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Thanks New Patrons!

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%...

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Viewer Mail #7

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!

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Sneak Preview - Viewer Mail #7 Expanded Clip

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...

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Turning Tricks: Finding Center

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!

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100% Goal For 2018

You're all already Patrons - and Thank You!  ☺

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Mains Pains - Two Phase Days

It's always something in Philadelphia....

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Making A 50hz Digital Clock Circuit Run In The USA

My ongoing clock project has an interesting problem that called for an interesting solution.  Enjoy!


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FranLab Quickies, Woodshop Therapy, and Shirts Away!

 A quickie about the new FranLab Quickies and other goings on. 

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3D Printed Custom Fasteners

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. ...

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The Father Of Fuzztone - Glenn Snoddy

My little tribute to the inventor of the guitar effects pedal, Glenn Snoddy. 

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Making A Clock Case With The Origin CNC Router

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...

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Commodore 64 Basic T-Shirt!

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...

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Updates

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...

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Viewer Mail #6

Gadzooks!  So much cool stuff from you guys!  Let's get right to it... 

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Making A Silkcreen Jig + Vacuum Holddown for DSKY Display Project

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! 

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Anyone wanna snipe a NIMO auction for FranLab?

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...

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3D Printed Mega Displays

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! 

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New Camera Mount Project - With Mortise Cutout

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.   ...

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Back to Projects

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...

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The Great Hamster Wheel of Storage

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...

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Shaper Origin Handheld CNC Machine

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...

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Pause on Video

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...

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Viewer Mail #5

We've Got Mail!  Time to open up the mail box again.... 

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Thanks Everyone ~

~ 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...

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Fran's Retro Bench: BCD Clock Counter With Numitron

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.  


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The Apollo 13 Squawk Box


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2017 Holiday Vintage Kit Build!

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?

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Viewer Mail #4

Time once again for some viewer mail! 

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No more drama for 'yer mamma.


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Alternative Subscription for all Patrons!

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...

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