Maker Pro
Maker Pro is a series of interviews with a wide range of people, looking at how they make their living through making. The interviewees are from diverse backgrounds and countries, and some of the interviewers are quite interesting too. How
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews
Tags: Makers
3D printing small details
For the Enchanted Cottage project I decided to make the mechanism for moving the figures using a 3D printer. I thought that ABS plastic would be a good material as the parts would be light weight and by printing them
Posted in: 3dPrinting, Enchanted Cottage
Tags: Enchanted Cottage, OpenSCAD
Arduino Starter Kit Review
The guys at Oomlout kindly sent me one of their Arduino Starter Kits to have a look at. As per most starter kits it’s based around the Arduino Uno. The Uno is simplest Arduino to get started with so is
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Working with 3mm hardwood plywood
For the Enchanted Cottage project I wanted to add a structure to hide all the mechanics and electronics. Because the weather house was made from 3mm plywood, I thought it made sense to make the rest from the same. The servos also needed testing so to make this easier a simple test rig was made.
Posted in: Enchanted Cottage, Woodworking
Tags: sawing
Party Political Broadcast by the Metric UK Party
A slightly different guest post today but it’s a topic that’s close to my heart so thought it should have a forum to speak 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the UK’s promise to adopt the metric system, we believe
Maker Movement
Custom Made have published an informatic on “The Emergence of the Maker Movement“. This looks at the processes behind making, funding, tools, demographics and people, there is also a selection of interesting links of companies involved with Makers.
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: Makers
Magnifier Lamp – Printing the head
The main part of the magnifier lamp is the head, after a few variants of design I ended up with something I was happy to print. I loaded the 25x140x160mm model into Automaker and selected the fine option. 36 minutes
Posted in: 3dPrinting, Magnifier Lamp
Building a workbench
I’d been discussing workbenches with my Dad who’s just setting up a new workshop after a house move so I asked Brandon from Solid Wood Designs in New Zealand what he thought the basic fundamentals were for creating a workbench.
Posted in: Guest, Woodworking, Workshop Furniture
Tags: Bench, solidwooddesigns
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
