Ukrainian Trident Bird

Someone asked me to design a tattoo that was Ukrainian and involved a Bird, this is what I came up with based on the Ukrainian Trident. I posted it a while back and I sometimes see it pop up on the web in the context of Ukrainian art which always surprises me that other people […]

Binaural Beat

I enjoy the show Fringe but I often feel disappointed in myself that while I usually have a number of contraptions in various states of progress on my work bench, none of them are worthy of Walter Bishop’s attention. I happened to be researching building an ECG to monitor brain waves for a different unrelated […]

Time Machine Metronome App

I developed this Android application based on a request from a musician friend to build a metronome that could change time signatures. Fun project! The Time Machine is the premier metronome for both the student and professional alike. It is hard to fathom but it is the first and only metronome on the market that […]

Puzzle Box Core

I like the idea of puzzles and secret messages. Codes hidden in plain sight, cryptic maps to treasure guarded by ingenious traps, mansions with hidden doors and all sorts of things of that mysterious nature I find super sexy. I am also drawn to certain biblical writing and certainly all of the alchemist works written […]

Rotary Stirling Engine

Every geeky inventor type has a soft spot in their heart for Stirling engines. It is where elegant engineering meets free-energy no-nothing conspiracy nuts. The history of the Stirling engine that I recall reading is that it was developed by a priest around the turn of the century as an alternative to the steam engine […]

2D Synthesizer

I went out to see a friend of mine play with his band and It was the first band I had seen play in many years. My wife was sick and so I went by myself and on the way home I spent the long ride back alone thinking about music theory and instruments. I […]

Sketch of my Dad

After my dad passed away I drew this picture of him Here was the photo I based it on:

Bar Cabinet

When I moved in I built this liquor cabinet / flip down bar. I have since seriously outgrown since, but here is when it seemed entirely oversized! Couple pics of it in progress: The stencil I made and burned into the fold-down bar top:

Solar Orrery

My solar orrery is an artistic design to encode the position of the sun into the surface of a cylindrical wooden block such that it could be rotated to a given date and a rotating 24hr dial riding on a stylus on a snaking groove on the surface of the cylinder would point at the […]

Wooden Steins

Just a little fun making some mugs, the first one was more comically large, the second is made from segments that required an interesting jig to taper them in both thickness and width over their length. Revisited this in 2017 for a birthday gift for a friend, pretty happy with the results, particularly making it […]

Author: Michael Rosola