Monthly Archives: November 2025

Wizard 8: Upsizing

Posted on November 24, 2025 by RussD

As Halloween approached the electrical engineer freed up time to start working on the Wizard Staff again. With all of the pieces for the dragon paw and orb done I assembled it to check everything out. And discovered several things … Continue reading →

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Wizard 7: Next Version

Posted on November 18, 2025 by RussD

The first question is how big to make it. The only way to decide is to make different sizes and see. Fortunately this is easy: starting with the existing 4″ design simply scale it 125% to create a 5″ version … Continue reading →

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Wizard 6: Prototype Test

Posted on November 11, 2025 by RussD

A bit of background on 3D printers: hundreds of different filaments are available in a wide range of colors and materials. The cheapest and most widely used is PLA, so I’ve been using white PLA for the prototyping. The plan … Continue reading →

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Radio Installation part 3

Posted on November 3, 2025 by RussD

With the new speaker installed in the dash the next job was hooking up all the wiring. RetroSound makes this easier with a two part harness: they have a short harness that plugs into the radio and the main harness … Continue reading →

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