The DoES Tower – A Misuse of Trust and a 3D Printer
At Def Proc we were excited to hear that as a part of the Build Your Own exhibition. DoES was lent an Ultimaker 2 Extended 3D printer to kick start a [...]
Nerf Range and MFUKLC
Aside from the smaller "5-minute projects" that I do, I also like to do a bigger, display project each year to take to shows like MakerFaire UK and MakeFest Liverpool and [...]
Sparkfun Pro Micro ‘Serial Device Busy’
When I first started using them, I did have a little trouble uploading code to the Sparkfun Pro Micro, under Ubuntu 14.04LTS, using the Arduino IDE 1.6.8. The Pro Micro board [...]
It’s a Cracker
It seems like a kind of tradition to do a 5 minute project for Christmas. Last year's cheertree is back up in DoES Liverpool and has now been extended by MCQN [...]
A Fully Parametric Hob Knob
It's a user generate-able knob to operate a stove-top hob, rather than a fully configurable biscuit — sorry! When you move into new rented accommodation, there are all sorts of challenges [...]
Maker Faire 14 - Enchanted Toys
A much more stripped back stall for DoES Liverpool for this years event. As there seems to a bit of an Internet of Things (IoT) speciality at DoES, the table showed [...]
Building Doodlebots
Doodlebots are simple to construct drawing robots that create random coloured patterns as they vibrate around on a sheet of paper. I've run a couple of workshops on making doodlebots and [...]
Cheertree
I've previously had a “5 minute project” at Christmas time, where I made laser cut Christmas trees. The files are up on thingiverse so you can cut your own. This year's [...]
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 pair of parallel [...]
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 your first Arduino [...]
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 in the DoES [...]
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 was actually redundant [...]