Would you believe that making the shape at left in SolidWorks saved my family $20?
You can read how - and see the rest of the best of my 3D modeling - here.
Above: the 1965 recording of Wagner's Ring Cycle is the longest musical recording in the registry (see tall spike). The whole graph can be seen here.
Did you know that every year, the Library of Congress declares 25 recordings to be "culturally, aesthetically, or historically significant," and adds them to its National Recording Registry? They've been doing this since 2002, and have listed over 600 recordings, including songs, albums, and entire collections, with no one - not even the Library staff, as they don't keep all the collection - knowing how much, exactly, there is?
But I've come the closest, with my estimate of 2,856 hours, and made some nifty PowerBI graphs to show just what the Registry is made of - you can see those and other data analysis-type projects here.
Ever heard of the game show, Beat Shazam? On that show, contestants compete to identify a song being played as quickly as possible. For the birthday of a fan of the show (to whom I've very close), I made a home version of the game (with certain differences) - a Python Tkinter program later packaged as an executable that anyone with Windows 10 can play! Learn more about that, or my other programming work, here.
Above and left: scenes from Wolf Adventure, an arcade game I (and others) are making to entertain kids at the educational wildlife preserve Wolf Park. As of August 2022, it is a work in progress; much of the graphics are likely to be replaced and certain technical aspects of the code changed - but you can play a facsimile online, with the important features, here!
An information kiosk that I (and others) built for Wolf Park.
A woodshed (one of six) I designed and led a team to build for a summer camp.