For quite awhile now I've wanted to make some trivets using wood and porcelain tile. I picked up some square tiles at the local Home Depot and set off making a prototype. I learned quickly that not all 6" tiles are actually 6". Some have as much as a 1/4" variance in one dimension or the other, others are exactly the same in both directions (and...

So for Christmas my mother mentioned that she was tired of the plastic silverware organizers that she's used for decades and wanted something made out of wood. With this knowledge I set off to design a silverware divider that would fit my parents drawer perfectly. I had my father discretely measure the drawer one day while my mother was out of the...

Welcome to the inaugural post here at Dust Collected. In the coming weeks and months this site will grow with articles covering topics from software engineering and woodworking, two of my current passions.

By day I'm a software engineer, coming up on my 14th year of employment at PixelMEDIA, based in Portsmouth, NH. My current niche is content management...