Author Archives: Skippy

Apr
03
2012

Affordable Accessible Mouse – Part 4: Prototyping

by Skippy

After Running the code on my Teensy from Post Number Two, I moved onto mounting the buttons and joystick in a box, My Test device has nine buttons; rather than the severn that the finished product will have; plus the joystick’s four; but this allows me to tryout other configurations of buttons etc without having [...]

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Apr
02
2012

Book 1: The Somersetshire Coal Canal

by Skippy

Roger Halse’s “The Somersetshire Coal Canal – A Second Pictorial Journey” “This new volume provides readers with an in depth look into the Somersetshire Coal Canal. The previous volume of old photographs of this delightful short canal, which branched off the Kennet & Avon Canal just south of Bath, brought together what was then considered [...]

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Mar
28
2012

A Month Sans Tea

by Skippy

As some of you know, I am going a month with out Tea, Coffee, or Chocolate. As I had given up my lovely Yorkshire Tea (for hard water), b0atg1rl started feeding me Pepper mint tea while I was at home. However at work I was still sans tea (either fake or real). Several trips to ASDA [...]

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Mar
26
2012

Task 82 – Build a 3D Printer

by Skippy

Sublime’s Tantillus 3D Printer looks like an interesting printer, I will have to ask Nathaniel to print me one when Sublime realises the part files. The things that draw me to this 3D printer are its compact size; its mostly printable; and easy to build (and I guess make replacement parts for ) The Specifications are as follows: Outer dimensions: 225mm [...]

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Mar
20
2012

Problems with Steph may have been electrical.

by Skippy

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Mar
20
2012

Tool Review – Dremel Gas Soldering Iron

by Skippy

I first used my Dremel soldering iron (Dremel Hobby VersaTip 6 in 1 Heat Tool) when I was fixing my Ignition, I have subsequently used it for soldering a load of corroded wires together to try and get Steph to work more consistently, and have been using it on my Affordable Accessible Mouse. When I [...]

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Mar
19
2012

Ignition Switch

by Skippy

After outsmarting the Bacon Sandwich, I recovered Steph to RandomZero‘s last week to fix the Ignition Switch, I purchased a cheap replacement from Maplins which should be able to make and break onto load at ~30A @ 12V (won’t be making or breaking on much more than 4A @ 12V), also my order for a [...]

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Mar
12
2012

Task 44 – Complete a 365 day Photo Challenge

by Skippy

I have started setting up 365.skippy.org.uk as part of my Day Zero challenge list; it wont share an RSS feed with this blog so you may want to add http://365.skippy.org.uk/feed/ to follow it; or follow me on twitter as @SkippyUK. I plan to start this challenge on the first of April; so I have a while to make sure that everything works

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