Tag: Electronics

  • A CNC machine without power is little more than a very expensive lump of inanimate metal but supplying power that is appropriate, clean and safe is not entirely trivial. It is certainly possible to just buy a power supply that will get the machine going but if you want to get the most out of…

  • Workshop Lighting – LED Ribbon

    Workshop Lighting – LED Ribbon

    This is the second article on fitting and LED lighting solution in my workshop. The first article covered the light levels that I’m hoping to achieve. This article discusses LED ribbon which is a both cheap and easy to work with.

  • Workshop Lighting – Light Levels

    Workshop Lighting – Light Levels

    Over the last year I’ve been slowly building and outfitting my home workshop. The wiring is now done so it’s time to fit the lighting. My aim for the lighting is to bathe the whole shop in a cool white LED light which is also bright enough for filming. This is the first of a series…

  • Fixing a Toy Train

    Fixing a Toy Train

    Our daughter has a toy train (from ToysRUs) which she really enjoys playing with but the other day she threw it on the floor from her high chair and most of the noises it made suddenly stopped working (hmmm, was that really a bad thing?). Being the sort of person that can’t bare to see…