We saw this fellow on the streets of York last weekend. He used a pedal-powered jigsaw to cut kids’ names as souvenirs. The kids could choose from several different wood colors. I was very impressed. It reminded me of Fred’s pedal-powered soap, which I recommend highly.
Here’s what the finished product looks like:
I went for a walk this morning from Foremarke school through Heath Wood after dropping off the kids.
There were some beautiful horse chestnut trees blooming along the path. Horse chestnuts are used to play a game called conkers. I found this nice description of the game.
The kids have had an interesting week; Sage [...]
I’ve been playing around with my Arduino recently. I’m not sure where the name came from, but River and I agreed that it was fun to say. Try it out, if you like.
Arduino is a tool for making computers that can sense and control more of the physical world than your desktop computer. [...]
I’ve been biking whenever I can recently and I decided I needed an ankle strap to keep my pants trousers out of the chain grease.
I came up with this solution:
We have a large stash of Queensland Collection Kathmandu Aran that I hope someday will turn into a sweater. So now I have a merino/silk/cashmere [...]
I’ve had a couple of crafty days recently. I bought a kit a while ago to build a robot called “Herbie the mousebot“. I finally got around to buying a new soldering iron.
Here are all the parts laid out before we started:
Herbie is very cleverly designed; the solder joints hold the structure together [...]
