Several months on and I have just received a Shumatech 350 at a bargain of a price! The Shumatech 550 has just been released so I suspect that there will be a few of these 350`s come up for sale. I`m really impressed with it, I need to mount it properly on a flexable arm [...]
I received my EasyPIC 6 dev board a few days ago and I`m thrilled with it. It really is a super slick bit of kit! Ease of use is just immense and I had it running and programming within about 5 minutes of plugging it in and installing MikroC.
Here is my vid of a [...]
A bit of an update. I`ve been doing some updates to my mill at the moment but I`m hoping I should have some time over the next week to get a first simple prototype built. Quite a bit to do yet.
Here is the clock frames assembled with the pillars and washers - camera phone so not the best quality.
There was an explosion on the forums a while ago with people making these little rocker engines. I couldn`t afford to spend much time on this project I just fancied having a go at the engine concept. It doesn`t look great, but runs just fine. It wasn`t running great in the video but seems to [...]
Not amazing, just my first attempt at using an LCD and to be honest, with MikroC library there isn`t much too it. I need an LCD on my next project so I thought I would give it a go on a working code that I had wrote. Please see my other vid for the version [...]
This is the first run of my Boxford 8″ Shaper that I have been trying to restore. I have converted the motor from the original 3ph to a single phase supply, re-made the drive pully which had chipped and finally cleaned and oiled as well as getting over some other mini hurdles! I got this [...]
This is totally pointless but again I`ve learnt a lot from it, specifically using functions.
It is based on the old Ball and Cup game - you know the one where you have to select which cup the ball is under. Basically, there are three buttons and the first row of leds lights to show [...]
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