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| Various gadgets... |
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| In 2003 I realised that I will needed a good bench in my garage for making various models. So I made one. Also please note the flouriscent lights I fitted above. |
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| A full sheet of 17mm ply was screwed to the house supports. The fold-down benchtop was hinged to it. It needed to be fold-down, as my dad parks the car in the garage at night. |
| By adjusting the swing-out frames which support the bench-top before fixing them in, I was able to obtain a perfectly horizotal surface (notice the wooden stick balancing by itself). These swing-out frames make the bench strong enough for three people to sit on. |
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| While living in Japan in 2001, my host family asked me to build a dog house for their dog. So I did... |
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| Since I do a lot of work with car audio and electrical systems, I needed a good power supply to test 12V appliances. So I converted this regulated AT computer power supply to do the job. It has a 7.5A fuse to protect the supply in case of a short circuit. |
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| In 2005, I decided that I needed a better table in my room for doing university assignments and other projects. So I quickly designed one in Cobalt. |
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| The table was built and pre-assembled in the garage. It was then dissmantled and brought upstairs in parts. Here you see the 2" x 4" frame being put together, and my other half Krystal helping me clean the room... |
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| The table was than sealed in Polyurethane to make the chip-board waterproof. Underneath the table you can see my amp and pre-amp, which power two speakers hanging on the walls. |
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| It is not a small table - 3 m. by 1.6 m. overall, 0.7m. wide. All the space underneath it is empty, so I can roll around on the chair without hitting my legs on anything. Wacom tablets (bottom left) are AWESOME - lots better than a mouse once you get used to it. |
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| A small shelf props up the monitor and the tower. It also provides shelter from the sun for the keyboard and the Wacom tablet when not in use. |
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| A quick prototype (3 hours to make) of a seating arrangement to be used in a downhill racer. I'm glad I made it, as the ergonomic drawings done prior to the model proved to be wrong. |
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| A cool little gadget I developed for my car's security system. The box in the middle acts as the interface between 6 different modules (shown as smaller boxes) and other horns/switches etc. |
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| This is the circuit design for the relays, diodes and the wires coming in/out of the circuit. |
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| This is the circuit itself, shown here not fully developed. |
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| Once the circuit was complete, I designed and built a test-rig with various inputs and outputs, to check that the circuit functions just like I want it to. This was VERY worthwile, as I found a lot of mistakes in the original design. Note the AT power supply in action, as well as my old small table. |
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| This is the finished product of my "interface" before it was installed in my car. This unit allows me to remote start/stop my engine, put windows up and down, open the boot and arm/disarm the whole vehicle - with only TWO BUTTONS on the remote control! |
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