Archive for December, 2013
Review of 2013

This year has been a great year for projects, I started the year by fulfilling a New Year’s resolution and mounting a vice. I also did a bit of upcycling turning some old scaffold planks and builders discards into a
Silly Clock

Whilst watching the Mr Silly, Mr Men episode on TV, I noticed he had a rather splendidly silly clock. Research I was having a think and concluded that such a clock could be made and could also be designed to
Loft Light / Inspection lamp

When I bought my house it came with a loft that was only accessible by a ladder. There was no power up there and hence no light. I wanted something that could be plugged in downstairs but also hung from
Competition Time – ATX Power Splitter

Whilst I was getting the Christmas decorations out of the loft I found a box of old electronics. Along with these was a board I bought a few years back for a project that was later abandoned. It’s an ATX
The Triggers Brush Principle and Bootstrapping

Trigger’s Brush is a phrase I like to use a lot. It refers to the roadsweeper character “Trigger” in the series “Only Fools And Horses”. One time Trigger gets his name in the paper for having the same brush for