TLRN — A Wire-Supported Hanging Delta Robot
Here's a little teaser of a current project that I've been working on. If you take a delta robot and replace the parallel linkages with the a [...]
October 2013
September 2013
Shrimp-on-a-Shield
I've been describing Arduinos as a "gateway microcontroller" a lot while introducing them to new users. They're great to get started with, you build your first project include [...]
August 2013
CoffeeBot Monitoring with Arduino
So, after I described using an instrumentation amplifier to take strain gauge readings using an Arduino, what was all that theory for? To measure the amount of coffee [...]
June 2013
Reading Strain Gauge Scales with Arduino
One of the smaller projects that I took to Maker Faire last month was a strain gauge reading circuit for Arduino. While the Arduino in the demo setup [...]
May 2013
Perceptive Radio Build Pics
I'm sure you've seen the write up from Mudlark and the blog post from BBC R&D; about their new Perceptive Radio that localises content and adjusts playback characteristics [...]
April 2013
Doodlebots
Doodlebots are simple to construct drawing robots that create random coloured patterns as they vibrate around on a sheet of paper. While we definately didn't invent them (the [...]
February 2013
Clip-R-Pi
The Clip-R-Pi is a box for the Raspberry Pi computer. It is completely laser-cut from acrylic sheet, with integrated fastenings so it doesn't require any additional fixings, hardware [...]
Laser-Cut Elastic-Clipped Comb-Joints
During a makerday, I saw a someone struggling to put together a Raspberry Pi box that they'd laser cut, and were trying to hold together: two pieces [...]
January 2013
Second Lattice Hinge Samples
As part of my first week as the new Technician-in-Residence at DoES Liverpool I've found time to photograph the acrylic test samples. From the earlier posts, this second [...]
December 2012
Laser Cut Christmas Trees
I had half an hour at the end of the day at the DoES Liverpool makerspace the other day, so I had time to cut out christmas tree [...]