I made a macro keypad using an Arduino Pro Micro in order to make editing images for my blog easier.
Month: February 2021
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 … Continue reading Little failures.
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 … Continue reading Practical uses for a 3d printer.
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 … Continue reading Making a booksafe.
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.