Primes
The reminders about Amazon Prime day got me thinking about Prime Numbers. Whilst I was coding a power efficient “blink” for a new 4Tronix board I joked that it was not calculating primes. But then I thought, “why not?” I
Posted in: Beginners
Tags: Mathematics, primes
Dressing a grinding wheel
When I’d been grinding my tungsten for the TIG welder, I’d been a bit careless and had ground in the same place each time. The net result was that I ended up with a groove down the middle of the
Ernest Malinowski and the Central Trans-Andean Railway
Following on from the article on Marc Brunel, the next in the series is Ernest Malinowski, a Polish Engineer who put his hand to building a railway across the Andes mountain range. Ernest Malinowski was born in a troubled time
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Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: Ernest Malinowski, Polish, Railway
The other Brunel
Pretty much everyone knows of Isambard Kingdom Brunel the great British Engineer. Fewer know that his father, was also a great engineer and an immigrant from Europe. Marc Isambard Brunel was born into a farming family in Normandy. He was
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: Brunel
3D Printing a knight
Over the weekend, I printed out the parts for the servo activated knight. It is designed to be glue together but I’ve made the parts a sliding fit. See GitHub for the models. 3D printing the parts There were a
Posted in: Dragon Detector
Tags: 3d Printing
Offensive Machines
This week I revisited Novelty Automation, for a talk by Tim Hunkin titled “Offensive Machines”. Talk Tim started out with a history looking at automata, amusement arcades and a variety of mechanical amusements. He included a couple of my childhood
Posted in: Exhibition
Tags: Automata, Tim Hunkin
A knight to scare dragons
Although the Dragon Detector project video has been submitted, I wanted incorporate some of my original ideas which got cut due to time constraints. Rob Ives’ Knight model is excellent but I’d always intended to build an moving 3D model
Posted in: Dragon Detector
Tags: OpenSCAD
Better Know Your Hammer
[amazon text=Better Know Your Hammer&asin=1257832069] is a guide to metal working hammers based on the blog posts of Wendy Edsall-Kerwin. [amazon template=image&asin=1257832069] I purchased an EBook edition of Better Know Your Hammer a few weeks ago. Like Wendy, I also
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: hammer
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
