Archive for the 'Projects' Category
Receiving weather satellite pictures in New Zealand – Part 3
July 4th, 2010The other two parts of this are available here: Part1 and here: Part2 Finally some results! But lets start with what I have done so far. Since my initial experiments with my scanner were somewhat successful and I had my new QFH antenna made and ready to go I just needed my Minikits weather satellite [...]
Receiving weather satellite pictures in New Zealand – Part 2
June 28th, 2010You may want to read part 1 of this story about receiving weather satellite pictures if you haven’t already. Now I will describe how I made a much neater QFH antenna to receive the satellite signals. My wooden one worked fine but it was not waterproof or particularly pretty or accurately made. So I decided [...]
Receiving weather satellite pictures in New Zealand – Part 1
June 27th, 2010This project came about after I started playing about a little more with my Uniden UBC93XLT scanner. This is a toy I got a wee while ago from Dick Smith Electronics. I hadn’t really done too much with it apart from the usual listening to various coastguard, airport and Police transmissions (the number of people [...]
Finishing Sophie’s rocking horse (before christmas – just)
December 25th, 2009Part one of the horse making is here: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/bb/2009/10/18/a-rocking-horse-for-sophie With time moving on I had to really move to get the rocking horse done. After protecting the foam with the tin foil I applied layers of fibreglass and polyester resin. I built up a nice, thick skin of glass all over the horse. Layers of [...]
A rocking horse for Sophie
October 18th, 2009Hmmm, almost Christmas again. Being someone who ‘makes stuff’ my sister asked if I was making something for Sophie for Christmas this year. I suggested a rocking horse. This is my attempt to do so. I don’t have much experience with horses. Probably the closest I have been is gluing two bits of paper together. [...]