While sat in HacMan this evening, Kat, Tamarisk, 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 […]
Maker
142 posts
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 […]
Tom and Jan of nbWaiouru have a really awesome thing on their boat called Empirbus, it is like a home automation system, but on a boat! Empirbus NXT is a new product line, based on more than 10 years experience in power distribution using Digital Switching. EmpirBus NXT is an […]
A while ago I looked at Solar Panels (Photo Voltaic) and did some research, (including reading a very hippy book [Electro smog 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 unusual in commercial PV installations, […]
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 […]
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 […]
I have got the first parts of my Tantillus 3D printer, I got the outside parts laser cut 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 […]
Instructables “21 Projects Guaranteed to Keep Your Kids Occupied This Weekend” is a free Kindle book, that I picked up to have a read of; there are some cool projects in it that would be worth a look at doing with the Cub Scouts 🙂 21 Projects Guaranteed to Keep […]
[toc]I have been looking around the internet for more ideas on Chording keyboards; and have come across more examples that I can use to refine my plan: The AgendA The AgendA is a British-designed organiser from the mid-80s. Its most striking feature is the microwriter keyboard. As if to encourage the use […]
According to Wikipedia: An intervalometer is a device which counts intervals of time. (Other names include interval meter and interval timer). Such devices commonly are used to signal, in accurate time intervals, the operation of some other device. For instance, an intervalometer might activate something every 30 seconds. In photography, intervalometers are used to trigger […]
A while ago I cam across the Stenograph system, and thought about making myself a Steno Keyboard or something smiler, looking into I found this: There are two types of keyboard used in the UK for STTRs (Speech to Text Reporter), the Palantype system and the Stenograph system. Unlike a QWERTY keyboard, […]
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 […]
I came accross this post on Planet.Termisoc.org: 10 rules I follow when building something new. This is a list of rules I try and follow when ever I have to build, design or program something. Some are clearly inspired by things other people have said but they have been tweaked a […]
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 […]
On my Day Zero List is the desire to learn to program; one of the things that people have been playing with in their down time here at Pennant Traning Systems is Project Euler: What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will […]
I have been playing with Microsoft Visio (My First ROV Visio File) to create a Drawing smiler to the one I found of BART. There are two things you may spot on my Schematic Diagram; My cunning use of Ethernet over CAT 5 for Data. I forgot to draw the lights on – ah […]
As said previously most people use PVC pipe for the hull construction, Looking round the internet for ideas I have come across Ian Leverington’s site ROV Robot Submariner, that sells a how to guide for building an Remotely Operated Vehicle, complete with on-board video camera for under £200 for £6.50; I have […]
One of the things I fancy doing with my free time; and to help me learn to program/built awesome things is to geek out is to try and build an ROV (Remotely Operated underwater Vehicle); I am not sure why the “U” runs away and hides; it could be to do with […]
Baby Interface Device (via http://matthewroy.com/bid/) is something that i found while looking at the Teensy Projects page, there were two links of interest, linking to simple flash games that can be used with my Affordable Accessible Mouse Project, Fisher-Price Online – some of these games will work with this thing […]
I have found a Europeen supplier of the Teensy Micro controler; Floris.cc sell it from the Netherlands, you can still get all the details on how to use it from PJRC.com I am using the Arduino IDE (from arduino.cc) and the Teensy Loader (from PJRC) this gives me the following pin […]
I have been reading online articles again, and came across The Utopia Open Source Braille Reader/Display aka ‘Audrey’ project, and as such decided to start writing about a project that I am working on currently. My mum works with a young man with special needs, who among other things has […]
I want to play with 3D Printing, but most of the software that I get on with better are Windows Only, I have tried to get on with Google SketchUp but I don’t get on well with it; While I have Windows 2008 R2 installed on my Macbook Pro Running […]