Nikon DSLR to Lomo Biolam Microscope Adapter
The actual project I wanted to do was attach my Nikon D90 SLR to my Lomo Biolam microscope. However, I had to detour into fixing the microscope first, as described here. Once I had that working, the a…
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Restoring a 1977 USSR Lomo Biolam Microscope
"In Soviet Russia, Microscopes".. er wait. I inherited this from my dad. It has quite a few condenser attachments as well as a nice set of sample slides. Some research on its serial number (N773137) i…
Knitting Machine: Needle Movement Analysis
I had a look into how the needle is controlled by the carriage in this video (I've removed a few needles to help with the video). Obviously the yarn wouldn't actually pop up on top (it would be caught…
Knitting Machine Project
I've been interested in building a knitting machine for some time, and I've just got round to looking into it again. I found a few other projects in this area: - Knitic - this re-uses Brother electron…
My Wanhao Duplicator i3 Plus 3D Printer Upgrades
This is inspired by the "Prusa i3" range of 3D Printers. Even though its cheaper, this one still has a solid metal structure. I've heavily upgraded it: It would probably have been cheaper to simply bu…
New Project Items Arrived
A whole load of new project stuff arrived earlier today: - Steering Boot Set Bellow 38921. I don't actually have a car: I'm going to (ab)use this for a project. - Dixons Autocrat F3.5 75mm medium form…
Turn it Off and On Again
I've been doing a lot of interesting projects recently, so I decided to restart my blog. I wanted to keep the old articles, mainly for my own interest: However, I think things like the etched brass do…
Interactive fiction
Great! Finally found a decent IF interpreter for android: text fiction Now playing Anchorhead on my tablet. Really liking the SMS style interface, and it works really well with the android slidy keybo…
Mobile development on Android and iOS
I've been doing a spot of iOS and android development for some sample apps today, which I've not done for a while. TL/DR: Yuck, ObjectiveC is a horrible blast from the past. Yuck, Java is a horrible b…
MongoDb optimisation for scale
I redesigned the schema for one of our MongoDb clusters today. In doing so, I managed to reduce request times by 1.5 orders of magnitude! We're now sustaining request times of roughly 30ms. The first…