Carrying on from my last post, I didn’t want to lose momentum with the organisation. The last big cabinet of drawers made such a difference to the whole workshop that I wanted to do more! I’ve had a pile growing on one of my benches for a good while now and it needed sorting. Not […]
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So, there are two types of people in the world. Those for whom the shop is *for* their hobby, and those for whom the shop *is* the hobby. For the last six months at least I’ve definitely been in the latter group. However, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Last
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So, around April in 2022 I offered the first set of R2D2 lights that became known as the Astropixels. I wrote about them briefly a few months later in this post. Well, it seems that they’ve been popular. I’ve managed to keep the price down, and even got it down to £70 at times. This
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We’ve had a CNC for a number of years now, but its has always been a bit on the rubbish side. It wasn’t very rigid to say the least, with wobble in the Z axis being very pronounced. So earlier this year I found a UK company (IT Tech) doing a whole machinery kit that
Another hobby I’m involved in is making replica droids from Star Wars. I do this as part of the UK R2 Builders Club, which is part of a larger Droidbuilders UK club. We don’t just build them, but we also take them out to events to show them off, entertain people, and raise money for
One of the other things I like to do is help out at conventions. The other day I got a message from the person in charge of the Green Room asking if I could print something out they’d found on Thingiverse to store the tea bags and sugar in for the guests. Of course, I
Taking inspiration from an Evan and Katelyn video, we decided to have a little go at making bath bombs. This was mainly inspred when we heard the list of ingredients and already had all but 2 of them in our kitchen cupboard (Bargain!). We needed to make a bath bomb mould and courtesy of thingiverse,
One of the things I’ve been wanting for a while (besides a table saw, still trying to plan and see if I can fit one in the workshop!) is a router table. It’ll make a bunch of things a lot easier to do. I had a rollaway table/storage unit under the CNC that I built
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The recycling boxes always looked untidy just lined up next to the stairs to my garage, so I decided to do something about it. I’ve previously made some planters for Joy to use in the garden, so I figured I’d progress to something a little bigger and made a bench that could be used for
As mentioned in the last post, I like to play with the big power tools. I’m currently learning and experimenting with a large CNC router that I finally finished. A CNC router is controlled by a computer to finely move a spindle to cut away wood. It works on a similar principle to 3d printers,
