I got to spend yesterday at the IoT 2014 forum, in Cambridge, listening to some fantastic speakers and getting to meet lots of really interesting folk starting up, building businesses and engineering new technologies. Having made the epic move of developing a fresh business plan, and focusing solely on a...
The past 18 months have been hectic and pulled me further from my preferred forms of imaging then I'd have liked. Having adapted (for one reason or another) my studio into a lab-slash-workshop, I no longer have the space I would need for fashion or portrait photography (well, I could...
Much has been happening on the 3D printing front. A few delays in sourcing parts (as will be explained), but otherwise things are going smoothly. After some research and help from the donor of the seed parts, I chose the Ecksbot [http://blog.eckertech.com/] as the basis for my...
It's time to be a little mysterious... We're working on a brand new project; well two really, but both leading to a really cool new set of products. Can't say much about them, other than them being a fraction of the cost of the big industry player's products, and being...
Not quite the sexiest of topics, but an interesting one nonetheless. My work finds me at current designing and architecting conventional albeit highly reliable and fail-safe (literal failure of anything results in electrical and physical isolation/safety states) cabled systems. A combination of both electrical and pneumatic actuation, coupled with...
If your wife or partner frowns, mutters or gets a little more than angry when you bring a new project home, find something on eBay you *have to have* or when your copy of Wired arrives (whooot), then you might want to have a browser window with hardcore porn ready...