Badass Maker Women Film Festival
element14 have been looking for the top makers and engineers to join their element14 Presents team. Now is your chance to vote for the winners
Posted in: Inspiration
Tags: E14, Electronics, women makers
Frustrations of sourcing parts
Whether starting out with designing electronics, becoming a pro-maker or repairing obsolete kit, having a reliable source of parts can be key to success.
Posted in: Guest
Tags: Electronics, Sponsored, Suppliers
Generation Experiments
I’ve been sorting some parts and experimenting with DC motors for the Dodo Automata.
Posted in: Dodo Automata
Tags: Electronics, generation
Jumbo Servo Motor Current
This weekend I’ve been testing the motors for the Jumbo servo. Adding on from the last test, I put in the L298 H-Bridge module, rather than test with the motor, I used two LEDs wired back to back. This allowed
Posted in: Jumbo Servo
Tags: Electric Motors, Electronics, 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
Posted in: Jumbo Servo
Tags: 3d Printing, Electronics
Knight v2 Completion
The knight project was completed just in time for the October Linuxing in London meetup. Mechanics The 3D model was completed and painted a week or so back. I filled a spare hole in the box lid with a dowel
Posted in: Dragon Detector
Tags: 3d Printing, Electronics, Talk
Review of projects
In a recent Ben Heck episode Ben revisits an old project and discusses what went wrong with it and how to do it better. I think this is a great idea and will have a look through some of my
Posted in: Projects
Tags: Ben Heck, David Rose, Electronics, Enchanted Objects
Enchanted Cottage – An upgraded Weather House
Today was the final day for any submissions to the Enchanted Objects Design Challenge. As well as completing our projects we were tasked with blogging about the challenge on the community website, hence why you’ve not heard more about it
Posted in: Enchanted Cottage
Tags: Arduino, Electronics
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
