Making a macro keyboard for photoshop shortcuts Short version.

I made a macro keypad using an Arduino Pro Micro in order to make editing images for my blog easier.

Little failures.

I've had a few little failures and handbrakes recently - these aren't the sort of thing that put me off, more the sort of things that make me curious. I've just made a camera shutter release for android which works for every phone except mine - I use an old Samsung S3 because it's really …

Android camera trigger build.

In which I build a shutter release for a mobile phone before realising that it works perfectly for every android phone except the Samsung S3 I use for filming.

Practical uses for a 3d printer.

Most of the time I don't use my 3D printer for the sort of flashy clever stuff that you usually see on youtube. Instead I regard it is a really quick way to fabricate brackets and stuff like that. If you need to quickly make a small weirdly shaped widget which won't be subjected to …

The hunt for non-crap tweezers.

I'm modifying a pair of fairly crap tweezers into a pair of totally adequate smd tweezers.

Making a booksafe.

I was nosing about in a thrift store when I came across this wonderful book. The moment I saw it sitting there in all of it's orangey goodness I knew that I had to make something with it. The fact that the book was in a free bin was also a deciding factor. It truly …

Prototyping an idea – RGB circadian alarm clock.

Prototyping an idea of a clock that changes colour rather than telling the time in order to tell what time of night it is.

Adding a headphone port to a CTK-50 keyboard.

A blog post in which I modify a cheap keyboard for quiet personal enjoyment and incidentally forget to mention that I am still alive.

PCB etching with photosensitive dry film – now working consistently.

This is how I make PCB's at home using photosensitive dry film etch resist.

PCB making – variably frustrating

I've been working with ATTINY13a chips just recently. The specific idea I'm talking about here is to make a UV exposure unit specifically targeted at lenses. I'm doing other shenanigans with TINY13's which I'll go into elsewhere. The basic idea is that lenses can get fungus strands growing in them, which in turn ruins the …