Maxwell Omdal

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

Articles


  1. Chest of Drawers 2

    Refinishing another chest of drawers left on the street in the neighborhood

    Feb 17 2025
  2. I Made a Sign

    Jan 29 2025
  3. Oh Blogging, What a Bother!

    Mid-blog crisis

    Jan 29 2025
  4. Blog Challenge

    From Bear Blog

    Jan 06 2025
  5. 10 Minute Mini Corkboard Enamel Pin Display

    A quick project between projects

    Jan 05 2025
  6. A Sneak Peak at a Sign

    An Early Preview of a Woodworking Project

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

    A new way to make prints

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

    Creating a self-hosted remote backup for data recovery

    Jan 02 2025
  9. My Favorite Things of 2024

    Some Tools and Tech

    Jan 01 2025
  10. New Year's Resolutions

    2024 Recapped and Goals for 2025

    Dec 31 2024
  11. AI For Development

    Thoughts on these changes

    Sep 17 2024
  12. Finished a Workbench

    For Sequoia Fabrica's Workbench

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

    A weekend excursion to see an exhibition

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

    You know what they say about one man's trash

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

    A Makerspace-Type Space For Learning, Sharing and Doing

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

    A 3 Ingredient Recipe for Laumdy Detergent

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

    Adding an RSS feed to my blog

    Apr 22 2024
  18. How to make Beeswax Candles

    My recipe for making beeswax candles

    Dec 11 2023
  19. What Does Apple Watch Do

    Do they really do what we need?

    Nov 11 2023
  20. Principles of Operating a Shared Workshop

    My thoughts from a year helping out at a hackerspace

    Oct 08 2023
  21. The Green Imperative By Victor Papanek

    Book Notes

    May 09 2023
  22. 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
  23. Writing a Discord bot with Python and aiocron

    A quick example with discord.py's 2.0 framework

    Apr 22 2023
  24. This blog post is automatically published

    Well.. At least it's supposed to be

    Mar 09 2023
  25. Earth šŸŖ to Localhost

    Setting up a NAS with Apple Filing Protocol

    Jan 31 2023
  26. Interesting Blogs and Bloggers

    Just some bloggers I really like

    Dec 27 2022
  27. I'm Counting Goats!

    šŸ

    Dec 21 2022
  28. Thoughts on Hackerspaces

    And some other stuff too

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

    Github Pages with Jinja and TailwindCSS

    Jun 14 2022
  30. Migrating from tmux to Kitty

    .txt config files should rule all

    Jun 12 2022
  31. Path Planning

    A* Path Planning

    Sep 15 2020
  32. Particle Simulation

    Particle Simulation

    Aug 15 2020
  33. Fluid Simulation

    Fluid Simulation

    Jul 15 2020
  34. 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