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
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
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
