I know I write about some odd ideas but this one is a good one believe me, so stick with me. Although what I’m trying to do may seem simple, once you start thinking about the whole concept behind it, the possibilities are incredible.
My idea involves the current craze of real time searching, inparticular Twitter. [...]
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A Rather Good Idea Involving Twitter
Posted in Tinkering, tagged Twitter, Twitter API on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Field Camera – Make Your Own
Posted in Tinkering, tagged Field Camera on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Heres a rather nice site talking you through making the perfect field camera.
Build Your Own Portable Trebuchet
Posted in Tinkering, Video, tagged portable trebuchet on August 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Steampunk Badges
Posted in Just For Fun, Tinkering, tagged badges, cogs, Steamounk on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I found a number of plastic cogs in one of my many workshop drawers of stuff which didn’t belong anywhere, not even my Meccano or Technic collections. They were ideal badge size though unfortunately they were very unrealistic looking due to their colour – bright orange.
Cracking open the acrylics I proceeded to paint them a [...]
Kite Photography
Posted in Ideas, Tinkering, tagged Kite Photography, Salisbury on April 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little over a year ago, myself and Ev attempted to launch a camera into the sky with the help of one of my kites. Unfortunately we were unsuccessful – you can read the write up here. We came away however with some really useful pointers mainly to do with the overall weight of the [...]
The Big Red Box
Posted in Tinkering, workshops on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Not only did I walk a box full of heavy metal 1 mile round the village and up Shrewton’s steepest hill (ok its the only hill but a hill is still a hill) but when I finally got home I put all the pieces together to produce one giant lockable red box.
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Solar Thermin
Posted in Tinkering on August 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In an attempt to learn the basics of electronics I hopped on the web and purchased a basic electronic kits where one of the projects was to make a Solar Thermin. This is a little musical toy which produces a variable note when sunlight shines on the solar panel. The talented ones amongst us are [...]
The Engineer’s Mobile Phone
Posted in Communication, Tinkering, tagged Engineer, Mobile, Phone on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As the Guild is spread of many miles, we need to be able to keep in touch. As our pneumatic messaging system is still at the planning stage, thoughts turn to a more modern form of communication.
Everyone pretty much owns a mobile phone and everyone pretty much has old mobile phones lying around the house. [...]
