22 NOVEMBER 2014
On our ecommerce shop we needed to be able to format customer addresses in the correct format and layout for the destination countries, to do this I have written a simple C# postal address parser to format the input address...
06 NOVEMBER 2014
On the 15th October 2014 I ordered a pair of Voltz 5300mAh 8.4v Stick Pack with Traxxas Connector NiMH batteries from www.modelsport.co.uk which they sent to me via Royal Mail at a cost of £76.90
When the batteries...
02 OCTOBER 2014
We have now purchased a Maynuo M9812 Programmable LED DC Electronic Load rated at 0-150V 0-30A 300W.
We had planned to buy a DC load for to use for testing battery drain, battery controllers and for our new solar data...
18 MAY 2014
Things have been very busy with both work and hobbies and there doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day to get all the planned projects finished and keep the blog up to date.
At the start of May my sole...
23 MARCH 2014
Alongside our electronic projects another long term hobby has been model making and more specifically model railways. We have had a model railway in our loft workshop for many years and it has always been a way of...
18 MARCH 2014
I am trying to get fit again after a long wet winter of not using my bike and I decided it was time to replace my old halogen bike lights with a modern LED system so we can go out for night time rides after work. My old...
24 FEBRUARY 2014
I have decided that I will no longer have any google adsense adverts on my blog or my virtual-swanage.co.uk website or on my YouTube videos via their monetise system.
In the past I have never had any complains about...
14 JANUARY 2014
While soldering boards today one of our Metcal SP200 solder stations stopped working with a quiet pop and some magic smoke* came from the case.
We removed the case of the power unit and found that the internal fuse had...
25 NOVEMBER 2013
This demo app allows the user to send Gcode commands to Mach 3 to control a CNC mill, lathe or other cnc hardware.
The application was made using Visual Studio 2013 and the demo app can be downloaded here.
First create...
17 AUGUST 2013
We recently had a hard drive failure on our Synology Diskstation NAS drive and the drive was making very nasty scratching noises so we decided to remove the lid and found that the hard drive heads had crashed into the platters...