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The thrifty engineer
May 7th
Reports of post-exam bliss have been exaggerated. The cancer-diagnosis indentation project is now in full swing, with the wind turbine gearing up (oh dear) as well. To clear the air and my mind ... a walk: First stop engineering department. Stuff bought: 2 servo motors, an ATMega microcontroller, 10m of mains cable, 3m of 3-phase AC ...
Scrimp, save and scavenge
Apr 17th
Working on this wind turbine project, Steve and myself have had a driving philosophy: let's scavenge it, borrow it, beg for it, find it, save it from the scrap heap and landfill. We hope our wind turbine is going to utilise as much scrap otherwise destined for landfill as possible. Consider it part environmental, part ...
Maths and art
Apr 7th
I am struck by the irony of my module choices for my final year of engineering. Yes, I took design methods, designing with composites, and biomimetics ... cool subjects, they were a lot of fun. But right now, with 14 days until my first exam (my masochistic desktop countdown timer tells me), I'm struck by just ...
A wind turbine remote control is born
Apr 4th
Taking a break from revision this evening to play with Arduino for a while, all in preparation for Blowing Nowhere. Blowing Nowhere is the new name for our remote-controlled wind turbine POV project, that we're taking to the Nowhere festival. In a nutshell, we're making a 1.5m diameter wind turbine, that will power arrays of LEDs on ...
Sci-fi Power Drill
Mar 31st
Who knew cutting out a circle from a sheet of nylon would be so friggin' difficult? (whilst preserving the circle that was cut out). I had to use this tool in the end: Whilst risking my thumbs during use, I reflected upon how just goddamn cool this tool looks. And scary, if someone else were to come ...
Innovation Design Engineering
Mar 31st
The birth of this website: portfolio, blog and all, was (and is) to guide me towards a artistic, techie, design-ful future life. I've just taken the first step on that road today. You see, I just recieved this email: " Congratulations! A letter has been sent to you today which offers you a place to study ...
SuperHappyDevClub
Feb 28th
An excellent evening spent tonight with the SuperHappyDevClub guys - the local Cambridge hackspace. Going along (cookies at the ready) gave me the impetus I needed to get started on a phenomena I've wanted to play with for a very long time - persistence of vision, or POV. Armed with my Arduino microcontroller and ten ...
Welcome to my blog
Jan 24th
Hello! Welcome to my portfolio-blog. I'm going to kick off the posting with a quick update on two projects I have just started. The first I cannot elaborate upon too much at this stage, being as it is shrouded in mystery at present. It will involve graphic design, concept sketches and story-boarding for a steam punk interactive ...