Portable Desktop Overhead Camera

Portable Desktop Overhead Camera

Last week I gave a talk to the .net Liverpool group about the project to put .net nanoFramework onto the cheap yellow display. As part of the talk, I wanted to show and explain the board. And as I was

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Umbrella stand repair

Umbrella stand repair

I’m in two minds about calling this a repair as nothing was really broken about the stand. It just came this way with a separate bottom, so more of an annoying design. But otherwise it is a nice design and

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Troubles with Spiders

Troubles with Spiders

Latest video looks at Spiders, smoke machines and printed circuits

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FreeCAD revisited

FreeCAD revisited

I am working on a new project to build a small robot and it will have some parts made on the 3D printer. So for that I needed to model those parts in CAD. I did consider getting a Fusion360

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Jumbo LED

Jumbo LED

How I made a giant LED, using a 10W chip module, some wire, a bell jar and some 3D printed parts.

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Compass Project

Compass Project

My latest project has just been published in DIYODE Magazine #19. I took the work I had done on the Azure Sphere based IOT Compass and ported it over to the Arduino MKR1000. There was a couple of reasons for

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Casting Article

Casting Article

This week I discovered that another of my articles had been published. Model Engineer’s Workshop had published my piece of sand casting using 3D printed patterns and aluminium, for some reason the article does not appear in the table of

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Jumbo Servo

Jumbo Servo

Over the weekend I’ve made some progress on the jumbo servo. So that I can tell the position of the servo I’ve made a gear to fit on to the pot shaft and connect to the output gear of the

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