating Simple Projects With Lasers

November 2017

  1. Building a Custom Kitchen Timer

August 2017

  1. You are Beautiful, Inside and Out
  2. Open Architecture Security Cameras

July 2017

  1. Living With USB-C
  2. Experiments in Glass Etching

June 2017

  1. Reduced Drinking with a Victorian Design

April 2017

  1. Building Lambda Binaries in the Cloud
  2. Building the AdjectiveNounBot on AWS
  3. I found a different kind of egg on Easter
  4. Keeping a Zelda Task Journal

February 2017

  1. What’s in my [Protest] Bag?

December 2016

  1. Generating a 2016 Word Cloud
  2. Video Rekognizer
  3. NES Sprite Display

November 2016

  1. Charity is the new Patreon
  2. On the Headache of Digital Movie Redemption

September 2016

  1. Social Anxiety, With Buttons and Stickers

August 2016

  1. A puzzling business card

July 2016

  1. Don’t look now, but the 90s are back
  2. A Fire TV in an Apple Household
  3. Designing Game Show Buzzers
  4. Designing Amazon Web Services Playing Cards

June 2016

  1. Building an Unusual Video Game Controller
  2. In the AI wars, Alexa has won.

April 2016

  1. Developing For Alexa
  2. Free Paper Cowboy Hats
  3. Walk to Work Day 2016

February 2016

  1. Amsterdam: Selfies, Aided by a Professional
  2. Amsterdam: The Rijksmuseum
  3. Evil Prank Stickers
  4. Amsterdam: Oude Kerk
  5. Amsterdam: De Poezenboot
  6. Amsterdam Vacation: Arrival
  7. Reading Atari Cartridges with an Arduino
  8. A Disney sabbatical

January 2016

  1. A WiFi Thumb Drive for Travel
  2. A Second Mason Jar of Happiness

November 2015

  1. On custom laptop clings
  2. The Recompiler: a feminist hacker magazine
  3. Classic games on the Apple TV with Provenance
  4. Communing with the devil on an Apple ][
  5. “Paper Towel, Please”
  6. Counting Stairs

October 2015

  1. Unconscious sexism in the workplace
  2. IPFS: The InterPlanetary File System

September 2015

  1. On distraction-free writing with the iPad Air 2
  2. Dear Wired: please don’t assume I am a man, or large

June 2015

  1. A minor Soylent update
  2. An experiment with Soylent

May 2015

  1. Shaving with a Hammam bowl
  2. RetroPie Key Remapping

April 2015

  1. Building a RetroPie console emulator
  2. My work, on display at NAB
  3. “Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves…

March 2015

  1. 30 seconds on the monorail
  2. Music on the ground
  3. College Quidditch
  4. The Tragedy Series, in hardcover
  5. Simulating electric car ownership

February 2015

  1. Passwords are like underpants

January 2015

  1. My quantified fitness
  2. On equality, with a digression into toys
  3. RIP Distraction Mouse
  4. Switch pinout
  5. Rendering a Puzzled Pint seal in Processing
  6. A mason jar of happiness

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