Over the past two years I've been working on my largest and most complicated electronics project yet. My work on the project has ebbed and flowed, but it's mostly finished. So I thought I'd start writing up some notes on it.
The initial inspiration was seeing Jeff Faust's Arduino controlled …
Here are a couple of the other ATtiny projects I've worked on. Only now just writing them up. They are both pretty simple.
The first was an Iron Man style "ARC reactor" (the circle light in his chest) that I made to go with my son's (shop bought) Iron Man …
For the …
In what is threatening to become a tradition, I made a Christmas ornament again this year. Last year I just made simple tree ornaments using sculpey and fimo.
This year things got a bit more involved, as I decided to make a musical model of the Robot Santa from Futurama …
Back in 2006 the new Battlestar Galactica series was going strong (and was still rather good). So it was almost inevitable (in hindsight) that someone would make a Cylon pumpkin for Halloween. That pumpkin was featured in a Halloween copy of Make magazine I bought and then held on to …
About a year ago I started on a project to make a temperature controlled nightlight. I was inspired by seeing these lovely LED lamps styled as mushrooms growing out of pieces of wood. Those mushrooms were made out of glass, which was somewhat beyond my skills. However I then saw …
I quite enjoy some casual macro photography and am always taking pictures of various projects (which are usually on the smaller scale). For those types of photos you ideally need good light and a steady hand. When you don't have good light then a tripod helps a lot, but a …
For some reason I got seized by the idea of creating some electronics for our Halloween costumes this year. In previous years I have gone as far as dying my hair green for Halloween, but that is just an evening's work. This year we were having a more sedate affair …
