FangleTronics

I finally got round to taking the CNC machine out of it's box and rebuilding it (after 7 years of being in storage). This happened over the space of a year - mostly because I got caught up trying...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2022/11/cnc-rebuild-and-upgrades.html

Well, it's been a while since I posted and quite a lot has happened in the interim.  We have re-patriated to the UK (from California), moved house 3 times, and had another kid - a boy this time!...

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Since we made something fairly large and interesting for Carys' last birthday (our-home-doll-house ), we thought we'd best make something similar for Ffion's. Ffion is really into all things pink...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2012/05/birthday-vanity-table.html

I love to make things for people & I've found that kids birthdays are a fine excuse to take the time to make something epic - last year, for Carys' birthday, Lin and I made a millennium f...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2012/03/our-home-doll-house.html

Every Christmas, Lin makes a load of lovely presents for friends and family, and I run with the excuse that I'm too busy to make anything.  Well, this year, I thought it was about time I...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2012/01/homemade-christmas-presents.html

Any guesses as to what I've been up to?  It certainly looks a lot more dangerous than it really is.  The object on the left is an electronic ambulatory infusion pump used by medics.  The o...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/12/battery-pack-for-medical-device.html

I just realised that I haven't posted about the CNC machine for over a year! Judging by the blog, it looks like I failed and let it die a quiet death... but in reality it's been pretty great; it ...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/12/cnc-update.html

A while ago, as part of the bay area workshop weekend , Techliminal held a 3 hour "introduction to PCB layout" class instructed by Malcolm Knapp.  I'd tried using EAGLE  a year ago when I fi...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/11/techliminal-pcb-design-workshop.html

The girls have been going to summer "soccer" practice over at a local gymnasium  They've really been enjoying it and I thought it be fun to set up a goal at home for them to have a play with.  ...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/08/pvc-pipe-goal-posts.html

When I first moved to the US, I had about 5 cardboard boxes of stuff to my name. None of those boxes contained any furniture and so a very kind young lady lent me her futon so that I'd have s...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/05/from-futon-to-planter-boxes.html

A few weekends ago we popped into the city to meet up with a blogger friend of Lin's. She was working with Gever Tulley on a tinkering workshop.  We were a little late but caught the t...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/03/kid-made-go-kart.html

We started playing around with PVC piping at home quite some time ago (see the marshmallow gun  post) we quickly realised that it was a cheap and easy medium for building simple things (tak...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2011/03/pvc-pipe-dressing-up-rack.html

Finally... after a lot of work and learning, the CNC machine is up and running. I got the main machine finished and connected to a computer about a month ago, but I've been having trouble g...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/10/cnc-machine-build-part-iii-its-alive.html

Carys was turning six at the beginning of October and had recently become StarWars obsessed (we let them watch the original 3 movies a few weeks back and they loved them).  Lin and I like t...

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I bet you'd all thought I'd given up on this! Well, I just got a little sidetracked with a few other projects - the main one being the play-structure restoration and a load of garden "improve...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/08/cnc-machine-build-part-ii.html

We had the good fortune recently of being offered an old play-structure by a lovely couple who'd recently bought a house with it in the garden, but their kid was too old for it. They'd tried to...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/07/rescuing-cedarworks-swing-set.html

I've started a 'little' project that promises to take up most of my free time (what little there seems to be of it at the moment) - I've decided to build a CNC machine. To be honest, I've ha...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/06/cnc-machine-build-part-i.html

We found this little wine rack in the local thrift store (savers). Lin thought it'd be cool to turn it into a bed for the kids baby dolls. We bought an American Girl doll crib ages ago at a g...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/06/upcycling-wine-rack-to-doll-bed.html

It occurred to me whilst making some RGB nightlights for the kids that it'd be fun if they could make the lights change to whatever colour they wanted; kinda like the Philips LivingColors ...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/05/pixie-dust-bottles.html

During a trip to Savers I spotted this Disney princess car: I noticed the sensors in the head and tail lights, they looked like IR receivers . At first I thought the LED in the body of the car ...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/03/saving-disney-princess-remote.html

"ROLL UP! ROLL UP! TRY YOUR HAND AT THE AMAZING DR BOARDMAN'S COLOUR CONUNDRUM!" This is a little game I've been planning on making for quite some time. I finally got round to learning t...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/02/amazing-dr-boardmans-colour-conundrum.html

There are quite a few things I've wanted to try out and post about as I've been learning them (it seems like a good way to remember them!). For example, I have a half-written post on AVR ADC (ana...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/02/charlieplexed-leds.html

My kids love lights; flashlights, LEDs, house lights, pen-lights, light-up teddy bears, the northern lights... you name it, they love it. I've been playing around with RGB LEDs for another p...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/02/rgb-night-lights.html

I really enjoyed the process of making my first 'Jar-O-Fireflies ' but I was a little disappointed with the performance (i.e. the software), especially the obvious flicker when the lights were...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/02/jar-o-fireflies-mark-ii.html

I've finally realised one of my childhood dreams; I'm now the proud owner of a glow-in-the-dark wall - just don't tell the landlord! I've had some glow-in-the-dark paint knocking around f...

http://www.fangletronics.com/2010/01/glow-in-dark-sketch-wall-and-led-pens.html