Wood Putty vs. Wood Filler: What’s the Difference?
When repairing furniture and other wooden items or building them from scratch, there are many instances where you will need to fill holes. These holes can be a result of defects or inconsistencies in the wood or where the nails
A digital servo protocol
For the Jumbo Servo I’ve looking at the I2C protocol. Like all protocols there are layers to this and I’m looking at the top layer which is often call the application layer. One thing that seems to be common with
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Tags: code, protocols
Jumbo Servo
Over the weekend I’ve made some progress on the jumbo servo. So that I can tell the position of the servo I’ve made a gear to fit on to the pot shaft and connect to the output gear of the
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Tags: 3d Printing, Electronics
HackSpace Sign, Vision Kit and Jumbo Servo
HackSpace Sign This month sees another project in HackSpace Magazine, a smart glowing sign for your HackSpace made from Electro-Luminescent wires and controlled by an AdaFruit Trinket. It was a fun project to put together with 80% of the time
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Gods Own Junk Yard
At the weekend I visited Gods Own Junk Yard, a maker meetup kindly arranged by Dr Lucy Rogers of the Makers Guild. It’s an amazing collection of Neon signs made or salvaged by Chris Bracey along with movie props and
Posted in: Exhibition
Arduino Day
Saturday was the 8th World Arduino day. Events were held all over the globe including one here in London. Unfortunately I had other commitments so could not attend. But it seemed a good day to do some experiments with Arduino
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Makers Central
Over the bank holiday weekend I made my way up to Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre for Makers Central. I arrived at Euston to find a load of football fans and a message saying my 8:45 train would likely not run
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Badge for Maker Central
I’m off to Maker Central at the NEC next weekend and thought it would be good to have a badge so that people I knew only from online might recognise me and to act as a talking point for new
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
