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				Larry Cotton
				Larry Cotton is a semi-retired power-tool designer and part-time community college math instructor. He loves music and musical instruments, computers, birds, electronics, furniture design, and his wife — not necessarily in that order.
 
			 
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                    09/01/2021
                    
                        Fabricate the eccentrically optimum bean stirring device for a perfect roast. 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    07/26/2021
                    
                        One man's 15-year quest to build — and rebuild, and rebuild — the ultimate DIY coffee roaster 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    11/27/2019
                    
                        Hack a flour sifter and a heat gun to roast the ultimate bean. 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    01/10/2019
                    
                        Make a twin-solenoid power nutcracker that bashes the shells and saves the meats 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    09/07/2018
                    
                        Built-in bowl spinner, bean stirrer, and heat gun achieve a perfectly even roast, automatically 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    09/18/2017
                    
                        This number generator squiggles the numbers it produces as a flurry of random lines in an artistic interpretation of abstract... 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    03/03/2017
                    
                        This is no ordinary, circular time telling device. Build your own clock with this elegant and uncommon face. 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    05/03/2016
                    
                        How I built a crazy percussion robot with simple solenoids and a MIDIWidget 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    03/04/2016
                    
                        Pendulums are often meditative, but this double pendulum with attached LEDs spins in crazy unpredictable and highly entertaining ways. 
                     
                 
            
        
            
                
                     
                
                
                    
                    07/16/2015
                    
                        Birds make lousy subjects for digital photographs. But you can perfect shot, thanks to a long shutter-release cable and a... 
                     
                 
            
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