Recently I got a Sony direct drive record player from a garage sale. The previous owner was the original owner, the way he talked about it you could tell he took care of it. The record player works perfectly, except that one of the hinges that holds up the lid was broken. This means that the lid wouldn’t stay up on its own.
Lately I have been spending most of my time using and upgrading my makerbot thing-o-matic 3d printer. I have been using it to print parts for school projects such as robot chassis (not online yet) and a stereoscopic camera mount (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8050).
I have also been designing and printing things because I wanted to see if I could. Most of those can be seen here: http://www.thingiverse.com/J_Hodgie/things.
MechLabs is a site for (mostly) mechatronics-related projects.
The projects will range from quick projects that (should) be able to finished over a single weekend from conception to completion to longer projects that could take upwards of a month (anything linger than that is unlikely). I will also periodically post some short tutorials on how I get a single part working as a stepping stone to a larger project.
To see some previous projects visit http://www.instructables.com/member/J_Hodgie/. Lately I have been posting my projects to thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/J_Hodgie).
To find more about me and why I build robots check out the about page above.