Author: Gary Spetzler
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I Started a Shop Vlog!
I’ve started uploading videos to Patreon talking about what is happening at the shop. It’s an experiment to see if I can keep everyone in the loop in one place. To start I’m going to try to upload a video daily so I can get a lot of practice. I won’t be able to keep Read more
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Ghoul in the Graveyard Automaton
This is the third Halloween themed automata for a series of classes I am teaching in October. This one is called “Ghoul in the Graveyard”. This post is for anyone that bought the kit and just wants to see the assembly process so they can follow along. I hope you find this page helpful – Read more
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Gone Batty Automaton
This is the second Halloween themed automata for a series of classes I am teaching in October. This one is called “Gone Batty”. This post is for anyone that bought the kit and just wants to see the assembly process so they can follow along. The first kit worked so well, I am linking to Read more
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Ghost in the attic automaton
I’ve made a few Halloween themed automata for a series of classes I am teaching in October. “Ghost in the Attic” is the first one in the series. I had a “tester’s workshop” where I had a few people assemble it mostly following the instructions in the kit and what I found is that most Read more
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New Shop Blues
The move is done. All of my equipment and supplies are in the new shop and organized. I am set up to get to work, but something intangible is missing and I feel kind of sad and afraid. I expected to be over the moon at this point. I have 5x the space I had Read more
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Coffin Coin Bank Project
I’ve spent the last month working to refine an idea to make a little coffin coin bank. It started out as a cardboard project that I wanted to make into a YouTube tutorial, but I quickly learned that cardboard is great for large cams and parts, but as they get smaller and smaller they get Read more
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How to make a bird in a nest automaton
The assembly video and plans for this little dancing bird automata are free for you to use. This is my own original design, but as long as you don’t put my logo on your physical version I don’t care if you make and sell them. Please consider letting people know that you got this design Read more
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A letter to myself
Today is the last official day of the original Alphabet Superset challenge. I know this because I received “The 27th letter” in my email today. The final “letter” of the alphabet. It’s a letter I wrote to myself September 3rd of last year to congratulate myself for finishing the challenge. It was a letter that Read more
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Challenge Accepted
I took on a challenge to help me overcome my fear of failure and it’s been the best thing that has ever happened to me. Read more