In our current house we have no spare space for a desk so I thought a laptop tray would be a pretty hand alternative – and as it turns it was a good call since I’m using it right now. By this point I also have a few off cuts of wood lying around leftover … [Read more…]
After getting my hands on a farmhouse table that needed re-finishing I decided to knock up a pair of benches to go with it, thinking of the two-tone farmhouse style that’s pretty popular at the moment. So this project was to design and fabricate some benches. Tooling After some enthusiastic talk about DIY I’ve picked … [Read more…]
So my first post – ooh exciting! This also gives me an opportunity to demonstrate some larger modelling projects in OpenSCAD – but since I learnt to use OpenSCAD from Simon I will be leaving those tutorials to him. Right let’s get too it. This was actually my first woodworking project, a fairly simple TV … [Read more…]
The Idea behind TwitterMonitor will be access the public twitter feed, and listen for key words, these words will then be added to a list and at the end of a specified time frame hopefully then email a summary of the matching tweets to the user. So lets say you are interested in following updates … [Read more…]
So far i have introduced you to enough that with patience and practice you could make just about anything, however sometimes you want to work smarter not harder. To do this we will look at how to use OpenSCAD more like a programing language in order to do things a little smarter. Lets start with … [Read more…]
So so far we have talked about how to make some basic shapes in OpenSCAD, but if all you could do make was cubes, spheres and other simple shapes then what use would the program be. Ofcourse this isn’t all you can do, so lets start building up some usefull objects. So as an example … [Read more…]
OK so now that we can tell openSCAD to make basic shapes we now want to be able to move them around, rotate them and while we are at it any other transformations we can throw in at the same time. So lets start with a basic cylinder cylinder(h=10,r=5,$fn=30); now as you can see we … [Read more…]
So lets start with a few disclaimers, firstly open source software can have a very fast update rate, so things I write here while working now may not necessarily work in the future if something big changes in openSCAD. secondly I am running fedora 22, a version of Linux, at the moment so it may … [Read more…]
One thing that I have always found useful when working on a project is being able to visualise it, and any method that helps you do that, especially with larger/more complicated projects can be a big help. Now normally I would just jot down details in a note book for me, and just draw out … [Read more…]
Some old pictures I took a few months ago when Jupiter was quite bright in the sky. As you can see in the above picture a few of the moons are quite clearly visible, although Jupiter itself is quite over exposed (couldn’t get a shot of both the moons and Jupiter correctly exposed). After a … [Read more…]