Archive for January, 2015
Welding a stainless steel toilet roll holder
Our Ikea toilet roll holder broke into two parts. On inspection there was just a single weld holding it together and that was obviously not very strong. As I have welding equipment I though it should be a straightforward repair.
Posted in: Repairs, Welding
Materials: Stainless Steel
Tags: Toilet roll holder
Award for services to the electronics community
Member of the month award and interview.
Posted in: Electronics
Tags: Element14
How to design a light – Design Museum
How to design a light from the Design Museum This is an inspirational and conceptual book rather than a practical study guide. It’s hard to tell if the book is intended for the coffee table or …
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: design museum, Lighting
3D Printed Medal
Every year I meet up with my old friends from the Student Television of Imperial College. On previous years I’ve taken along my Flea Chariot and some magic washers. This year the theme was “Something made this year”…
Posted in: 3dPrinting, PSTOIC Medals
Tags: medal, OpenSCAD, Painting, PLA, PSTOIC
Hackaday Omnibus
For the last ten years the Hackaday website has been sharing the best hacks from around the world. Now they are determined to have a permanent record of the best of those hacks. Hacking is an art form that uses
Commercialising ideas and inventions
Following a chat on twitter, I asked Patrick Andrews if he could provide some insight into how inventions and ideas could be commercialised. Ok, the first thing is to try to stop using the word “commercialisation”, because that is a
OpenSCAD
As part of the RoadTest of the CEL Robox 3D Printer I proposed to look at printing some gears. This will check both the printers ability to print detailed shapes and also if there is any warping. The geometry of
Posted in: CAD
Tags: CAD, OpenSource
Why doesn’t everyone have a 3D printer?
Stan Przybylinski @smprezbo posted an interesting quote from Autodesk University 2014. “Reality is that 3D printing is falling short. Only 200K printers have ever been sold. Up to 75% of printed models are failures #AU2014” Given the number of different
Posted in: 3dPrinting
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
