User:Iandickinson
| Iandickinson | |
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| Name | Ian Dickinson AKA Ian D |
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:
- Small hand turned pipe organ - Computerphile
- 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
- 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