Archive for 2017
DIYODE Magazine
Just this month a new electronics and making magazine has launched from a publisher in Australia. DIYODE magazine has a great mix of features, education and projects. The magazine style seems to be an easy read but without dumbing down.
Posted in: Inspiration
Technology Will Save Us
“Technology Will Save Us is on a mission to spark the creative imagination of young people using hands-on technology” Unfortunately since this post was written Technology Will Save Us is no longer operating but here’s the old post minus the
Posted in: Inspiration
Key DIY Timber & How to Identify your wood
Do you consider yourself something of a DIY genius? Perhaps you’re more of a tinkerer, or a do-it-yourself newbie who’s keen to improve? Whatever your practical status, you can never know enough about the materials you’re working with. When
Posted in: Guest
Solar powered car maintenance workshop
Workshopshed: Mark Bradley aka Buzz dropped me a message via the contact form letting me know of his project to run his car repair/maintenance workshop from solar power over the summer. He has a mixture of high power items such
Posted in: Interview
Tags: Solar Power
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
Posted in: Beginners
Shed Competition
Attention all you shed enthusiasts. Waltons are looking for your favourite shed pictures and have a great prize for the best. Watch out though as they are quite strict on their definition of a shed, no bunkers or castles in
Posted in: Competition
Tags: shed
Under stairs storage trolley
Workshopshed: Russ is a friend of mine from since college, we spent many hours at the student TV studio and then later worked together installing software around the globe. Last month, I got together with Russ and another friend Richard
Posted in: Woodworking
OpenSCAD and DXF import
I was thinking about making a base for the Furby driver in my Upcycle It design challenge. To model the base, I took the existing base and drew around it. I then scanned the image and imported it into Inkscape.
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
