The Way – St Pauls Cathedral Tercentenary Gates
Last year when I was enquiring about the RSPCA Fountain at the top of Richmond Hill, the Richmond Society told me about a special set of gates in Richmond park. On the edge of Sidmouth Woods there is an avenue
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: Edward Goldsmith, Gates, Joshua De Lisle
LED Jig
The magnifier lamp has 24 LEDs and the housing is plastic so I did not want to solder them up in place. To simplify the assembly a wooden jig was made by drilling 3 hole through the head. An LED
Posted in: Magnifier Lamp
Tags: LED, Tools
Win the metal to build your project
Metals 4u are running a competition for inventors, metal designers and creatives. You just need to sketch your design for a creation using tube clamps and share it on social media before the closing date of Monday 20th July For
Posted in: Inspiration
Hacksawing sheet metal
I’m sure you’ve all heard that horrible noise you get when you put a sheet of metal upright in a vice and try to saw through it. The noise is cause by the sheet vibrating as it’s cut. As well
Posted in: Work Holding
Tags: sawing, Sheet
Other Interesting Weather Projects
I’d not actually done much research into if anyone else had already done built a weather house similar to the Enchanted Cottage project. Following the project I had a check and it turned out that there is at least one
Posted in: Enchanted Cottage, Projects
Enchanted Cottage – An upgraded Weather House
Today was the final day for any submissions to the Enchanted Objects Design Challenge. As well as completing our projects we were tasked with blogging about the challenge on the community website, hence why you’ve not heard more about it
Posted in: Enchanted Cottage
Tags: Arduino, Electronics
3D printing which way up?
For the Enchanted Cottage project I wanted some spacers for between the Arduino Yún and the shields so that it would be securely mounted on the chassis. There’s not a lot of space so I designed some in OpenSCAD with
Posted in: 3dPrinting, Enchanted Cottage
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
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews, Electronics
Tags: Design
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
