Andrew de Quinceyadq

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Thermal transfer attempt #1

My first attempt was to transfer the following laser printout on Epson photopaper onto the piece of brass below. I folded the paper and stapled round the edges to keep the brass in place. I wasn't qui…

The Edinburgh Etch calculations

So, the calculations for the solution i've just created. I am the first to admit that the following may be absolute bollocks; although I was quite good at chemistry, its been a while since school... A…

All Hail the Edinburgh Etch

Behold! A bottle of the lemony/irony tasting nasty yellow/brown chemical known as the Edinburgh Etch! Here is my "lab", cunningly disguised as a bucket. I wore goggles and rubber gloves and everything…

Hardware resurrection of the N770

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been resurrecting the linux support for the nokia 770 internet tablet. I want to use it with my python PTP camera software as a highly portable control system for t…

Wait a moment...

I remember seeing some film industry bod on the TV recently saying that the new RealD 3d stuff was great because it couldn't be recorded in the cinema by the audience. However, the thought just struct…

here's lookin' at you, kid

here's lookin' at you, kid Originally uploaded by adq\uk I spent some time chasing this beastie round the room this lunchtime..

Easy custom shirt design/manufacturing website

I've just found this website. Its fantastic! It has a web based shirt designer where you can customise pretty much anything - material, buttons, contrasting button stiching, monograms, pockets.......…

PTP digital camera control

Woohoo - just uploaded some more of my archived code to a new project at http://code.google.com/p/pyptp/. This time it is my python PTP support library. Whats so good about this? Well, many digital ca…