I’ve gained a lot of experience over the last few months with regards to Fusion 360, 3d printing, electronics and more besides. I thought I’d share some of those lessons. As Complex As You Make It The most important lesson, as with any project, is to have an idea of what you’re building from the… Read More »
A long while since the last post, more on that in an upcoming post titled “How Not To Build A Robot”, but thought I’d give an update on the general architecture that is manifesting for MacFeegle Prime. The Robot The robot will have at it’s core a Raspberry Pi, in its case it’ll be a… Read More »
As I’m about to start development of MacFeegle Prime in earnest I’ve started looking at how best to do this. I’ve long been a fan of Visual Studio Code and figured it would probably have a solution to my problem. Turns out it did! I’ve used JetBrains WebStorm in the distant past and one of… Read More »
This is definitely going to change with time but this is the current vague, but slowly solidifying, plan for MacFeegle Prime, my competitor for PiWars 2020! Concept This robot is heavily inspired by Johnny Five from Short Circuit. To that end, it’ll be tracked, have a pair of arms, a head, and shoulder mounted nerf… Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve posted here, I’ve fallen in to the trap of just posting to my Facebook page, but I have big news. I’m going to PiWars 2020! I put together a design and application for the event and I was accepted in to the intermediate category with my robot MacFeegle Prime!… Read More »
This is mostly a note to my future self for next time I give blood but if you don’t already and are able to do so, please also give blood! You know, to hospitals rather than in a jar as a gift… It’s the day after and you are pretty damn anxious, also your legs… Read More »
The site was migrated to SSDNodes last year as my previous host was becoming less reliable and I fancied something more versatile. I’ve not covered it on here but here is how my site runs, now with added HTTPS thanks to LetsEncrypt! A bit of history. This is a WordPress site and has been since it… Read More »
Just after Christmas I bought myself a new bass guitar, an Ibanez GSRM-20B in a walnut finish. It was supposed to have a dark stain that allowed the woods grain to shine through but it didn’t work out that way and was almost black. Now refinished using elbow grease and danish oil, I’m very happy… Read More »
If you see this message after visiting neave.engineering then DNS changes have successfully propagated! I’m moving hosts to SSD Nodes, this will give me more control over my site for the same price I was paying as well as a handy VPS to play with Docker!
I’ve been quiet on here for a while but anyone how follows me on Facebook will know I’ve not been idle, one of the things I’ve been working on is getting my Hictop 3DP-18 printer running stock Marlin Firmware. The main reason for doing this is that despite the Open Source basis for the Hictop Prusa… Read More »