How to sharpen a pocket knife
A guide to sharpening a pocket knife using a sharpening stone and lubricant
Posted in: Guest
Tags: Sharpening, Sponsored
New Year
A productive start to the New Year despite a cold. Got my first magazine article sent off for editing. In the process I learnt a few things about Fusion360, the first is that there’s a whole workspace I’d not been
Posted in: CAD
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” This is (not) Rocket Science is a book about the PIC Microcontroller series. Many modern microcontrollers have hardware blocks for communications, timing, analogue to digital conversion, capacitive sensing etc.
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
Fillets and bitbanging
This week there’s been some more work on the IOTCompass project. I realised that the GPS and Compass module actually had two connectors. A serial one for the GPS functionality and a separate I2C based compass module. The SDK for
Posted in: IOTCompass
Tags: AzureSphere, CAD, I2C
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
