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mill installation

By teanau Posted on November 11, 2013 Posted in making, metalwork No Comments Tagged with make

Within not much more than a sturdy drill press i squeezed a mill into my workshop. This is my cheap chinese ZX45 ( a rong fu 45 knock off)  at some point i will add a dro, this fellow has …

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hand made quad 405 amps

By teanau Posted on November 9, 2013 Posted in diy audio, making No Comments Tagged with amp, audio, diyaudio, hifi, make, quad

Quad not only made electrostatic speakers in the 70’s. They made a 100 watt class A amp specifically to drive them. Naturally it would be a crime to drive them with anything but this amp. thankfully the design has been …

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electric upright bass

By teanau Posted on November 9, 2013 Posted in diy audio, making No Comments Tagged with electronics, fabrication, inprogress, make

I ordered a carved neck on ebay and set about making the body, so far so good. remaining tweaks: add electrics, (simple little piezo pickups under the bridge) the bridge needs to be raised a little. and obviously a whole …

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industrial strength bed

By teanau Posted on November 8, 2013 Posted in carpentry, making No Comments Tagged with furniture, make, woodwork

My take on a modern bed assembled without the need of nails/ screws etc, sure the japanese woodworkers and the arts and crafts movement have been doing this for thousands of years. but did they use industrial truck straps? I …

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3d printing : mendelMax

By teanau Posted on November 8, 2013 Posted in electronics, making, metalwork, rapid prototype No Comments Tagged with 3dprinting, fabrication, make, manufacture, 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 …

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“Flashlight” for the blind

By teanau Posted on November 8, 2013 Posted in electronics, making No Comments Tagged with arduino, make, ping, ultrasonic

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 …

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Weather center

By teanau Posted on November 7, 2013 Posted in electronics, making No Comments Tagged with I2c, linux, make, python, science

simple little breadboard project combining a bunch of sensors with a raspberry pi and graphing the results.   The the sensors pictured are the bmp085 barometric pressure sensor and the HIH-6130 humidity sensor, both from sparkfun. Ive since figured out …

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weather station


small graph

A great little project, I started monitoring a range of sensors in my house and learnt a huge range of technologies and techniques along the way. raspberry pi, gpio, i2c, python, linux, and a nice little java graphing library to present the data with.
( the data still needs to be calibrated correctly )

Our Art Stash


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our friends have very generously given us art over the years, here is our collection, and their contact info.

Photography

small graph A selection of photos ive taken over the years.

Trans American Trail 2011

small graph 4000 miles of good old fashioned dirtbiking. Click the image to see Jon Meyers excellent documentation of the adventure.

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