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Personal projects & hobbies

I'm Jason Wolin. I serve at Cypress Bible Church in Cypress, Texas, and I'm a follower of Jesus Christ. This page is a short record of projects and hobbies outside of pastoral work and BibleSlides: an electric Beetle conversion, flying, home remodeling, maker builds, and family life. Church context and why BibleSlides exists are on About.

Jason and his wife outdoors in the woods, camping chairs and pine trees behind them
Camping with my wife—folding chairs, pine trees, and a quiet weekend outdoors.

1977 Super Beetle, electrified

I converted a 1977 Super Beetle to electric power and built the battery pack by hand. The pack uses 1,008 Boston-Power-style 5300 mAh cells, spot-welded and balanced into modules. It took a lot of testing; the car now runs on quiet electric torque.

Classic VW Beetle with front compartment open and battery assembly being lowered on straps
Lowering the front-drive assembly into the Beetle.
Wooden-framed Boston Power lithium cell pack with colored balance wiring
Hand-built modules from 1,008 cells.
Laptop screen showing TeslaDash battery cell voltage bars
Cell voltages checked on the bench with TeslaDash.

Private pilot

I'm a private pilot. Most of the work is preflight, pattern practice, and cross-country flights when schedule allows.

Pilot in the cockpit wearing a headset, fields visible below the wing
In the cockpit after preflight.

Weather balloon

High-altitude balloon project: payload, radio tracking, launch, chase, and recovery. The launch and recovery are documented on YouTube.

Watch on YouTube →

Home remodeling & the one-ton beam

I do structural DIY on our house when needed. This clip shows setting a roughly thousand-pound beam with jacks—slow, careful work with the family helping where they can.

Raising the beam into place.

Roof solar

I wired and mounted a residential solar array: rails on the roof, microinverters under where the panels would sit, then the panels themselves.

Mounting rails and wiring before the panels go on.
Person on a residential roof ridge at dusk with solar panels and neighborhood lights
Finished array at dusk.

Time on the lake

A short clip from the lake—calm water and pine trees.

On the water.

Family

My wife and I have five kids. Most of life outside work revolves around them—meals, school, and the usual family calendar.

Family of seven posed in front of a tall evergreen indoors
Our family.
Three family members at a rustic restaurant table with mason jar drinks
Out for a meal.

Pulpit with confidence monitor

I built a pulpit with an embedded confidence monitor and a Stream Deck for scene changes. The goal was simple: keep production controls at the pulpit so the congregation sees the message, not the tech.

Plywood pulpit pedestal with CNC cutouts in a workshop
Shop build—plywood and cutouts for the monitor and controls.

Instructables & maker projects

I've published a few projects on Instructables—LED maps, clocks, CNC parts, and similar builds.

Large wooden LED clock with rainbow-lit numerals on a floor stand
LED clock build.
CNC mill cutting a circular aluminum part on a taped fixture
CNC milling an aluminum part.

Ironman

I finished a full-distance Ironman: swim, bike, and marathon. Long day; grateful to finish.

Crowd of triathletes in wetsuits and bright green swim caps on a shoreline before an open-water swim start
Swim start.