User:HankCowdog

Mike Churchill

I am the owner (along with my wife) of a Dallas-based Search Engine Marketing firm. In that role I specialize in PPC, Web Analytics, and troubleshooting/problem solving for clients. On the hobby/personal front, I enjoy trailriding, wargaming (Warhammer), boardgames, reading, etc.

I am a tinkerer: I like to work at lots of different hobby tasks (though I often never quite get around to finishing them). Part of my attraction to the DMS is interacting with other smart people and learning about their interests. Learning how a task is done is interesting to me even if it is not a project/hobby I intend to take up.

Interests

• Programming
• Web Analytics
• Woodworking
• Horses/ trailriding
• Miniatures wargaming
  • Playing
  • Miniatures painting
  • Terrain building
• Halloween props
• Dutch oven cooking
• Gadgets

Equipment at Home

• Table saw
• Scroll saw
• Drill press
• Small router table
• handheld router
• Sliding compound miter saw
• 10" chop saw
• 220V MIG welder
• Generator
• Flatbed trailer and 2 horse trailers
• Tractor and misc. 3-point tractor equipment, e.g.
  • fence stretcher
  • brushhog
  • Post hole digger
  • landscaping box
  • sprayer
  • Boompole
• Many cordless and other hand power tools

Want to Learn

• Improving welding skills
• Improving woodworking skills (more of a carpenter than a fine woodworker)
• Working with Arduinos, esp. animatronics
• Blacksmithing
• General electronics

Recent Projects

• Trashcan armor Halloween costume
• Wargaming terrain
• Custom-molded hand armor for wife's broken hand
• A PrintRBot 3D printer (with crucial help from Pawl)

Future Projects

• Building a "chuckbox" for camp cooking
• Arduino-controlled Strandbeest
• Arduino-controlled Charlieplexed LED cube