Petrol Station Dot Matrix Display

We come from the school of thought that working surplus stuff might well be someone else’s refuse, but if it can be repurposed into something useful, then we’re generally up for the challenge. One of our members was able to recover some dot matrix signs which were...

Automated Hydroponics Enclosure

This project started out as a pile of old hardwood truss and framing timber from a house that was due to be demolished, the owners were giving away what was some nice quality wood hardwood(built back before cheap and light pine was the main goto material). Some of our...

Smart Picture Frame

When you have a modern resolution monitor that doesn’t work, but is in otherwise good physical condition, do you throw it away as e-waste? Not us, one of our members was in this situation, and after some searching online, found a replacement controller board, and now...

Arcade Game Table

So what do you do when you get a free table from someone online and an old computer screen? You strip off all the casing from the computer screen down to its raw components, take a circular saw to the table to cut out an opening for the screen to fit in, of course....
Capturing the beauty of mess and destruction

Capturing the beauty of mess and destruction

Sometimes there are things that happen in the world around us that look beautiful, or just plain cool. The controlled demolition of a building as the internal foundations collapse downwards. The time lapse of a flower bud growing, pushing up through the stem, going on...