Resistance is futile
Wearable technology / cosplay This project is an adaption of a project I found online and the full details can be found here https://www.instructables.com/Resistance-Is-Futile-How-to-Become-the-BORG/ As with many projects I adapted some of the steps and have listed them below. All Borg cosplay The printing of the main components I printed parts Borg arm 1, 2 and […]
3D Printing and painting
Over the last two years I have been working on developing my 3D printing painting skills. Coming from a position of never painted before I have watched many hours of YouTube videos on how to develop texture in painting. I am very pleased with how this one has turned out.
RPi Digital making at home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eVaVVSaeM&t=47s Since the 30th March 2020 the Raspberry Pi Foundation have been broadcasting a live show every Wednesday across the various social media platforms called Digital Making at home. The range of presentations has been amazing and there have been so many highlights for me. The videos make great resources and I would definitely recommend […]
A Year of Digital Making
2021 – A year of digital making January Euro Truck Simulator dashboard February Pico watering can
Raspberry Pi Pico Watering Can
Do I need to water my plants? The rationale behind this project was to design a project which could be built in school by students for under £15. I wanted to use a Raspberry Pi Pico, a sensor input and some form of output. I decided to go for a plant watering monitor using a […]
Adventures in Raspberry Pi Pico – part 1
The Raspberry Pi Pico was launched last month and I have been waiting until half term to have a serious ‘play’. I am not really going to create anything groundbreaking or revolutionary but am very interested in how I can use it in school. My first project looks at setting up RGB addressable LEDs and […]
3D printer maintenance tips
3D Printer Maintenance and cleaning I have found over the last four years of 3D printing that my printer only really exists in one of two states: Working really well and producing beautiful prints every single time or me hating it so much that I wish I had never bought one. 3D printers are complex […]
Euro Truck Simulator 2 Dashboard
As a big fan of both Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck simulator I wanted to build a physical dashboard that not only controlled the game but received real-time telemetry data back from the game. The final build uses both a Raspberry Pi Zero to read the server data from the game and an […]
Animal Crossing Fireworks
Last night was the first Animal Crossing New Horizons fireworks night in August and brought some exciting new game play to ACNH. As someone who is not a hard core gamer in any sense I have really enjoyed the 500+ hours spent on ACNH since Easter! There is a certain amount of daily work that […]
Mahjong Wind Indicator
About 25 years ago my in-laws taught me how to play Mahjong, recently we have started playing with our own kids. I was quite suprised to see their wind indicator was still a piece of scrappy paper that they must have made about 30 years ago. In the tradition of the MakerCupboard I decided to […]