Archive for June, 2013
Simple Magnetic Soft Jaws
Most vice jaws are metal and have faces that are patterned to help them grip the work. When working with metal that marks easily or where the surface needs to be finished to a high quality then these jaws can
Tools for electronics
I’ve been dabbling a bit with electronics lately which is something I did quite a lot as a kid. Here’s a couple of things I built some time ago to help. The first which is still in use now is
Posted in: Electronics, Storage
Tags: Tools
I2C Mini Shield
The proto shield I’d wired up for the LCD experiments was getting a bit full and I needed to wire up my rotary sensor board so rather than try and add yet another item to it I thought I’d make
Posted in: Electronics
Tags: Arduino
Response Welding Gas Monitoring
At the end of last month I posted an idea about monitoring welding gas levels. Jeff Baker from Home Built Workshop responded on twitter to say that he’d had some successful experiments feeling for a temperature difference to find the
Magnetic Sensor Test Rig
Rather than try and combine the electronics and metal work into one setup I thought I’d build a test rig for the magnetic sensor board that I soldered up the other week. This will allow me to prove the circuitry
Posted in: Electronics
Tags: magnetic rotary sensor, test rig
Folding
This week I attended the Makers’ Guild meetup entitled “‘NOT 3DPrinting’ – less hyped but exciting maker technologies”. We had two speakers, Jamie Elliot of JAILmake who told about his designing and making projects and Gregory Epps of Robofold who
Posted in: Beginners
Materials: Stainless Steel
Tags: Paper
Simple light for drill
It’s not an issue at this time of year but in the autumn and winter it gets a bit gloomy in the Workshopshed even with the lights on. For that reason I knocked together this simple work light. The parts
Quality Threads
Cutting screw threads in the lathe is one of the more advanced techniques you can try in your home workshop. But how do you know if it has been done correctly? Although it is tempting to just try fitting the
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: inspection, quality, threads
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
