This is a category set up to show all of the blogs I manage to write about things we have made from scratch, things I have repaired, or things I am either planning to make, or merely working through. It may include tips, tricks and advice, but mainly it’s a place to categorise making and fixing things from my wheelchair.
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This year, we were again planning to venture to the incredible Portmeirion Steampunk event, and we made a lot of preparations to do so. We prepared outfits, racing teapots, and hats. Sadly, due to both the weather and my health on the day, we were unable to go. I did, however, complete a rather rushed,…
This is my newest racing teapot, which will hopefully first be raced in 2024 at the Portmeirion Steampunk event. This is the third year we have recreationally built racing teapots for the Portmeirion event. The first year, we made a rather large single racing teapot, which was just a bit too cumbersome for the course….
So, sometime many months ago, we purchased a Tamiya Lunchbox. It’s primarily for Jacob, because he’s ‘not so much’ into the flying, robotics or teapot racing, as we are. I wanted him to have something fun, fast and durable to mess about with in remote parts of North Wales. The Tamiya Lunchbox is an RC…
It was Beachlab in Aberystwyth again recently, and we were extremely pleased to be invited back to show our robotics offerings among some really incredible roboticists. We first attended Beachlab:relocated in 2021 under a very strict, ticketed control system, because of Covid-19 (and rightly so). We were then invited back for 2022, but we could…
Firstly all of the major bolts are made of chocolate it seems, and they melted as soon as I threatened them with an Allen Key. I struggled for ages with stud removers, but I eventually resorted to drilling out the one super stubborn bolt in question and I managed to remove the servo.
On the 19th of June 2021, we visited Aberystwyth University to take part in their brilliant BeachLab:relocated robotics event. BeachLab is a fantastic event that is usually held at the Bandstand building on the promenade/seafront in Aberystwyth. It’s a venue that enjoys quite a lot of footfall/traffic from people out and about on a sunny June day, and it offers plenty of chance to engage and speak to the public.
Okay, so; I am rather fascinated with a lovely piece of NASA tech that has not long ago been launched into space, travelled a million miles from Earth to our Lagrange Point 2 (L2), and is now beginning to calibrate its primary mirror so that it may peer into light that has been travelling to us since the beginning of time. For our universe anyway.
Today has been an excellent day in many respects. Firstly because I managed to get outside again properly for the first time in a long, long while, and secondly because I finally flew a DJI Inspire 1 quadcopter that I have been repairing after buying it damaged last year.
So not long after completing our first lockdown robot and the fifth in our A.R.T.I series overall, we found we had enough spares to throw another bot together. So we did. This is A.R.T.I-6 and she was completed, start to finish (and working), in a single day.
We are currently sat watching NASA launch the Mars 2020 mission which includes the Perseverance Rover and the Ingenuity Helicopter. It seemed like the right time to write about our latest robot; A.R.T.I. 5.