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
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
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
Jumbo LED

How I made a giant LED, using a 10W chip module, some wire, a bell jar and some 3D printed parts.
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
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
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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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin




