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After the success of printing the sledge for my DIY ROV in the last post, It is now time to try and wire it up, I am using two of these Youmile 3S Battery Protection Board Modules, they claim to be capable of managing 10A, which I feel is pushing […]

Assembling the battery sledge

A beautiful print using my roll of Filamentive grey filament, this is the battery and electronics sledge for my 3d Printed ROV. I am doing my design in fusion360, and printing the parts on our Prusa MK3s. Thanks to Ravi Toor of Filamentive for getting me the filament to play […]

Battery sledge for my ROV

Tamarisk helped me set this all up, she is a professional Python developer! Make sure your mac is up to date and running the latest version of macOS, I am running macOS Monterey 12.0.1 at the moment. Open a terminal and run the following command to install the Xcode Command […]

Python development on macOS

Arduino VS Code Mac

I know there are probably about a million of these tutorials all over the internet; however, this is my setup, so I know what I did should I need to do it again… Prerequisites VS Code needs to be installed on your system. The standard Arduino IDE needs to be […]

Visual Studio Code Arduino on my Mac

Tamarisk has been making use of Bob’s AnyCube printer to make Christmas card presses for use in her Adana letterpress machines, (At some point they should write blog posts about it!) The presses that they can make in Bob’s printer work fine on the 5 x 3-inch press, but the […]

Anycube 3D Printer and Offer breakdown

Since my last Workbench Friday Photo we have moved house, and built a much better home office! Complete with a better view, and more storage for random stuff! My Wife, Tamarisk is in the middle of making Christmas Cards, so that is why the Adana printing presses are out on […]

Workbench Friday Photo

Automotive Fusebox

If you spend anytime more involved with vehicles than reading a Haynes manual at some point you will have to work out what someone means by KL31 KL is the abbreviation for ‘klemme’ which is the German term for connector/connection, or ‘Klemmenbezeichnungen’ which means Terminal designations. This is mostly encoded […]

What is KLR, KL15, KL50, KL30, and KL31?

I can’t remember where I came across this paper on the design of a ball lock multi-speed transmission system, written by students at the West Virginia University Institute of Technology The SAE Mini Baja team requires a custom, multispeed transmission for their vehicle. Concurrent engineering with the Baja design team […]

Two Speed Gearbox

Trip to The Pride of the Valley Sculpture Park

I came across this video via the K9 Facebook group, it was published a while ago, when I get a chance I will sit down and listen to it.

John Leeson’s Doctor who’s k9 lockdown interview

After having a go at assembling the ears printed in the [[blog:k9_nose_gun|last post]], I decided to have a go at making something a little easier to assemble. [[wiki:projects:k9:reference:mat_prentis|Mat Prentis]] assembled this guide that gave me the dimensions below: Heading into Fusion360 I generated the following model: [[tag:thinkl33t]] Sliced it and […]

K9 ears

To avoid this joke in future, I have started printing my K9’s head by printing the two parts of the nose first:

My dog’s got no nose

I have been trying to design a K9 for 3D printing for a while, even using Fusion 360 getting the body design has been a stumbling block, On Facebook, there is a k-9 builders community and a link to a OneDrive account with 200 x 200 sliced STLs. I have […]

3D Print K9

MyOpenLab Splash Screen

After my last attempt at getting MyOpenLab to work on macOS, I posted my question on the MyOpenLab Facebook group, where I was given the following response: Hello, what version of MyOpenLab, Java and OSX are you testing? You could test the most recent development version: https://myopenlab.org/…/distribution_macosx_3.12.1.zip The fail could […]

MyOpenLab – macOS Catalina

Following on from my recent post about Glastonbury’s fun and exciting 5G report, I have had the chance to review the full report in more detail, the one that was pulled from the website and replaced with the executive summary… The executive summary is a dull document, that has redacted […]

Oh Glastonbury.

I have a selection of common-ish values of components I use in my designs. I bought a Starter kit of 0805 size Surface Mount Resistors from Electronic Things a while ago, this gave me most of the values that I have made spaces for in my boxes. I also have […]

SMD Resistors and Capacitors

MyOpenLab Splash Screen

At work, I am trying to make some automated test equipment, (I also have some personal test equipment to automate as well). At work I use MS Windows 10 for my laptop, home I use macOS, and for embedded test equipment I am planning on using Raspberry Pi and Pi […]

MyOpenLab – macOS Catalina

Over the last year, Glastonbury Town Council has been doing a “fact-finding” mission on the impact of 5G on human health so they can work out if they should promote the roll-out of it in Glastonbury. I suspect this is at least partially in response to the Glastonbury Festival trials […]

FFS Glastonbury!

Credit card machine

Even before Covid-19 took over the UK, and caused people to not want to handle cash, cash has been falling out of favour for years, the BBC reported on this back in 2019, and produced the following chart: I have a Monzo bank card, and am very happy with it […]

Minimum card transactions and why they suck

On LinkedIn a while ago Glen one of the reps at Würth Elektronik offered free PCB fidget spinners. I asked nicely if MiniBoyGeek could have one, and as such one was delivered, I am glad I opened the bag before giving it to him. A fun little build of 9 […]

Toy from Würth Elektronik

LibVirt

A while ago I managed to get Libvert running on OS X. Sometime last year, things were changed in the Brew.io version of LibVert that caused you to no longer be able to open the information screen on VMs that you are running. The problem seems to be that the […]

Fixing Libvert on OS X

On Facebook a friend of mine put out the following request: Calling all 3D printer friends. Can you print up some visors for the doctors and nurses. There’s a plan somewhere of how to do it using a 2l bottle as the visor and the 3D printer bit as the […]

Facemasks for the NHS 

Every so often I update my CV, I am not a huge fan of Microsoft Word, or other Word Processors. Texmaker is a free open source LaTeX editor that works cross platform, on my Mac it makes generating my CV simpler. My CV is now stored in my GitHub account […]

LaTeX CV

This work from home thing means that I am working in the home office. Time to finish typing it up. And getting all the small things put into the right boxes etc.

Workbench photo Friday

I have got my PCB rule business card PCBs back from JLCPCB, so now to check everything works and build one up

PCB rule business card

This is now out of embargo 🙂 29th February 2020

Even more news.

Over on Facebook, Ed Vergalen is looking to sell a VideoRay Pro 4 Plus BASE ROV System for £29,950. Videoray Pro 4 Blueview sonar C130 Manipulator Hull Crawler Kit Lynn enhancing package Extended Tether Deployment System (TDS). Approximately 305 m (1,000 ft) Extra 300m Neutral Tether on reel Repair kit […]

Another ROV for sale

Following on from News…

Update on news…

The Mystery of Mc vs. Mac This page will attempt to solve the mystery of Mc versus Mac, the alphabetization of Mc, as well as the mystery of the raised c often used in Mc. Historically, Mac was a surname prefix for Irish or Scottish sons. Many people believe that […]

Scottish Last-names on computers

CARLA on Ubuntu via Team Viewer

It has been a while since I have tried getting CARLA to run. After doing fair amount of poking, and prodding including trying to compile Unreal Engine for use on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano; I was unable to get Unreal Engine running on the ARM® A57 architecture. Since then I […]

Trying again with CARLA, Installing such that it works!

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