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Making a wooden business card case
This project was inspired by a friend who recently had some great businss cards made up based on a design my wife created. I decided that it would be cool to have a nice case to hold businss cards, and as it happens loyalty cards are usually the same size so it can do…
Bespoke picture frame to suit your space
Picture frames are easy enough to come by, but why settle for something which is close to what you want, when you can make something which is exactly right for your home. This is a relatively easy project, but can have a major impact because you get something which fits exactly into the space you have.…
How to make a mobile tool station
Become a workshop ninja with all your tools readily accessible and exactly where you need them.
Weekend project: custom case for Raspberry Pi camera
Last week I wrote about the one hour challenge I set myself to setup my raspberry pi with its new camera module and get it running as an IP camera along with my other 2 dedicated ones. This led naturally on to wanting it to be set up a little better than precariously balanced on…
DIY table saw
I wrote previously about a little project to turn my circular saw into a table saw. Last time I was just fixing the structure around the circular saw itself. Now I have a whole table up and running.
So I had to remove the safety guard…
As someone that spends a lot of time in my workshop, using tools and making things, these words echo in my memory: “Well I had to remove the safety guard to get a better angle…” Maybe my memory is unreliable, but that is how I remember my father explaining how he had caught his thumb…
The Maker’s Den – Converting a box room into a home office/electronics workbench
Having turned one of our rooms into a study for my wife, the box room is mine. You might suggest that it is a little extravagant to have a study each, but my wife’s study is a very personal space for her, and whilst she lets me use it to work from home, she does…
Custom shelving
The truth is that a study is incomplete until a copious amount of books can be unpacked onto shelves. In our rented house we had a few standalone bookshelves, but what is the point of owning a house if you don’t put up wall hung shelves?
Pan and Tilt webcam mount – Arduino powered
A long time ago I built a little pan and tilt mount from some scavenged electronics (a stepper motor from a printer and a worm drive from a cd player) I connected it via a parallel port and used darlington arrays and direct pin out of the parallel port to control the whole thing from…