Okay... I have already thanked all of you personally, but again let me say that I am very pleased with the response to my announcement of the 2018 100% funding goal, which has gotten FranLab up to 68%...
2018-06-29 14:57:00 +0000 UTC
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So chuck-full of goodness you'll want to save room for seconds! Thanks everyone for sharing your cool junk with us on this new amazing Viewer Mail #7!
2018-06-22 04:12:50 +0000 UTC
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Re-edited and enhanced - An expanded excerpt from Viewer Mail #7 about "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Home Computers" with Steve Allen and Jayne Meadows from 1983. Just has to be he...
2018-06-21 07:51:07 +0000 UTC
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My first video about tricks I have learned in free machining on the lathe - This episode has me making a tool to be able to center my work in a four jaw chuck. Enjoy!
2018-06-16 03:11:05 +0000 UTC
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You're all already Patrons - and Thank You! ☺
2018-06-13 18:21:00 +0000 UTC
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It's always something in Philadelphia....
2018-06-11 04:55:46 +0000 UTC
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My ongoing clock project has an interesting problem that called for an interesting solution. Enjoy!
2018-06-04 19:56:52 +0000 UTC
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A quickie about the new FranLab Quickies and other goings on.
2018-06-02 14:26:40 +0000 UTC
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I'm off of social media so I thought that I'd try something new - quick little videos that show the kind of things that I had been posting on my twitter feed, like project updates and other tid-bits. ...
2018-05-31 19:24:14 +0000 UTC
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My little tribute to the inventor of the guitar effects pedal, Glenn Snoddy.
2018-05-26 22:15:00 +0000 UTC
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I have been getting more adventurous with the Shaper Origin handheld CNC router. This video shows some of my progress in a project that I've been working on for months, it's a clock of course, a...
2018-05-18 03:12:43 +0000 UTC
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People have been asking me for years where the hell can they get that C-64 shirt and the answer is right here! I'm running a special 2 week only campaign on Bonfire for my executable code shirts...
2018-05-05 16:33:00 +0000 UTC
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Hello All!
Just a quick post to let you know that my video content posts have slowed these past months due to my having to put much time and energy into non-FranLab related work. I am s...
2018-04-18 15:53:54 +0000 UTC
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Gadzooks! So much cool stuff from you guys! Let's get right to it...
2018-04-05 02:40:12 +0000 UTC
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One of many custom made tools I need to make for producing a working reproduction for the DSKY electroluminescent display. 3D printing combined with woodworking? Yep!
2018-03-27 18:14:35 +0000 UTC
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8 months ago nobody knew what these things were but now - because of some video a lady put on YouTube - people are fighting over these NIMO things. If I had two more I could build a clock, but i...
2018-03-27 17:16:02 +0000 UTC
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My prototype for a scalable 3D printed lightbox style 7-segment display that you can make as big as your print bed with no light pipes!
2018-03-15 21:36:35 +0000 UTC
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My first official build in my new wood shop space is a quick and simple one, but I do have some how-to tips on hand chiseling a mortise the old fashioned way, and doing smooth jigsaw cuts.  ...
2018-03-12 23:03:00 +0000 UTC
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Hey everyone! I've just about got my act together with the new work space and so I'll be getting back on track with a number of projects that have either been on hold or slowed down to a crawl s...
2018-03-06 14:45:31 +0000 UTC
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Hey all! Those who follow my twitter feed are somewhat in the know about all the moving I've been doing around town, and now I have a new storage space so all that stuff that's now cramming up m...
2018-02-27 16:47:42 +0000 UTC
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Long awaited, but I finally got my Shaper Origin! Time to try it out with a quick little project I found on the Shapertools website. Oh yea - I'm in my new wood shop! Still some work...
2018-02-19 08:06:34 +0000 UTC
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Hey everybody! Those who follow on Twitter know about my recent rental issues but to update I am still in the thick of moving heavy objects from one side of town to the other for no apparently g...
2018-02-12 16:18:02 +0000 UTC
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We've Got Mail! Time to open up the mail box again....
2018-01-28 06:27:48 +0000 UTC
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~ For bringing me (almost) half way to my goal in the first year on Patreon! I hope that I can get ends to meet by the end of 2018 through a variety of means, and with a combination of t-shirt campaig...
2018-01-15 16:54:14 +0000 UTC
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The first installment of Retro Bench - Cool hobby style builds done in the 70's style made with vintage parts, done the old school way.
2018-01-11 01:37:27 +0000 UTC
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2018-01-01 01:19:04 +0000 UTC
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It's December 25th, 1977..... You've got this cool kit and just can't wait to put it together! If you're successful, you'll have a real orange LED.... that blinks! Can you believe it?
2017-12-25 03:13:09 +0000 UTC
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Time once again for some viewer mail!
2017-12-21 06:00:50 +0000 UTC
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2017-12-13 21:02:23 +0000 UTC
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I am very upset about the sudden and unwarranted changes to the Patreon system, and I know that many patrons would prefer to leave Patreon in protest to the fees that they are being charged. But...
2017-12-09 17:45:59 +0000 UTC
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