Archive for June, 2016
The other Brunel
Pretty much everyone knows of Isambard Kingdom Brunel the great British Engineer. Fewer know that his father, was also a great engineer and an immigrant from Europe. Marc Isambard Brunel was born into a farming family in Normandy. He was
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: Brunel
3D Printing a knight
Over the weekend, I printed out the parts for the servo activated knight. It is designed to be glue together but I’ve made the parts a sliding fit. See GitHub for the models. 3D printing the parts There were a
Posted in: Dragon Detector
Tags: 3d Printing
Offensive Machines
This week I revisited Novelty Automation, for a talk by Tim Hunkin titled “Offensive Machines”. Talk Tim started out with a history looking at automata, amusement arcades and a variety of mechanical amusements. He included a couple of my childhood
Posted in: Exhibition
Tags: Automata, Tim Hunkin
A knight to scare dragons
Although the Dragon Detector project video has been submitted, I wanted incorporate some of my original ideas which got cut due to time constraints. Rob Ives’ Knight model is excellent but I’d always intended to build an moving 3D model
Posted in: Dragon Detector
Tags: OpenSCAD
Better Know Your Hammer
[amazon text=Better Know Your Hammer&asin=1257832069] is a guide to metal working hammers based on the blog posts of Wendy Edsall-Kerwin. [amazon template=image&asin=1257832069] I purchased an EBook edition of Better Know Your Hammer a few weeks ago. Like Wendy, I also
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: hammer
Boxing the Dragon
The last part of the Dragon Detector project was to put it all together and box it up. I had planned to make a 3D printed figure with a servo operated arm, however I knew that would take time so
Posted in: Dragon Detector
Tags: Dragonboard 410c
Simply Stairs
Mark Milner is an expert in wood construction. He lectures and assesses students at North Kent College in Gravesend, and is an Assessment Development Consultant for City and Guilds of London Institute. Mark has written a great book on building
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
