The spreadsheet view below is a live update of the status of my projects. Links in the menu will take you to details for specific projects as they are written up.
Project | Status | Next tasks | Depends on |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lenovo T530 CM4 motherboard | Pile-of-parts | Volume estimation, board outline | |
| DaveNAS | Deployed | UPS integration | backup machine |
| Quad floor-standing monitors | Testing | Keyboard rest | time |
| Prusa i3 printer rebuild + enclosure | In progress | Print cooler design | time |
| K40 laser cutter rebuild | In progress | Motion control, HV safety, Cooling loop | time |
| AR sandbox | In progress | Projector setup, dummy system cal | time |
| GeekBox | Pile-of-parts | Internal frame design | |
| Reflow Oven | Pile-of-parts | Simplify design, make standalone | |
| Word Watch | PCB Design | Part placement | time |
| VP722 Conversion | In progress | Complete internals redesign | |
| Fume Extractor | Pile-of-parts | Locate filter media |
Project Pages
Desks are wasteful things – they collect junk and waste precious space with their fixed shape and hard-to-move bulkiness. Why not just hang some monitors on a stand, and get a nice comfortable chair? I’ll worry about the keyboard rest another day. I do a lot of CAD work as an electronics designer, and was …
So what is it? This project was born out of some sort of necessity, deep in me somewhere. I tried to get Project Omega (a configurable card-based electronics platform) off the ground, but the current open source compatible FPGAs were proving just too minimal to be sufficiently useful and I shelved the project until the …
Projects not listed above are still under heavy or early development, and will be detailed in the blog.
Latest Blog Entries
I was running some CAD and simulation jobs on my main machine and was shocked but then resigned as to how much memory was being …
Really bad picture of the stock machine before disassembly
I was looking around the storage rack in my main workshop, when I stumbled upon an old …
Despite being like really old (43!) according to the kids, I still know far more than them about Minecraft. I’m a foster carer and believe …
I like PartKeepr. I use it everyday. It is, however, not exactly trivial to install, and development has slowed to a crawl, so it no …
Super quick update to extol the virtues of some very good value side cutters I bought recently on a tip. Thanks to the Hackaday Circuit …
Pretty much anybody who does electronics prototyping needs to master reflow soldering at some point. There are a few ways to do it.
The simplest …
I picked up a Chinese K40 laser cutter a few years back. I had a little play with it, decided the software was abysmal, the …
Occasionally I get asked to build or modify boxes or prototyping platforms using open-source or off-the-shelf components.
There are multiple reasons to do this:
Sometimes a client …
Lots of timing-type instruments, such as frequency counters, AWGs and oscilloscopes have the option to be tied to an external frequency reference, most commonly 10 …
I’ve taken the opportunity during the latest COVID-19 lockdowns to shutdown my main workshop and rebuild from the ground up. The storage rack is in, …
I was thinking about prototyping electronics again, as I often do, and I was wondering about what might be optimal (as in most flexible) for …
I’ve been quiet. Very quiet. Building a business, caring for foster children, and other boring life things are all taking my time and energy. But …
Southampton Makerspace hosts a large A0 bed industrial laser cutter (An Epilog Legend 36EXT) that we bought a couple of years back from a company …
Don’t buy a new one – just fix it up!
Thermal design of Electronics is very important. Electronic parts get hot. The resistance of materials results …
Unit F, Liner’s Industrial Estate, Pitt Road, Southampton
Our Hackerspace, So Make It (Southampton Makerspace) was located in Unit K6 on the same industrial estate as …
My company Sobuildit Limited offers Electronic Design Services to other businesses and individuals. I will make a free quotation after discussing your technical needs, even …
Southampton Makerspace moved! We grew, our old unit K6 on Liner’s Industrial Estate got too pokey:
So we looked around. We took over unit F! This latest …
Grand opening 1st Feb, 2pm. Be there. Or don’t.
http://blog.somakeit.org.uk/2014/01/20/a-place-of-our-own/