Author: Steven Anker

Kitchen Table

We’ve bought new chairs and because of that, we needed a bigger kitchen table. Currently a solid table top with a steel x-shape base is still fashionable in The Netherlands. But I do not...

More masks

Just a few pictures of some additional masks I’ve made. I’ve made them this year for my sons to wear during carnaval. I used the same approach as the previous mask, by first making...

Using Plotters with Yew

The Rust plotting crate Plotters provides a WASM backend through the crate plotters-canvas. Does this allow you to create plots in your Yew web app? Yes, it does. But you need the help of...

Ventilation

Like many people here in The Netherlands, I keep my network stuff in the utility closet. This closet is the entry point of water, gas and electricity in the house and contains all the...

Philishave charging cradle

A few months ago, part of the charging cradle of my shaver broke. Since then charging my shaver requires carefully placing everything such that it charges. As expected no replacement was available to order....

Kungfu bench

I was recently asked by someone if I could make a ” kungfu bench”. It is a simple traditional bench famously used by Jacky Chan in many of his movies as defensive weapon. Benches...

Workshop update

This year no holidays planned because of covid-19. So this is a good opportunity to update my workshop (aka my garage). Apart from woodworking, developing software and programming I also like to read and...

Fortnite Drift Mask

My youngest son decided to go as Drift from Fortnite for carnaval this year. As always it started out relatively simple. Get some clothes, order a latex mask online and done. The result was...