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I have made another thing. The fifth this month. This one has BB8 vibes.
25/05/2026

I have made another thing. The fifth this month. This one has BB8 vibes.

Not kites. Too busy making star wars droids. Here’s is four I have done.
16/05/2026

Not kites. Too busy making star wars droids. Here’s is four I have done.

Taking the first steps to 3d print parts for a project printer. Friend says just buy one ready made. Where is the fun in...
01/08/2024

Taking the first steps to 3d print parts for a project printer. Friend says just buy one ready made. Where is the fun in that ??
I am tuning settings to print accurate parts in ABS.
Did a test print for a 4wd hub cover made from scratch in solidworks. Also a rear camera mount. Designed also in CAD.
Fitted to the car nicely and drove away. I hope it stayed on.
4 years ago dodging Covid and sewing whales

A thought on raspberry pi zero series wifi enabled chips. They make great LED controllers. I thought of a WIFI enabled l...
07/06/2024

A thought on raspberry pi zero series wifi enabled chips. They make great LED controllers. I thought of a WIFI enabled lightweight controller for kite display at night..
A toolbox with power and a pi5 ‘server’ running a router for wifi, with multiple ‘slave’ pi zero attached to the kites receiving signal from the main in real time to control LED lightshow.
The larger pi uses owntone plugins to parse signal from the music to pulse signal to each kite individually kindve like Winamp!. No more pre programmed routines.
Cost of pre-made kits got me thinking. Could do 10 kites with controllers and LED all choreographed to doof doof for the cost of 1 or 2 kits.
You can control al this from a tablet running pi helper on the wifi from the toolbox.
Chuck a solar on top of the toolbox and you have a charger station for the pi led packs.

What you think.. Dean ?

I don’t post often anymore, however I reckon this one is worthy. The Bakelite take up lever on my pfaff gave up the ghos...
27/05/2024

I don’t post often anymore, however I reckon this one is worthy. The Bakelite take up lever on my pfaff gave up the ghost. So a little bid of CAD and some extrusion.. good for another 50 years ?

All it takes is a trip up the beach powered by a kite, to re-connect. Some great beaches up this way.
27/11/2023

All it takes is a trip up the beach powered by a kite, to re-connect. Some great beaches up this way.

Adelaide Kite Flyers at Kingston South Australia.
24/01/2023

Adelaide Kite Flyers at Kingston South Australia.

Night Flies make such a spectacular display. We were out flying with Elly Richie last night and against the night sky, t...
21/01/2022

Night Flies make such a spectacular display. We were out flying with Elly Richie last night and against the night sky, this eerie display looked like something from the bottom of the ocean!

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