Mechanical Gadgets
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Sculpture
Most of the sculptures featured here are made from metal or mixed materials. I find sculptures inspiration, just because something does not have a pure functional purpose does not mean it does not have value.Sculpture
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Win the ultimate Father’s Day…
Buffalo Trace Distillery invites you to nominate the father figures in your life to receive their own home bar packed with delicious bourbon. To enter pop over to Instagram. Here at Buffalo Trace, fellowship and sharing a drink with loved
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Badass Maker Women Film Festival
element14 have been looking for the top makers and engineers to join their element14 Presents team. Now is your chance to vote for the winners
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Tags: E14, Electronics
Inspiration?
Where to get inspiration from and what to do with it when you get it.
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Fantasy tool shop
Have you ever gone to a tool shop, web site or catalogue and browsed through, picking out a fantasy shopping basket of those things you’d get if money was no object? I know I have. So I put the question
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A secret door found at the back of the larder
Whilst trapped in lockdown, Jim and Hilda Bloggs of Bellhouse Road, Sheffield were not expecting to find a priceless historical artefact. When Jim and Hilda decided to re-arrange their store cupboard, little did they know what the would discover. “It
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Tags: APR1, History, secret door
Projects vs Kits
I finished off a project over the weekend for a magazine and also had a message from a budding builder who wanted to create their own version of the EL wire sign created for HackSpace. This got me thinking about
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Tags: kit, learning, project
But what if I fail?
So now you’ve done your thing and did not have success. What next? Here’s some thoughts with dealing with failure.
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Tags: failure, self-improvement
IOT Security
This last week I gave a talk at the Linuxing in London group about IOT security. The main themes were why you should bother and how to secure a system. The talk looked at some historical examples where systems were
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Tags: Azure Sphere, IOT, security
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
