Author: teanau
bike book case
I was taking the ferry to work 35 minutes each way with a little loitering at each end. as i hate dragging a bag around with me i ended up attaching this little device. then wrapping a rubber strap around …
wired multiple camera shutter release
A quick electronics job for work. we needed several cameras to sync very accurately, our usb remotes were not reliable enough so i rigged up a hard wired solution that removed any of the trigger timing ambiguity from the equation.
ongoing Quad electrostatic speaker repair
A good friend of mine Don kindly donated me these old beauties. Quad ESL-63 electrostatic speakers. Ive heard his and they sound incredible. Getting them serviced is a bit of an ordeal though. each speaker contains 4 electrostatic panels, each …
concept tabletop global data visualisation
The idea was to create an executive desktop tool/ toy for passively visualising geotagged metrics ie: GDP per capita. Presented as a translucent modern embossed globe with an array of rgb leds illuminating each region. It would contain its own …
Half the tale of a near space sojourn
And that was that… We received 3 updates via the spot tracking site. oddly the wind must have rotated 90 degrees from our calculations, which leading up to the launch consistently had the balloon traveling east. ours went south …
3d printing : mendelMax
A couple of years ago i decided it was time to get on board the whole 3d printing bandwagon. It appeared to have matured beyond the nasty little threaded rod prusa / mendel designs and hopefully the software had matured …
“Flashlight” for the blind
My grandfather was almost completely blind, so i rigged up this little device for him. The goal was to detect obstacles out to about 3 meters, and warn him as he approached them. I simply put a phone vibrator (he was …