TaW: Week 9 – Gadgeteer Temperature Logger
It gets cold in our office as for reasons unknown the AC unit appears to be binary; on as cold as possible or off, heat is an unknown concept to it. To that end, and to see how cold an erratic the temperature is in our office I threw together a .NET Gadgeteer based temperature […]
TaW: Week 8 – Dad’s Birthday Card
Unsurprisingly my Dad had a big part in shaping my life, he is a structural engineer by trade and has been running his own business for around 40 years now. My first day of school I was driven there on a crane (I shit you not!), I grew up in a workshop with a couple of […]
TaW: Week 7 – Dual Prototyping Board
Currently working on three things at once to be unveiled over the weekend but realised I needed MORE POWER and thus a second board, I threw together this board to host an Arduino, a Netduino with ECG shield and a breadboard. Made from a Patron XO Café box and a couple of bolts, there’s a hint […]
Controlling a Syma S107G with an Xbox 360 Controller
As a tie in to my No ‘Air Ambulance Challenge, a sponsored body wax for the local Air Ambulance charity, I’ve decided to upgrade my old project by swapping the RC car out for a Syma S107G. If you enjoyed this post, please donate a few quid or whatever you can here. It’s for a very good cause […]
TaW: Week 6 – Arduino Based Syma S107G Tx and Xbox 360 Controller Interface
After the last two TaW items have been less than successful, and as a last minute tie in to the No ‘Air Ambulance Challenge I’ve decided to upgrade one of my old projects. Rather than an RC car I’ve gone with a Syma S107G 3ch helicopter and standing in for the Netduino is an Arduino. I […]
TaW: Week 5 – UPS Cable
I’ve a few weeks to make up for due to the madness of the Air Ambulance challenge but here is the belated Thing for week 5, a UPS cable for my PC at work. I used a cable from one of my colleagues machines to get the pinout at the RJ45 end, cut a spare […]
TaW: Week 4 – RepRap Controller Board
I’ve been working on this for over a week and to be honest, failing. The driver boards I soldered at the Hackspace were a breeze and despite having the same soldering iron at home now I’m really struggling. I’m going to head to the space on Wednesday for open hack night, take my kit and […]
TaW: Week 3 – Dual Stepper Motor Controllers
After a trip to the Reading Hackspace and a few hours with one of the excellent soldering irons they have I’ve made short work of the two dual stepper motor controllers for my 3d printer. The only components missing are the drivers which are ESD sensitive so I’m fitting once the main controller board is complete […]
TaW: Week 2 – Modified Bag
Week two of the Thing a Week challenge is a simple but effective modification to my bag, the addition of a second strap to keep my bag in place while cycling. I’ve been looking for a decent bag for a while but stuck with this one as it’s yet to die or find one better, […]
{X} a {Y} per {Z}; Make, Thing, Week
At the start of every year there are things people embark on, more a new years hobby than resolution, like take a photo a day or go for a run each week. I hadn’t planned on joining in but found myself making a case for my tablet at the end of the first week and though, sod […]
