Maxwell Omdal

Iā€™m building new things. Currently curious about maker culture, woodworking, and resource sharing.

Articles


  1. Blog Challenge

    From Bear Blog

    Jan 06 2025
  2. 10 Minute Mini Corkboard Enamel Pin Display

    A quick project between projects

    Jan 05 2025
  3. A Sneak Peak at a Sign

    An Early Preview of a Woodworking Project

    Jan 04 2025
  4. Using Style Transfer and CNC to Produce Printblocks

    A new way to make prints

    Jan 03 2025
  5. Syncing and Backups with Rsync and Borg

    Creating a self-hosted remote backup for data recovery

    Jan 02 2025
  6. My Favorite Things of 2024

    Some Tools and Tech

    Jan 01 2025
  7. New Year's Resolutions

    2024 Recapped and Goals for 2025

    Dec 31 2024
  8. AI For Development

    Thoughts on these changes

    Sep 17 2024
  9. Finished a Workbench

    For Sequoia Fabrica's Workbench

    Jun 15 2024
  10. Boquets to Art at the De Young Museum

    A weekend excursion to see an exhibition

    Jun 12 2024
  11. Refinishing a Chest of Drawers Found on the Street

    You know what they say about one man's trash

    Jun 04 2024
  12. Building a New Workshop in San Francisco

    A Makerspace-Type Space For Learning, Sharing and Doing

    Jun 02 2024
  13. Homemade Laundry Detergent Recipe for Lazy People

    A 3 Ingredient Recipe for Laumdy Detergent

    May 04 2024
  14. This is now available on RSS!

    Adding an RSS feed to my blog

    Apr 22 2024
  15. How to make Beeswax Candles

    My recipe for making beeswax candles

    Dec 11 2023
  16. What Does Apple Watch Do

    Do they really do what we need?

    Nov 11 2023
  17. Principles of Operating a Shared Workshop

    My thoughts from a year helping out at a hackerspace

    Oct 08 2023
  18. The Green Imperative By Victor Papanek

    Book Notes

    May 09 2023
  19. How to capture code snippets from Obsidian and add to Alfred Snippets

    A simple way to flag certain snippets you'd like to see appear in Alfred

    May 07 2023
  20. Writing a Discord bot with Python and aiocron

    A quick example with discord.py's 2.0 framework

    Apr 22 2023
  21. This blog post is automatically published

    Well.. At least it's supposed to be

    Mar 09 2023
  22. Earth šŸŖ to Localhost

    Setting up a NAS with Apple Filing Protocol

    Jan 31 2023
  23. Interesting Blogs and Bloggers

    Just some bloggers I really like

    Dec 27 2022
  24. Thoughts on Hackerspaces

    And some other stuff too

    Dec 21 2022
  25. I'm Counting Goats!

    šŸ

    Dec 21 2022
  26. Deploy Github Pages with Jinja and Github Actions

    Github Pages with Jinja and TailwindCSS

    Jun 14 2022
  27. Migrating from tmux to Kitty

    .txt config files should rule all

    Jun 12 2022
  28. Path Planning

    A* Path Planning

    Sep 15 2020
  29. Particle Simulation

    Particle Simulation

    Aug 15 2020
  30. Fluid Simulation

    Fluid Simulation

    Jul 15 2020
  31. Cloth Simulation

    Cloth Simulation

    Jun 15 2020

Projects


Particle Simulation

Jul 20 ā€” Aug 20

A particle system capable of complex behavior, such as billboarding, streaking, texturing, and more written in Processing

Path Planning Game

Jun 20 ā€” Jul 20

An interactive program demonstrating A* path planning and probabilistic roadmaps. Written in Java with Processing, which is based on OpenGL

AR Physicalizations

Apr 20 ā€” May 21

Using Vuforia AR SDK, building a system for combining biogeochemistry data with physical geospatial models

CPU Raytracer

Jan 20 ā€” Mar 20

A raytracer from scratch written in C++ on up to two cores with multiple samples per pixel

Bucketz

Jun 17 ā€” Aug 17

An iOS game built with Swift and SpriteKit

DineDice

Jan 17 ā€” Feb 17

A randomized local restaurant recommender