Welding Experiment
Whilst I was out in the workshop welding up a frame, I thought I’d try an experiment. My idea was to use a security marker pen, the type that only shows up under UV light. I drew a couple of
Welding project
Back in February I drew up a metal frame in CAD, that I promised to fabricate for a friends shed. I cut up the metal last month and the other weekend tack welded it together. I also got to try
4 Metal Easter Eggs
The Fabergé Big Egg Hunt is having a Grand Finalle in Covent garden and you can see all of the eggs that were previously scatter around the city. Here’s some of my favourite metal eggs, some which are still available
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April Fools
Just incase anyone did not twig, yesterday’s post about Leonardo’s Ipad was an April Fools joke, the fact the control mechanism was very like an Etch-a-sketch should have given it away. The touring exhibition Leonardo Da Vinci’s Workshop will be
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Leonardo da Vinci – Ipad
Internal workings Engineers and historians at the Museo Leonardiano di Vinci in Florence have built a 3D model of one of Leonardo’s sketches and concluded that it is a hand held sketch pad that records sketches without the need for a pencil or
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Prototyping
For the next step in my little electronics project I was looking at adding in the LCD to the display the output, I’ve selected an I2C device so that it requires very little wiring and also does not need a
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Tags: Arduino
Repair Manifesto from 1831
A comment about Joshua Field (partner of Henry Maudslay) by James Nasmyth from when they both worked at Messrs. Maudslay, Sons and Field of Lambeth. “One point he often impressed upon me. It was, he said, most important to bear
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Origins of the factory
Whilst doing a bit of reading I discovered that the term “Factory” is actually a shortening of an older word “Manufactory” which was in use in the 1800s. The Miriam Webster dictionary states that the first known use of that
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
