Enchanted Cottage – Proposal
My plan for the Element14 Enchanted Objects Design Challenge is to take an old fashioned weather house and retrofit it with electronics
Posted in: Electronics, Enchanted Cottage
Tags: weather house
Three cornered thumb-wheels
To clamp my magnifier lamp in place I’ve bought some nice stainless steel bolts with half thickness nuts. This means that the nuts are roughly the same size as the heads giving it symmetry. I’ve also made some thumb-wheels /
Posted in: 3dPrinting, Magnifier Lamp
Magnifier Lamp – Design and test
For an upcoming project I wanted to build some circuit boards and the main component only came as a surface mounted device (SMD). I asked the members of the Element14 community what they would recommend regarding tools for SMD components.
Posted in: 3dPrinting, Magnifier Lamp
Tags: Lighting
Engineering is just helping people
I was reading an article by Dr Lesley Paterson in the IET magazine that looked into the debate that Engineering should be taken out of STEM because Engineering is different in that its about using those Science, Technology and Mathematics
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: charity, disabilities
Bench modification
Thanks to some good friends I now have a large ex-BBC filing cabinet. This has 4 large drawers and is 1m wide by 1.2m tall. There’s a couple of concrete blocks in the bottom to stop it falling over when
Posted in: Woodworking, Workshop Furniture
Tags: dowel
A new exhibition of amazing machines
Novelty Automation is an experience to delight, bewilder and surprise. It is a cross between a penny arcade, art installation and Heath Robinson sketchbook.
Posted in: Exhibition, Inspiration
Tags: Automata, invention
Crossness Pumping Station Visit
Back in September 2011 Martin visited the Crossness Pumping Station, built by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and officially opened by the Prince of Wales in April 1865. Martin Evans: This was the Victorian’s solution to London’s sewage problem. The basic idea
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: bazalgette, Sewage
Solar powered workshop
I’ve got a big cable connecting my shed to the mains supply but for many people the distance or terrain make it difficult to install power. So I’ve asked Kevin from The Solar Shed to explain a bit about the
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
