Books and Magazine Reviews
Chasing and Repoussé
Earlier in the year, I mentioned that I had a new book and was experimenting with a new technique called repoussé. This had allowed me to create a primitive medal for the PSTOIC annual get together. Since then I’ve read
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Materials: Brass, Copper, Mild Steel, Silver
Tags: repoussé
From prototype to product – A practical guide for electronic engineers
This book endeavours to teach you what they don’t teach on an electronics degree, the process of turning your prototype circuit into a product. It does so by selecting four key topics; design issues, design for manufacture, compliance and project
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Tags: Design
Maker Pro
Maker Pro is a series of interviews with a wide range of people, looking at how they make their living through making. The interviewees are from diverse backgrounds and countries, and some of the interviewers are quite interesting too. How
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Tags: Makers
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 …
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Tags: design museum, Lighting
Breaking the mishap chain
Human Factors Lessons Learned From Aerospace Accidents and Incidents in Research, Flight Test, and DevelopmentBy Peter W. Merlin, Gregg A. Bendrick, and Dwight A. Holland This book is a series of case studies looking at mishaps with aircraft and space
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Tags: Accidents, Nasa, US Airforce
Books for the Home Machinist
Model Engineers in the UK will all be familar with the workshop practice seriesof books, and authors such as Stan Bray, David Fenner and Harold Hall. Harold Hall kindly got in touch and pointed out these have been converted by
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Tags: Workshop Practice
James Watt’s biography by Andrew Carnegie
I received a Kindle for Christmas and one of the first things I did was to look for free books to read. I managed to find a few and the first was James Watt’s biography by Andrew Carnegie. James Watt’s
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Tags: Inventing, old books, Steam Engine
Environmental Monitoring With Arduino
Since Harold Hall sent through his thoughts on rust, I’ve been thinking about monitoring temperature and humidity in the workshop which in turn will allow me to work out what I can do to improve conditions in there. I already
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Tags: internet of things, monitoring, rust, temperature
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
