Archive for December, 2018
Reflecting on 2018
Looking back on 2018 it has been a particularly busy year. January started with the launch of “A Little Saw”, a book to help you pick the right cutting tool for your project. The book has sold a few copies
Posted in: Yearly Review
Tags: 2018, New Years Resolutions
Let it snow!
Given that the penultimate post of the year falls on Christmas eve, I’ve been thinking about sleighs. Over on YouTube, Warren has been making a fantastic wooden sleigh. Just a table top version but a lovely build. Over at Greenfield
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: Plans
This is (not) rocket science
“How a New Generation of Core Independent Peripherals Redefined Embedded Control” is a book about the PIC Microcontroller series. Many modern microcontrollers have hardware blocks for communications, timing, analogue to digital conversion, capacitive sensing etc. These are typically configurable in
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: Microchip, PIC
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Earlier in the year, a work trip took me out to California. On the way back to LAX airport, we had to make a detour to avoid a traffic problem. As the cab passed over a railroad I spotted an
Posted in: Exhibition
Captive Nut How to
Russ and I attended the same router course last year and since then he’s been using his new skills to build gaming chairs. One of the challenges for this was to fitting the nuts into the boards so that they
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
