Beginners
Fairy Door
The local community group asked if we could make a fairy door, my daughter is a “bit big for fairies” but she did fancy practising some maker skills.
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Tags: fairy door
Grove – Wrappers
Recently, Seeed wrote to me and asked to sponsor the site. As I’ve used Seeed before, I was happy to accept and they sent me a voucher to use. They mentioned that there were some Grove modules I might be
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Failure is inevitable
“We need to stop glamorizing failure” says Greg Rollett, “you need to reject failure if at all possible”. Don’t Believe Anyone Who Says Failure Is a Good ThingEveryone fails, but there are no such thing as moral victories. www.entrepreneur.com Now
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Primes
The reminders about Amazon Prime day got me thinking about Prime Numbers. Whilst I was coding a power efficient “blink” for a new 4Tronix board I joked that it was not calculating primes. But then I thought, “why not?” I
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Tags: Mathematics, primes
Bench hook – Mini Woodworking Project
A bench hook is a simple project that teaches many woodworking skills and helps you when sawing. There were no free plans with instructions so I wrote some.
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Tags: handworking, Tools
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
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Materials: Stainless Steel
Tags: Paper
Candle Snuffer
Another little mini project. Some of our candles can be a bit tempremental when blown out with wax flying everywhere and I burn my fingers snuffing them out “manually”. So I went old school and made a little candle snuffer.
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Materials: Copper, Sugru
Tags: copper, snuffer
Something Magical
This weekend was the PSTOIC Christmas dinner and the theme was “Something Magical”. Not having time to come up with something home made I headed over to Trafalgar Square and down into the subway to Davenport’s Magic. I had a
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
