Ramblings of a Teaching Fellow
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Starting a PhD
At the end of last year I officially became a PhD student at The University of Bath. In addition to my full time day job of being a Lecturer. I decided to do it a while ago, but it took a lot of form filling to actually get started. I will be researching the impact […]
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Dinosaur King Conversion (Pt. 3)
In the previous two parts I’ve shown the progress of my conversion of a Sega Dinosaur King into a NEO GEO MVS machine. In the previous part I finished with the wiring of the control panel. That just leaves the artwork. I had an idea of what I wanted and sketched it out. Olly Cotton […]
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Dinosaur King Conversion (Pt. 2)
In part one, detailed the first few steps of my conversion of a Sega Dinosaur King to a NEO GEO MVS machine. I left the story with an empty rebuilt cabinet. Time to add some internals. The only electronics I kept was the original CRT monitor, of course. It’s a 15KHz display so ideal for […]
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Dinosaur King Conversion (Pt. 1)
In September 2020, just before the start of what would be a full academic year under the Covid restrictions that would mean working from home and doing all my teaching remotely, I purchased a Sega Dinosaur King from ebay. The game is aimed at kids and involves using cards with a magnetic stripe to battle […]
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More PnP progress.
I’ve been doing a little more work on the pick and place machine recently. I have all the parts now and a test assembly had provided an updated to-do list. Top of that list is re-doing the re-work of the z-axis. I re-worked the initial design into something more refined. But a few of the […]
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Getting Serious about Lego
Over Christmas I discovered Lego Serious Play. This is not the typical brain storming tool, for which Lego is often used, but an approach to exposing and sharing knowledge/requirements/ideas. Instead of building models of physical things with the Lego blocks, you build metaphors, models of ideas. It’s rooted in the constructionist ideas of the likes […]
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21st Century Motoring
Just had the home charging point installed for the Nissan Leaf. Not that I expect to make that much use of it. I can charge for free at work and at the local supermarket. So that’s weekdays and weekends covered. It will only be when I’m away from work for a few days and doing […]
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A little maker project started.
I’ve been wanting to build a basic pick and place machine for a while. And I’ve finally made a start. So far I have the three axis platform working. It’s a bit of a Frankenstein affair as it’s based on a laser etcher that is only two axis. But in true maker fashion, I’ve hacked […]
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The latest part of my reboot.
This website has long been overdue a refresh. And I’ve finally got round to it. And to save myself a lot of pain, I’ve just used wordpress and picked a really simple theme. This is where I’ll put all the random stuff that does n’t really belong on facebook or linkedin.