Should I watch “The Apprentice”?
Those who know me, will know I’m a strong critic of “The Apprentice” this is mostly based on watching a few episodes of earlier series anecdotal comments about the episodes since then. I also feel that the series belittles the
London’s First Mini Makers Faire

This weekend saw London’s first Mini Makers Faire. On Saturday was the interactive day was based at the London College of Communication at Elephant and Castle. There were a few trade stalls, many creations people had made, projects to get
Simple Magnetic Soft Jaws

Most vice jaws are metal and have faces that are patterned to help them grip the work. When working with metal that marks easily or where the surface needs to be finished to a high quality then these jaws can
Tools for electronics

I’ve been dabbling a bit with electronics lately which is something I did quite a lot as a kid. Here’s a couple of things I built some time ago to help. The first which is still in use now is
I2C Mini Shield

The proto shield I’d wired up for the LCD experiments was getting a bit full and I needed to wire up my rotary sensor board so rather than try and add yet another item to it I thought I’d make
Response Welding Gas Monitoring
At the end of last month I posted an idea about monitoring welding gas levels. Jeff Baker from Home Built Workshop responded on twitter to say that he’d had some successful experiments feeling for a temperature difference to find the
Magnetic Sensor Test Rig

Rather than try and combine the electronics and metal work into one setup I thought I’d build a test rig for the magnetic sensor board that I soldered up the other week. This will allow me to prove the circuitry
Folding

This week I attended the Makers’ Guild meetup entitled “‘NOT 3DPrinting’ – less hyped but exciting maker technologies”. We had two speakers, Jamie Elliot of JAILmake who told about his designing and making projects and Gregory Epps of Robofold who
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin





