3 interesting electric motors
When I was younger I would borrow books from the Library such as Usborne series and the Know How Book of Batteries and Magnets and then create things in my bedroom based on my notes taken from the books. Back
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Tags: Electric Motors
Bekonscott
The other week my father was visiting so we took the family to see Bekonscott. You can find it just off the M40 a junction up from the M25. “Bekonscot Model Village and Railway is the world’s oldest original model
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Tags: model village, trains
Pins and Needles
I was casually picking a splinter out of my finger the other day and remembered some advice that my mother had given me. “Always use a needle to remove splinters, never a pin as that can cause infection”. I decided
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Tags: blood poisoning, iron, Metal, pin making, rust, Steel
TiN coating
I ordered some replacement drill bits this week. I’ve still not really mastered regrinding bits and given my shed time is a bit limited it seemed better to just buy replacements and use the old bits for some project requiring
A little venture with electronics – Mousing
As per wiring up the LCD, the PS2 mouse should again have been a simple process. Again the libraries are provided and there are plenty of examples. I ripped up an old tablet (no drivers for that since Win95) to
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Tags: Arduino, mouse, ps2
James Nasmyth an Autobiography
Although I don’t have a kindle yet, I do have the software on my phone and laptop. One of the books that appeared in the free downloads was “James Nasmyth engineer; an autobiography”, obviously I had to download that and
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Tags: Engineer, Scottish, Steam Hammer
A little venture with electronics – LCD diagnostics and software
So wiring up the LCD and getting it to display some text should have been simple, I had all the bits, the wiring was very straight forward and the libraries for programming were all written. But the screen was just
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Tags: Arduino, I2C, LCD
Sugru – Fixing, hacking, creating
I’ve known about Sugru for some time now but not really had a project that warented it’s use. However, they recently had a sale so I got an 8 pack for half price and co-incidentally had a couple of projects
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
