Category Archives: Maker

Feb
12
2013

Hacky Birtday

by Skippy

On Saturday 23rd FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology [*NOT* Federation Against Copyright Theft]) are having their buildings 10th Birthday party; Join FACT in celebrating 10 years since the FACT building opened on Wood Street in Liverpool with a family fun day full of party games, birthday cake and arty activities throughout the building. [...]

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Jan
21
2013

The moving of Projects

by Philip McGaw

I have recently rethought about how I want to lay out my on-line presence. Since getting a job where I can do awesome things, and get paid for them, I am going to start putting more time and effort into keeping PhilipMcGaw.com updated. I have already uploaded and plan to keep up-to-date the write up of FACTs “Art [...]

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Dec
12
2012

Penny’s for Charity

by Skippy

While sat in HacMan this evening, Kat, nbHacker, and a few others, we went off to see if you could buy free stuff on eBay. It turns out that there is not a lot of free stuff on eBay, or even any single paper clips. However, people are selling One Pence Coins, Now since I [...]

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Oct
04
2012

230 Volt System

by Skippy

While b0atg1rl and I plan to be continues cruisers for a while, but when we are hanging around in an area for a while we hope to also be able to use shore supplies, nbSteven came with 4 x Single sockets on a 230 circuit that would be useful to use when we need 230V [...]

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Sep
19
2012

Solar Power on Boats

by Skippy

A while ago I looked at Solar Panels (Photo Voltaic) and did some research, (including reading a very hippy book [Electrosmog anyone??]) Tom of nbWaiour wrote this post about nbDestiny’s solar panel mounting system, which he says appears to be “electrically controlled and ‘self-seeking’”. Solar Trackers are not unushal in comercial PV instalations, however they are quite unusual on narrow [...]

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Sep
19
2012

Extruder Thoughts

by Skippy

While working with Nathaniel trying to print parts for my Tantillus, I have seen him dismantle his extruders on a number of occasions. The reason for this seems to be that the hobbed bolt is a bit of a week bit in the design process. Since the Tantillis uses a Bowden tube rather than the [...]

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Sep
04
2012

Playing with 3D printers

by Skippy

Today I am sat with Nathaniel, working out how to get parts for my Tantillusup and running, I have downloaded the Mac pre compiled copy of kliment /Printrun, from koti.kapsi.fi/~kliment/printrun/, (also needed Slicer for Mac). With both of these installed, when trying to load Nautilus Gears as a test, I get this error: To get [...]

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Aug
15
2012

My 3D printer

by Skippy

I have got the first parts of my Tantillus 3D printer, I got the outside parts lazered by Sham Glam (1st post). Here is the unboxing photos, these were taken at Swindon Hack Space, at the Swindon Museum of Computing: Just need to order some printed parts, and get the vitamins. I will keep my blog [...]

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