Brighton mini maker faire 20120
I follow a lot of people that are into making things, and so the various maker faires around the US hit my timeline. I normally feel a pang of jealousy with these as I live in the UK, and have no real chance of attending. But this time had been different, this was a maker…
Rubber band gun – MODOTCHAO clone
I would love to claim that I designed my latest project, but all I did was find this video, and be inspired to try to copy the design. I have always been a fan of making things with mechanisms, and so the incredible collection of rubber band guns that ogg craft has designed and built…
Custom MakerGeek playing cards
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I have the best wife in the world. On this occasion her awesomeness is demonstrated through the medium of playing cards. A deck of cards designed by her just for me!
Rotating wine rack
Some time ago I blogged about using openSCAD do design a wine rack. Well I’ve finally finished the wine rack.
Android development – Unfortunately *your app* has stopped
So upfront I will admit that I am not one of life’s readers-of-instructions. I tend to skim through manuals and instructional pages and just get a sense of what I need to know then dive in and start pressing buttons.
Setting up a new development environment – Android
It’s been a long while since I was doing any personal coding projects and even longer since the last time I gave much thought to the development environment and tools that I would use. However, that time is upon me again…
Lessons from QCon Part 2 – Working Distributed
The team I work on is split over 3 time zones, with an Office in London, Bermuda and Vancouver. Giving us an 8 hour time different to work around.So I was interested by the distributed teams track at QCon and I attended a couple of sessions to pick up some ideas about being effective with…
Lessons from QCon: Part 1 – Sympathy with the Machine
At my recent trip to QCon London I had the opportunity to hear some great talks given by some really good speakers.
Getting some much needed inspiration – QCon London
This week I was fortunate enough to get the opportunity to go to a developer conference called QCon in London.Its a four day conference, but I was only able to go for the last 2 days. However that was more than enough to get a huge, (and much needed) dose of inspiration.