Carl Rosendahl

Educator, Entrepreneur, Pixelgeek

My first career was founding and building Pacific Data Images (which became PDI/DreamWorks) – it was an incredible experience.

Since then I’ve been a Venture Capitalist, serial entrepreneur, mentor and I am now Distinguished Professor of Practice at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center and Director of the Silicon Valley satellite campus.

I take pictures, play music and program for fun – sometimes combining all those together.

I’m an active Maker, here are some samples of recent projects I’ve done.

Workbench

I had to build a workbench before I could build our garage cabinets. I love this bench – it’s made [...]

Garage Cabinets

This was my first time building real cabinets. I designed them as a custom fit for the space using other [...]

Bookshelves

I built these bookshelves for my office/music room. There are three of them screwed together to make one long system. [...]

Monitor Backlight

I published my second Instructable last week, about how to build a simple backlight for PC monitors. Eyestrain can be [...]

Legotar

A fully functioning electric guitar built out of Lego. I must’ve been nuts to decide to do this, but now [...]

Desklamp

Made from an outdoor walkway lamp. A piece of pipe and a flange painted black make the stand, with small [...]

Lifeguard Chair

The chair was built from redwood that I recycled from a deck that we tore out. It’s very large, two [...]

Welded Creatures

These were created in a welding class at The Crucible. The moose lives in our garden – his rebar neck works [...]

I’ve done a few projects that last about a year and are focused on developing a new skill. A couple of them have been blogged actively.