Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Transparency Grenade

tg-all

An interesting take on an important issue, built using an Arduino Nano. http://transparencygrenade.com/ Love the process shots and technical drawings.  

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Just a LED in a Tube

Orchid

As above, a single white LED placed into an aluminium tube hacksawed and filed at an angle. It’s quite nice, the light source could be completely hidden and the light only reveal what it projects onto. This gives me some ideas for future projects.

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Bonsai Pot 2

Melvyn-Friend-Technical-Sketches

I realise this isn’t going to happen as fast as I’d have liked. The workshop has been inundated with first year projects and the technicians stretched beyond capacity. I have never lathed before (apart from during the mini-me project which was a production line affair) so working out how to do it has been placed [...]

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Bonsai Pots

bonsai-pot-sketch

…in concrete. Something I have wanted to do for a while, and hopefully a little something I can offer at my degree show. All this done in 2 hours.   Sketch   Into Rhino. Preferred the more angular pot on the left.   Branding (to be laser cut and embedded into master, finished off with [...]

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