Furniture upcycling
When we moved into the current house we bought some very cheap pine furniture to tide us over. The wardrobes did not last long with the doors warping so that they did not close properly so we replaced those with
Internet of things
With regard my temperature and humidity monitoring project I’ve been looking at using a small microcontroller to either log or publish the data to the internet. I’ve been looking at the Arduino and clones for this task. I’ve been trying
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Tags: Arduino, internet of things
Environmental Monitoring With Arduino
Since Harold Hall sent through his thoughts on rust, I’ve been thinking about monitoring temperature and humidity in the workshop which in turn will allow me to work out what I can do to improve conditions in there. I already
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Tags: internet of things, monitoring, rust, temperature
Fixing a battery charger
As mentioned in an earlier entry, I need to make a security screwdriver to enable me to open an old battery charger that was broken. One of the chaps on the Blokeyshed forum pointed out that this was potentially dangerous
Model Engineer Exhibition 2012
This year’s Model Engineer Exhibition is earlier than previous years and is the first weekend in November at Sandown Park. Apparently this is something to do with the Olympics but I can’t quite work that one out. As per usual
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Tags: Model Engineer Exhibition, Sandown Park
Making a security screw driver
I’ve an old Maplin AA battery charger that although it works well has been dropped a few times and the case got damaged. I don’t really want to use it in that state so I thought I’d take it apart
Weld Dot Com needs you
The industry directory and maker of the “Mr Tig” videos Weld.Com are looking for writers who weld or welders who write. They are specifically looking for two kinds of people: An industry leader who is very knowledgeable on a certain
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The Power of We – Repair Groups
I love to fix things but many people are intimidated by the task or just don’t know where to start. There is a solution, which is to team up with people who enjoy fixing things. There are a surprisingly large
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
