I have been a bit lax on my Makevember posts; these were just quick prints I lobbed on the 3D Printer: bathtub boat (visual benchy) Duplo train joint The Duplo Train Joints are for MiniBoyGeek, the other part will appear once I have printed the rest of it.
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Another boat: I was trying to dial in a 3D printer, the blobs on the hull seem to be caused by buffer under-runs from the Raspberry Pi. In the last Makevember post, there were some strange shaped Duplo links, here they are in use:
A while ago I picked up these buttons for my Dr Who’s K-9 robot from AliExpress, Hobby Components have similar available online, The ones I purchased are SPDT with a 24 V DC incandescent bulb in them, regardless of the button colour they are all illuminated with a white incandescent […]
Many moons ago, before Seven Fields was built on, so I assume 1990s, My mum, Debbie McGaw took some photos of the area showing what it looked like at the time. These photos were for many years on show at Emmanuel URC Haydon Wick in Swindon. At some point the […]
A while back, I went on a Geek Walk to Bletchley Park, This time Tamarisk’s Uni Computing Society went for a Social. We didn’t catch up with them, but we went as a group anyway 🙂 Last time I thought it would be cool to make an Enigma Machine, this […]
On Boxing day, Tamarisk, MiniBoyGeek, and Granny went for a look round Warwick Castle, We also saw the Mill and Hydroelectricity plant on the river Avon
A fair while ago Swindon Makerspace started a group project called LogoBot, a cheap, expendable and extendable easy to build robot for playing with. Even longer ago I bought a MiroBot from kick-starter, it had lived in a box, and parts of it had got damaged. Tamarisk showed me and […]
We went to Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker, to be fair it is badly named… its got far too well signposted; the entire place is a maze or exhibit rooms, and displays showing an over view of life during its time as a bunker.
nbKawartha is on brokerage at Great Haywood Boat Sales. A mixture of random photos of nbKawartha: Photos from when she was last painted are here nbKawartha (bw# 50216) was built in 1992 by Jonathan Wilson, when we bought her she was called nbSteven. She is a 57ft (17.44 metres) Traditional […]
This is version one of a set of Left-hand Switches made for MiniBoyGeek’s Duplo Railway Yes there is already a version two waiting to print, with additional check rails and re-designed mechanism: You can find it on ThingiVerse here
On Saturday Tamarisk, MiniBoyGeek, Thinkl33t and I went to The MAD Museum in Stoke-on-Trent with Emily and Glen. We also found a nice little vegan coffee shop called Plantarium. Emily made Tamarisk and I a Flappity Bat for Christmas: Go look at her shop!
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have been looking at Bujo’s for a while; and I think that while most people who post photos of theirs on-line probably find it cathartic spending hours carefully drawing pretty pictures on every page and colouring them in, I feel that I would benefit from something more utilitarian. Also […]