Building a great deck for typical Kiwi indoor-outdoor living is on every home-owner's list at some point. The deck we are building here is a fairly normal slatted timber deck less than one metre high. This article is an overview of general steps in building a deck and is intended as a broad illust...
In creating a fully automated target, with spring-back target buttons controlled by microprocessors, I was able to compare the workings of Arduino and PICAXE. Arduino and PICAXE are two very different devices—like comparing a revolver and a shotgun. There are smaller Arduinos and bigger PICAXE...
When designing a house, first build your giant shed where you can make joinery for the house-to-be. That was the thought of Julian Pirie. But he was to take a special route—he decided to model his barn-like “shed” on old-style English oak barns, typically housing Aston Martins in magazines p...
Without knowing electronics, it’s easy to tackle this small robot which demonstrates how a machine can be programmed to back off obstacles it hits. Mark Beckett helped to construct his daughter Hayley’s easy-to-make “HaloBOT” which is controlled by PICAXE. You can follow the building proce...
Restoring old motorbikes and cars is Dad’s passion. The garage is home to four of Dad’s prize beauties all lovingly semi-restored in various stages of TTI (Time Till Ignition). The projects in question are two cars: 1956 Wolseley 6/90 Series 1 and 1935 Hudson de Lux 8 (side-valve, straight-eig...
This project to make a stool was developed as a way of introducing students to a number of basic wood-bending and shaping techniques, whilst also giving experience in several useful applications of the router. The stool consists of two legs in the form of continuous steam-bent hoops or arches, whi...
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They come from everywhere to the A & P Showgrounds on Station Road in Pukekohe for the annual swap meet where the annual search for a bargain goes on. The grounds are crowded with cars and people, trailerloads of shed bits and pieces, parts by the vanload, stalls galore. Car parts are the theme of the event organised by the Chevrolet Enthusiasts Club Auckland but there’s an open welcome for all marques. At one stall, “Holden bumper, dark green, $50,” at another a grille for a Mark 2 Cortina (remember when?) for only $50.
An aspiring woodcarver who builds on a solid foundation of knowledge and technique will soon be creating impressive carvings. To demonstrate basic knowledge and techniques, we are going to follow the carving of a Tudor rose.
In the small town of Kaponga in South Taranaki, vintage cars are reborn. They emerge from the shed of Roy King in perfect splendour, with every detail down to the last washer and hose clip replicated exactly to its original spec—even if the car entered Roy’s shed as a burned-out wreck. Roy has become so well known as a veteran and vintage car restoration specialist that enthusiasts have sent him cars from the UK, Austria and Australia to restore, while he has rescued many himself, including a 1910 Benz, the only one in the world.
Rocket fans turn up to a famous Waikato farm when it’s on launch day. “Sky clear, range clear. Five, four, three, two, one.” It’s not quite the same as launch day at NASA but it is serious business when members of the New Zealand Rocketry Association gather from time to time at a farm near Taupiri and light the fuse, electrically speaking, on their fiery creations.
I have been involved with engineering ever since I can remember and I have an interest in motorcycles. My current model ’91 Harley Softail looks like the other thousands out there as you can only change so much with “bolt-on” products. So it was time to start fabricating my own parts and for that I would need a so-called English wheel machine to mould the tank, guards, seat pan etc. But buying such a machine was “off the budget” as they come with a hefty price tag. The next option was to build one.
Electroplating has a raft of applications for everyday items and is both an art and a science. Although based on several technologies and sciences, including chemistry, physics, chemical and electrical engineering, metallurgy, and perhaps others, it retains in some ways the aspects of an art, in which experience is the only teacher.