https://www.engineersneedart.com Projects both technical and creative (I hope) that others may find interesting. Programming Raspberry Pi https://www.engineersneedart.com/images/engineers_need_art_small.png https://www.engineersneedart.com en-us https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/3dprinting2025/3dprinting2025.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/3dprinting2025/3dprinting2025.html Sat, 17 Jan 2026 12:00:00 GMT It turns out that I didn’t hate 3D printing, I just hated my Ender. Here were my experiments in 3D printing in 2025. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/m2f32025/m2f32025.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/m2f32025/m2f32025.html Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT In the wild, earlier frontier of manned, space exploration, NASA (the National Aeronautics and Space Administration) was flush with ideas for future spacecraft. One of those involved building spacecraft that would land back on Earth like an airplane. I try to recreate this aircraft in balsa. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/orion2025/orion2025.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/orion2025/orion2025.html Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:00 GMT The spacecraft from the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” have always had a special place for me. Here I build a replica from balsa. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/camera/camera.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/camera/camera.html Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:00:00 GMT I’m very much into genealogy. I came to realize that my interest was more specifically as a kind of photograph genealogist. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/almostfired/almostfired.html Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:00:00 GMT Oh yes, I screwed up more than once during my tenure at Apple. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/duane/duane.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/duane/duane.html Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:00:00 GMT A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/offlineadvocate/offlineadvocate.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/offlineadvocate/offlineadvocate.html Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:00 GMT Digital hoarding as a check against the ephemeral nature of the internet ... and maybe some peace of mind. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/movefast/movefast.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/movefast/movefast.html Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside and abandoned. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/commercial/commercial.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/commercial/commercial.html Mon, 09 Sep 2024 12:00:00 GMT Remembering Casady & Greene and the excitement (and closing) of an era of Macintosh software publishing. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/shareware/shareware.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/shareware/shareware.html Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it is 1989. https://www.engineersneedart.com/stereographer/stereographer.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/stereographer/stereographer.html Mon, 05 Aug 2024 12:00:00 GMT Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/quartercabphase1/quartercabphase1.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/quartercabphase1/quartercabphase1.html Wed, 08 May 2024 12:00:00 GMT Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/endsound/endsound.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/endsound/endsound.html Mon, 22 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/dof/dof.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/dof/dof.html Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT Some light Visual Pinball debugging and the world of DOF. New to DOF? Read on. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/petsounds/petsounds.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/petsounds/petsounds.html Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT Teacher's Pet gets new sounds in this post in a series about scripting Visual Pinball tables. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/cutpaste/cutpaste.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/cutpaste/cutpaste.html Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT Sound code is added in this third in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/linting/linting.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/linting/linting.html Mon, 15 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT The second in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/teacherspet/teacherspet.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/teacherspet/teacherspet.html Sat, 13 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/pinhead/pinhead.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/pinhead/pinhead.html Tue, 02 Apr 2024 12:00:00 GMT Discovering virtual pinball, a hobbyist community devoted to it, and building a full-size virtual pinball cabinet. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/printexperiment1/printexperiment1.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/printexperiment1/printexperiment1.html Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:00:00 GMT Trying some unconventional techniques to create a pop-art print of a Cherry Mash candy bar. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/opamphelper/opamphelper.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/opamphelper/opamphelper.html Wed, 8 Nov 2023 12:00:00 GMT A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier. https://www.engineersneedart.com/index.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/index.html Fri, 14 Jul 2023 12:00:00 GMT For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/samestop/samestop.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/samestop/samestop.html Sun, 21 May 2023 12:00:00 GMT Marvelling at the full circle life seems to have taken after retirement. https://www.engineersneedart.com/adam74/adam74.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/adam74/adam74.html Sun, 21 Aug 2022 12:00:00 GMT The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/interview/interview.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/interview/interview.html Fri, 13 May 2022 12:00:00 GMT Recalling my somewhat unusual interview with Apple back in 1995. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/puzzle/puzzle.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/puzzle/puzzle.html Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT Those of us who fiddled while Apple Computer burned. Well, actually some of us put together a big jigsaw puzzle. https://www.engineersneedart.com/mooncraft2000/mooncraft2000.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/mooncraft2000/mooncraft2000.html Mon, 25 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT A web-based game, Mooncraft 2000 is released. https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/dowdy/dowdy.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/blog/dowdy/dowdy.html Sun, 3 Apr 2022 12:00:00 GMT Tom Dowdy was a software engineer at Apple back in 1995 when I was still writing Macintosh games in Lawrence, Kansas. https://www.engineersneedart.com/systemsix/systemsix.html https://www.engineersneedart.com/systemsix/systemsix.html Tue, 15 Mar 2022 12:00:00 GMT SystemSix is a desk calendar project that displays the weather forecast and phase of the moon on an e-ink display.