Summer Plans

Last summer I accomplished very little. I spent most days playing Age of Empires II  and building a tree house, which never got finished because the heat chased us inside; it now suffers from sever water damage. My hope for this summer, is to do a lot more projects. Here is my current list.

Recreate this:

My actual plan is to make a bigger version, possibly with spheres inside of each other.

Put up siding on a hot tub. In the winter, the hot tub at my house is hard to get to heat up. I’m hoping that by adding insulation and siding, the situation will be rectified.

Make a solar charger for my phone. I have the basic circuit design I plan to use as well as access to solar panels (you can harvest them from outdoor lights sold at Wal-Mart for $3). I just need to make some sort of jack and put it all together.

Make a wooden case for my laptop. My laptops plastic case is broken, again. This time around, I’m just going to make a solid case for it and probably hang it on the wall in my room to be used as some sort of controller.

Design an 8-bit processor and make it from vacuum tubes. If I have enough money, I think that I could find this project to be quite entertaining, though I can imagine it will be very time-consuming.

Make a Peltier Cooler. Pretty much a quite, electric cooler that can be used to cool electric parts or a house.

This is my list thus far. If you have any ideas for other projects, leave them in the comments.