Took a photo of this today, as I liked what it said on the side of the lorry:
7 January 2025 
3D Printer Overhaul
The 3D printer that I originally bought around 2014 was a Prusa i3 MK2. I chose the self build, as I wanted to know how the printer was constructed, and the instruction…
28 October 2024
Lighthouse Project
A recent commission was for a garden lighthouse. It had to be tall, and light up automatically when dark. This is the result, it is made from (mostly) 3mm ply which I…
25 September 2016
Update of Interactive Cow for MERL
Last week we added the ‘smell machine’ to the cow. This device is custom made for the cow, and circulates a single smell placed in a container inside the machine. The smell…
Motorised Route Roller
A project I have been working on lately is motorising a ‘route roller’, which is a device which allows you to carry and view an A4 route sheet when on your classic…
28 August 2016
Interactive Cow for MERL
The latest project I am working on with Kate is the interactive cow for MERL. As part of their rehang, they commissioned the building of an interactive cow which can be used…
30 July 2016
Flickering lamp
This example shows how to control a mains lamp using a 240V relay board and an Arduino Uno. The idea is to randomly flicker the light on and off, similar to an…
15 December 2015
ATTiny85 Programmer
The other project for this weekend was a really simple ATTiny85 programmer ‘shield’ for an Arduino Uno. This board fits on top of the Uno and effectively turns the Uno into a…
6 December 2015
Digital battery tester for 9 V battery
This weekend’s programme consisted of several new projects (battery tester, switching mains lights using a microcontroller, an ATTiny programmer and a touch-based instrument), but this post is just about the battery tester….
Driving a stepper motor with an ATTiny85
Tim Sunerton is currently a student in the Art Dept at The University of Reading and wanted to power a number of roller blinds with motors so that they would move up and down. He…
21 May 2015
Visual Programming for Arduino
ModKit have produced a visual programming environment for Arduino devices, based heavily upon the Scratch project at MIT. The ModKit Micro IDE uses the Scratch drag and drop interface for assembling simple programs…
10 April 2015
Sensory Labels
We had our showcase events last week at the British Museum in London, where our group of co-researchers from the Tower Project demonstrated their multisensory ‘labels’ to the public. The response from the…
19 February 2015