Author: nickwit

I have found (after years of trialling, erroring and failure) that whenever I do anything, it’s a good idea to…

Well that was a disaster. The lockdown only lasted 2 or 3 weeks but the knock-on supply-chain issues meant I…

Well the inevitable happened, and NZ went back into lockdown again. We’ve managed to be Covid free apart from a…

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…

The basic mechanism is 2 x 8mm stainless-steel rods spun by two stepper motors. One rod is a lead-screw, which…

Something that has become abundantly clear is that wood-working is not one of my core-competencies, and that if the level…

I quite like the idea of those End of the World Mayan Calendars, that only went up to about 7700…

Goals: A) Make people go “Holy shit, wtf is that?” B) Then make them go “I could do that”… but…

Confession: I’ve been working on this clock for about 2 months now… which has involved quite a lot of false-starts…