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A preview of my blog posts, below. Navigate to individual pages to see more.
Posts on good design, bad design, my designs, and the art and joy of creativity.
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Trying Out Fusion 360 CAD For The First Time: CAD Is More Than Just Buttons
First time opening up Fusion 360 just to try it out and prove that learning CAD is more than just button pushes. You learn how to think along the way… more…
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Opportunity Identification, Creativity Exercise: “Two Words” – Trying It Out
I am in the midst of taking MIT’s Becoming an Entrepreneur” course, and the Two Words Creativity Exercise came up as a task. more…
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My Thoughts on AI 2025/2026 cusp
I almost published a post on how AI is my personal assistant and employee. The post lived in my drafts for a year. I just went through my drafts and… more…
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Caliper Curve Finding Tool Attachment: How I Designed It and Guide
I wanted to develop a an attachment for my calipers that could improve my workflow and modeling when it came to modeling curves of mating surfaces. The goal was to… more…
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How to Get Marine Maps Of Your Area For Free (Sailing, Kayaking, Boating, Fishing)
Free NOAA Charts for Sailing Practice and Planning. Here, I outline the steps to get .pdf charts. more…
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My Experience With FreeCAD (An Open-Source 3D Parametric Modeling Software)
I began to see how FreeCAD was actually very similar to any parametric software. Their new version helped a ton too. This is my case for using this tool to… more…
A place where I share my thoughts on this crazy life we’re given. The thoughts that don’t quite fit into a book…yet.
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The Dark Inner Melodies Only I Sing
I want a space to pour out some of my darkness. It’s fucking hard holding things in sometimes. It’s perfectly fine to have wanted a normal life. Fuck normal, right?… more…
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I Can Do It Cheaper, But…
I Can Do It Cheaper, but my solution gets smaller, or the problem gets smaller, or my time gets shorter. Know your worth and the worth of your time. more…
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My Top Books List
Just a few books that helped shape who I am and/or books that resonated. more…
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Charging Back Your Time As A Consumer; A Hypothetical
We live in a time where the consumer is the servant. Your time is worth little. Your value proportinate to the value you provide to the corporate mechanism. You attempt… more…
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A Message to Political Leaders in the United States Amid Project 2025
To the hit and run politicians who are arrogant enough to pass policies that affect them positively while affecting the masses negatively – I have a few things to say… more…
My guides and tutorials dedicated to empowering makers, dreamers and innovators to turn their ideas into reality.
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Opportunity Identification, Creativity Exercise: “Two Words” – Trying It Out
I am in the midst of taking MIT’s Becoming an Entrepreneur” course, and the Two Words Creativity Exercise came up as a task. more…
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Setting Up Keyboard Shortcuts For FreeCAD 3rd Angle Perspective – Mario Sultan Designs’ Workflow
I explain how I setup keyboard shortcuts to show different 3rd angle perspective views in FreeCAD. more…
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Caliper Curve Finding Tool Attachment: How I Designed It and Guide
I wanted to develop a an attachment for my calipers that could improve my workflow and modeling when it came to modeling curves of mating surfaces. The goal was to… more…
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My Experience With FreeCAD (An Open-Source 3D Parametric Modeling Software)
I began to see how FreeCAD was actually very similar to any parametric software. Their new version helped a ton too. This is my case for using this tool to… more…
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I Can Do It Cheaper, But…
I Can Do It Cheaper, but my solution gets smaller, or the problem gets smaller, or my time gets shorter. Know your worth and the worth of your time. more…
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How to Standardize Engineering Drawings: Templates, Checklists, and Best Practices (Human-Centered Design Within Processes)
Repetition of similar tasks can often contribute to errors. This common human behavior applies to processes just as much as it does to systems within products. It’s time we design… more…
My review of the books I read on my creative and entrepreneurial journey. No bull here.
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Joie de vivre (The Joy of Being Alive): The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho Why the title, “Joie de vivre“? In French it means the exuberant joy of being alive. Maybe the exuberant bit is an exaggeration, but it’s… more…
