User:Iandickinson

Iandickinson
Name	Ian Dickinson AKA Ian D
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Interests

• Electronics
• Mechanical music

Expertise

• Electronics
• Software
• Laser cutting

Projects

Current:

• Being a Trustee, helping with membership, laser cutter inductions and maintenance currently take up most of my spare time!

Completed:

• Allotment solar powered IoT sensor system - onionnet.uk
• Hackspace video for Computerphile - Computerphile
• Small hand turned pipe organ - Computerphile YouTube
• Talking Donations Bot - A speaking collection tin that sits in the comfy area and attempts to solicit money from visitors on a Wed Open Hack Night - flickr
• IoT connected Ouija board - Crapathon 2018 entry (2nd place) - Flickr
• Temperature replicator - Crapathon 2017 entry - Flickr
• Theremin playing robot - Crapathon 2015 entry (winner!) - YouTube
• Fire Pong (completed with other hackspace members) - Project:Fire_Pong - Hackaday - Computerphile - Magpi
• Barbot, various hardware components (completed with other hackspace members) - Project:BarBot - YouTube
• Turned various bowls on the wood lathe
• Nottingham Light Night 2016 - flickr
• Customised guitar - flickr
• Theremin based on Arduino Uno with one of these shields Open.Theremin.UNO
• Nixie tube clock using IN-19B tubes, so a bit different to your normal Nixie tube clock! - flickr - Hackaday
• CNC hole punch for creating piano rolls from midi files - YouTube - flickr
• A pigeon proof bird table - flickr
• Hard disk clock - YouTube
• Gieger counter - Arduino based using SI-3BG tube
• Pianola repair / restoration - Blog
• Reed organ restoration - unfortunately I had to sell this before I was allowed to get the pianola, but here it is finished YouTube

To do, one day:

• Electric motorbike conversion something like this one on Instructables
• Lightning detector - there's lots of designs on the internet, but I particularly like the construction of this one by Martyn Fuller http://www.techlib.com/electronics/lightningpics2.htm
• Aurora detector - an ambition is to see the Northern Lights one day! There's a design here http://aurorawatch.lancs.ac.uk/detectors/compass but I would adapt it to use a digital compass chip
• Tubular bells - midi controlled
• Keytar
• LED cube (8 x 8 x 8 or larger and RGB) - I made a 3 x 3 x 3 a while ago, but one day I plan to make a bigger one!
• Cloud chamber
• A gas flame thing - something like this http://youtu.be/atulGDiUUK8