The Oracle. I have found (after years of trialling, erroring and failure) that whenever I do anything, it’s a good idea to… Continue reading “The Oracle.”…
Creating Notions of Circular Time Well that was a disaster. The lockdown only lasted 2 or 3 weeks but the knock-on supply-chain issues meant I… Continue reading “Creating Notions of Circular Time”…
Lockdown Coding Well the inevitable happened, and NZ went back into lockdown again. We’ve managed to be Covid free apart from a… Continue reading “Lockdown Coding”…
On the shortcomings of laser-cutters They don’t do right-angles. That’s the only shortcoming as far as I’m aware (within the scope of what they’re actually… Continue reading “On the shortcomings of laser-cutters”…
Motors etc The basic mechanism is 2 x 8mm stainless-steel rods spun by two stepper motors. One rod is a lead-screw, which… Continue reading “Motors etc”…
Radical Frame Upgrade : T-Slottery. Something that has become abundantly clear is that wood-working is not one of my core-competencies, and that if the level… Continue reading “Radical Frame Upgrade : T-Slottery.”…
Wheels within Wheels I quite like the idea of those End of the World Mayan Calendars, that only went up to about 7700… Continue reading “Wheels within Wheels”…
Vague process, vague goals Goals: A) Make people go “Holy shit, wtf is that?” B) Then make them go “I could do that”… but… Continue reading “Vague process, vague goals”…
Starting in the middle again Confession: I’ve been working on this clock for about 2 months now… which has involved quite a lot of false-starts… Continue reading “Starting in the middle again”…