I’ve been busy preparing stuff for the exhibition in Dundee this week that ties up my Arts Council funded residency with DJCAD. The exhibition is called Innovation and Creative Development in Craft and runs from Thursday 10th June to Saturday 26th June in the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Old Hawkhill, Balfour Street, Dundee, DD1 [...]

Have made some progress today with the two next versions of Niftymitter:  The plan is to update the general PCB layout from 0.24/0.25, add the volume attenuator feature and improve the tuning interaction, and call this Niftymitter Guts, which will be v0.3. Then am working on two new sleeve designs: one for the home, called [...]

Gone for a taped construction on this one, while its still in development. Quite pleased with the form, would be good as a household radio for a kitchen or bathroom, but not so good portability wise. Will post up the layouts asap. As I said before, have had real trouble getting a decent board for [...]

Here’s what I’m thinking for the next version of Niftymitter – a bit of a rejig, with the sleeve rotated in relation to the contents so that one can slide things back and forth to gain access to the increased number of controls (tuning, volume, on/off). Signified here by pinboard pins.

Am making a start on a nifty radio receiver. First pics below: After two failed attempts with Maplins kits (my advice: don’ t bother), have hacked open an existing radio with basic controls: tuning, combined on/off and a volume, band select  (AM/FM) and an extending aeriel. To be packaged in a cardboard cube. Will keep [...]

Am gathering some info on the options for build-your-won CNC machines, with a view to perhaps building one for the studios. So far: DIYLILCNC, 1′ x 1′ x 2′ The bizarrely named BlackToe, 4′ x 8′ – license unclear Several dozen Instructables.. .. including Oomlout‘s excellent looking offering, 10″ x 14″ x 4″

Somewhat ironically, I was checking out Fab@home‘s new site this morning, and have been having trouble opening up their 3D models -Though supplied in Solidworks format, it is Solidworks 09, a version someway beyond my own, so about as useful to me as a bananaskin. Would have appreciated a choice of a more common format.. [...]

As you may have noticed, I’ve been spending some time here. The main reason, I won’t lie, is because I’ve been ill at home and its about the only project of my many that I can really do whilst sitting around in my dressing gown feeling slightly queasy. So that’s why. Why 3D now? In [...]

My favourite thing about the recent religious festival that is the first distribution of iPads has definitely been iFixit’s teardown which has been recorded meticulously and with amazing speed on their blog. If you don’t know, a teardown is basically a documentation of someone taking apart an object, normally for the purposes of hacking or [...]

As you may have noticed, I’ve given the site a much needed spring clean, hope this makes things a bit clearer, and colourful!