Author Archives: Blaise Mibeck

About Blaise Mibeck

My wife and I have five great kids. I am a research scientist currently working on CO2 sequestration and other environmental and energy problems. My job requires an in-depth understanding of materials and analytical methods. My training is in physics, mathematics and space studies. I enjoy playing with my kids, music, reading, art, biking, fish keeping and, most of all, talking to my beautiful wife. I play tin whistle and harmonica, some guitar and Irish drums (bodhran). I love listening to all kinds of music. My wife and I home school our children using a classical curriculum. I am interested in (learning about), website design, gardening, frugal living and furnace repair. This website will be used mainly for bragging about my successes in these areas.

To actually add a new post to my blog is a bit of a shock. For my own good I will try to be more consistent.

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Blaise Mibeck | Comments Off

Casting Tin Soldiers (and Ballerinas)

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Blaise Mibeck

Prince August Toy Soldiers is a really *Neat* company that sells kits for learning how to cast your own metal toys. I found Prince August on Ebay — they are based in Ireland and their website is here: Prince August. … Continue reading →

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Toy Motor Assembly

Posted on January 16, 2011 by Blaise Mibeck

This is a neat little motor kit… Continue reading →

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Skeinforge for cnc milling

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck

I now have some information on the use of Skeinforge for milling. Skeinforge has an awesome reputation among additive printing users. Skeinforge is capable of creating g-code for milling. My problem has been finding examples and explanations for how to … Continue reading →

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The SR-71 Blackbird

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck

As a kid I built several models of the SR-71 Blackbird. What I noticed immediately is the enormous size of the engines with respect to the rest of the air craft. In real life these engines are 20feet long by … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Plans

Posted on September 5, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck

We are looking into ways of making our kitchen more comfortable. My son took measurements while I built a model of our kitchen in Google SketchUp. Here is the base model of our kitchen. It currently has a counter top … Continue reading →

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A very cleverly designed tool bag — nice!

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck
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Fish tank update 9-1-2010

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck

The reassembly of my tank went as well as could be expected. Amazingly the two fish in the tank survived — a five year old Kuhli Loach and a three year old bristle nosed pleco. I built the river tank … Continue reading →

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Fish-Tank Take-Back

Posted on August 16, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck

My fish keeping hobby has been taking a backseat — until now. The plan is to create a river tank environment according to the design of Martin Thoene. Continue reading →

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CNC update 7-19-2010

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Blaise Mibeck

I think the missing steps problem has been relieved using slower feed rates…. Continue reading →

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